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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 "