Singapore Government Hackers Love to Hack Teo En Ming's Computers, Smartphones, and Internet Online Accounts

[Ralf Mardorf]

Hi,

this planet needs activist who don't rethink their lives, who don't run
away. We need people who stand up for human rights. We've got enough
folks who don't care, run away and just care about a lion, shot by a
dentist, instead of taking care about something important.

Governments don't need a 0-day exploit, as long as users use (for
security purpose crappy) software such as Firefox. However, assumed you
consider a browser, e.g. Firefox as safe enough for some purpose, then
at least disable safe browsing, autocomplete options and all the phone
home stuff in by the preferences and in about:config, monitor with
Wireshark to ensure that no phone home gets reactivated. Don't install
software without knowing it, by default Ardour, Atom Editor, Sylpheed
and for sure much more apps at least do a harmless phone home, that in
combination with additional communication could unintended become
dangerous for an activist.

How do you handle openPGP? Naive usage of openPGP could render it
useless.

Be aware that in some nations, I guess e.g. Great Britain, usage of
openPGP could cause legal issues.

I'm not an expert in those things, since I've got good luck to live in
Germany. I had trouble when I was young, but the law changed much in a
positive way, so this unlikely could happen again.

However, activist should consider to send such security request to
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users it's a
distro used by activists for e.g. publishing and to
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
were you likely will meet a few people interested in freedom of speech
and security for activists.

Regards,
Ralf