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Cherie Wong 王卓妍


15 Mar, 12 tweets, 2 min read
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I should start a series about the life of a CCP dissident, about the weird shit we do to proactively protect ourselves

Tip 1: carefully frame your photographs so it doesn’t show the structures so people can’t map where you are
Tip 2: never ever post live updates at events / tag locations.

That’s honestly the most underrated self protection for people on social media ^^^
Tip 3: Delete photos of your friends, loved ones on all feeds.

Make everything private —

Facebook: friends list, past post, other friends’ posts - make them all only viewable by you

Twitter/IG: can be private account or make a new alt account for fam friends

Tip 4: Remind your friends family to not tag you on social media. (Or better yet, make yourself untaggable on Facebook/IG)

Tip 5: (this should be higher up but oops) use aliases for your personal accounts if possible
Tip 6: Try to walk on streets that are against the traffic, loop around a couple blocks before going into the building you’re going into.
Tip 7: Have various phones for various purposes. One for personal, one for work, one for apps that are “unsafe”, one foreign phone for oversea calls.
Tip 8: Use aliases & Google phone numbers on delivery services and online shopping.
Tip 9: while attending a protest cover our hair, eyes, face, clothing to disguise ourselves. Have a change of clothing for after the protest.

Pro tip: bring an extra bag, to switch bags when leaving the protest.
Tip 10: practice good cyber security

Changing passwords & login regularly.
Use different people for each website/login.
Use VPN.
Don’t connect to free wifi, ever.
I don’t think any other tip quite beats this one.

Tip 11: before leaving home, placing chalk marks, tiny pieces of papers, auto-pencil lead at various spots in the entry way

If any of these markers are out of place, I know someone else has been in my place.
Tip 12: Setting up alternative routes to leave my residence & go home after a protest.

Finding safe houses between protest site & my home, in case I need to lay low for a couple of hours.
The whole point is... no one should have to live like this.

And the only way forwards is international shift on policy and strategic collab against authoritarian regimes.

Intelligence, nat sec, surveillance, diasporic-activism, cyberspace, community influence ALL go in "

 

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I have friends who put "we are on vacation" on their Facebook page.

 

[freyasman]

Street Smarts 101 To Avoid A Mugging, Assault or Worse - Prepared Gun Owners

If you operate or travel in any urban or suburban area, you will encounter street beggars. Street beggars are a security threat because, more often than not, the average panhandler has mental problems, chemical abuse issues, or both. This makes the average panhandler erratic, unpredictable, and...

preparedgunowners.com

 

[freyasman]

A Burglarâs Universal Search Pattern â How a Burglar Robs Your Home in 8 Minutes - Apartment Prepper

There are a lot of things that a person can do in 8 minutes. For example, wash the dishes, make a sandwich, check email, or make a cup of coffee. Eight minutes is all a burglar needs to rob your home. That’s pretty fast considering this is a new environment for him, because all homes

apartmentprepper.com

 

[freyasman]

Street robberies and you - The Basics - AR15.COM

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The classic.

 

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[freyasman]

Dark Arts for Good Guys: Break on Through to the other side

blog about getting out of bad situations

straightforwardinacrookedworld.blogspot.com

"Dark Arts for Good Guys: Break on Through to the other side

One of the best weapons for getting out of a crisis isn't necessarily a gun. A decent size vehicle, even one that may not run so fantastic has more versatility and overall practical use than a pistol...not that you can't have both of course.

Faced with breaching a road block made from stationary vehicles a car makes a very serviceable battering ram. But like everything, there is a right way and a wrong way. Do it the right way and you not only surprise everyone, but you may also disable a few of the bad guys cars along the way. It just won't won't be in show room condition afterwards.

Do it wrong and you're gonna have a bad case of whiplash from the impact and a bloody nose from the airbag for the next thirty seconds until someone rearranges your school girl beauty with a magazine full of copper.






So first things first: Hands on the wheel. Just like the old man said, hands at ten and two or at nine and three.

Why?

Should the airbag deploy while you ram through the barricade your hands are going to be knocked away from the steering wheel in approximately 60-80 milliseconds after the first moment of vehicle contact. When your hands are at 10/2 or 9/3 they get knocked back and out of the way, but not into you. This allows you to quickly recover and get back on the wheel.

If you hands are in the 12 O'clock position when the airbag is you're going to break your nose, probably some fingers and maybe your face altogether. Why? Your hand is between the rapidly deploying airbag and your face. And airbags impact with some 200lbs of force, so instead of getting a face full of polyester goodness you get your own fist flying at you like Mike Tyson.

This applies on the beltway just as much as an evac out of Panama.

