Federal Workers Using Encryption To Organize Against President Trump

The Swamp strikes back:

Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking for other, protected ways to push back against the new administration’s agenda.

Whether inside the Environmental Protection Agency, within the Foreign Service, on the edges of the Labor Department or beyond, employees are using new technology as well as more old-fashioned approaches — such as private face-to-face meetings — to organize letters, talk strategy, or contact media outlets and other groups to express their dissent.

The goal is to get their message across while not violating any rules covering workplace communications, which can be monitored by the government and could potentially get them fired.

When you first start trying to fly under the radar, it is tempting to search out all the tools available to conceal your identity, and try to cloak yourself so nobody can find you. But those tools create signatures that can be filtered out from the vast streams of data flowing through the system, and that can lead people who otherwise might not even notice you to suddenly take an intense interest, even if they are not sure why.

These morons are now sending encrypted data across networks in Washington DC, where espionage is of intense concern. Others are using unregistered burner phones, which probably send signals over networks that note their unregistered status, triangulate, track, and flag if some specific pattern shows up, like frequent use near government offices, use in locations that regularly see one-off use of such phones as if someone is too paranoid to use the same burner twice, short calls with a place and time for a meet, and so on. Many of these people might never have come to anyone’s attention if a little window didn’t pop on some desk jockey’s screen, highlighting an unusual circumstance picked up in the mass data.

If President Trump’s team is smart, it will seek access to those darker corners where such intelligence is stored, because it is amassing as we speak. If that data can be used to target conservatives, it should now be used to target liberals. There is an enemies list out there like nothing any nation has ever amassed.

Given we are heading into chaos, do unto others before others do unto you.

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