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It sounds like boring jargon but a social problem can’t have technical solutions. We may trust a piece of software one day, but some day they may sell it or give it to feds or whatever, or it was compromised from the beginning like Tor. And then there’s always the problem of needing to enter the Matrix in order to pull people out of it.
We aren’t asking for blind support for software but rather a commitment for transparent open source software that can’t just be given to the feds.
I guess I was trying to say that I haven’t seen a way to guarantee such a thing, and that it would probably involve some IRL security/accountability measures with an organization
There’s no technical solution to social problems, but not all of the problems we need to solve are social problems. Technology can serve as a catalyst. Technology can serve as a force multiplier.
The AK-47 didn’t bring about communism, but it played an important role in the struggle.
Another thing that’s important to consider is that the primary task which Leftists of all tendencies face today is organizing the proletariat. There is no such thing as an app that will bring us Communism, but there is also no such thing as a modern organization without IT infrastructure.
A lot of small groups (and even some large ones) will outsource these responsibilities to Google, Facebook, Slack, etc. but this is a trade-off with many limitations and risks involved. If you’re running a campaign to guillotine Mark Zuckerburg, it is not going to survive very long on Facebook. If you draw the ire of the Feds, these platforms will happily comply with warrants and subpoenas without anybody in your organization being able to intervene or sound the alarm. They also have the power to cripple your organization simply by denying service.
On the other hand, you don’t want to give the first nerd who shows up to an organizer meeting the keys to the castle either. It has to be somebody who can absolutely be trusted.
I try to use freeer software whenever I can but it also makes for pretty delicious looking honey pots
It seems like we need a vanguard to push this forward :libre-vanguard:
I actually tried joining chapo.chat on Matrix before but for some reason couldn’t so I’m gonna send you my username to invite me.
I sure am glad I did! Also crosspost it to c/technology cuz c/libre only has about 300 members.
Before you fight the man, teach me how to use nordvpn
You’re never going to have a socialist controlled alternative to social media or whatever. I do think in terms of actual organizing there needs to be investment in “socialist developed software” and hardware that is transparent and understood so eavesdropping private communication is harder for governments. You can never trust non-socialist developed software, just because it is dressed up in “privacy” and “internet freedom” language. That’s insanely difficult though considering commodity CPUs even have things like Intel Management Engine which is a black box with potential vulnerabilities and backdoors. But something practical could probably be developed for special use by organizers. Like a radio phone that has in-house hardware and an in-house operating system based on Linux or built from the ground up. Anything that receives constant patches and stuff like mainline Linux wouldn’t do in life-or-death type situation though, because it would take too long to review new patches.
I was posting about this the other day. I was thinking about protest communication but I was thinking about the same kind of thing!
It would probably require winning over a bunch of people at universities and companies to help with their knowledge and access to stuff. But that kind of thing can’t be public 🤣.