Your Fist+Your Face+Physics=Not good.

Ram through a barricade correctly and there is little likelihood that your airbag will actually deploy. Airbags are designed to open in frontal and near-frontal collisions that are of a severe nature. Think striking a parked car of similar size across the full front of each vehicle.





















So how fast do you need to be going when you hit the bad guys cars to break through?

Between 35-45 mph is best when you make initial impact. Once you ram keep on the accelerator to force your car through and push the barricading cars to the side.But what keeps the airbags from going off?

If you try to ram the center of a broad sided car for example you displace too much force over too wide an area (essentially fighting the entire weight and body of the other car). This is where the airbag sensors read as you essentially hitting something akin to a brick wall and deploy.

The other car will move, but not out of the way. And along with deploying the airbags, it may also disable your engine temporarily or permanently. Preventing you from getting out of the kill zone and leaving you at its door step.

However you can force barricading vehicles out of your way, you just have to aim for the right targets.

General rule of thumb: Aim your car's headlight for the center of the tire of the car in front of you.

The reason it's unlikely airbags deploy here is because while it may look like you are trying to move two cars out of the way, you are actually only forcing away 1/2 of each car, and thus they are movable.

In most cases the people who set up road blocks are not use to having them breached, so they tend to park cars front to rear. Generally, its the rear of cars that are the lighter half and they will move first and farther out of your way.

As you approach a barricade at around 50 or so feet out brake and drop your speed to around 40 mph but no lower!!! At the moment right before impact floor it and stay on it, even though your mind is going to want to brake at the moment of impact. I can not stress this enough..... Don't!

You need every bit of inertia to force your way through and keep going.

At impact the other cars will start moving out of the way. Since these vehicles are stationary there will be resistance, hence the holding down of the accelerator. Tires are going to be squealing (yours) and metal crunching and grinding (everyones), but they will move out of your way.















As you force your way through the cars may try to momentarily drag along side. This won't last more than a split second. If you are fortunate and these are the bad guys only vehicles you may luck out and blow out one or two of their tires in the process.

You are creating an open wound the barricade that allows you and anyone else behind you to follow.Push on through and get out of the kill zone.

Your car may cough an sputter but, as long as its moving you keep moving until it quits or you are a safe enough distance away to abandon it.

The key things to remember:

• Hands are ten and two or nine and three.
• Headlight is your front sight, center of the tire is your target.
• Approach at about 50-55mph
• Brake to 40ish mph at about 50 feet out
• Accelerate right before impact and all the way through
• Do not brake
• Do not brake
• Pray

Special thanks to Matchbox for their five pack for $5.00 in making this posting possible."

 

[freyasman]

Virtual kidnapping scheme leaves Houston mother worried about son's safety

The FBI is warning Americans to beware of “virtual kidnapping,” a decades-old extortion scheme becoming increasingly common and sophisticated.

www.click2houston.com

From the link;
"On Monday, "Jenn" was at work when she answered a call from a Houston area code.

“The first thing I hear is someone crying, saying ‘Mom, please help me, they got me,’ Jenn said. It sounded like her adult son.

“Then another man got on the phone and said, ‘Listen, this is what you’re going to do,’ Jenn said. “And he’s yelling at me, ‘Keep your phone to your ear, or your son is going to die.’”

Jenn told her boss she had a family emergency and stepped out of the office. The apparent kidnapper demanded $5,000 in exchange for her son.

“The scammers attempt to keep victims on the phone so they can’t verify their loved ones’ whereabouts or contact law enforcement,” the FBI said in a news release. “The callers are always in a hurry, and the ransom demand is usually a wire payment.”

Jenn rushed to the nearest Chase bank and emptied her checking account, but also alerted her husband using a second phone.

“I could hear them doing something to this person who I thought was my son,” Jenn said. “In the background, they’re hurting him.”

Just before Jenn wired the money, her son texted: “Don’t listen to anybody. I’m safe. Safe. Safe. At work. Don’t go anywhere. I’m safe.”

“R u OK?” Jenn asked. “Yes,” her son texted, along with a photo as proof.

“I love you so much,” Jenn wrote back. “I love you more,” her son responded.

“Many victims do not report the crime,” the FBI said. “Either because they are embarrassed, afraid or because they don’t consider the financial loss to be significant.”

The phone numbers used in the scheme are usually untraceable. It is nearly impossible to track down the criminal."

A particularly effective variation of this is when they have stolen the phone; they snatch it off a table, or pick-pocket it, and make the calls from the "victim's" phone, making the threat seem more credible, as well as making verification more difficult.

 

[freyasman]