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#Activist charged with felony after giving border agent #DuressCode that wiped his phone
The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.
Ryan Whitwam – Jul 27, 2026
"In early 2025, Atlanta resident #SamuelTunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version of Android called #GrapheneOS. Rather than hand over his data, Tunick used a clever feature of the software to delete everything. Now, he’s facing federal charges.
"The first hearing in this case happened last week, according to The Guardian, during which government attorneys and agents claimed that Tunick was subjected to a standard secondary interrogation at an international airport. During that encounter, agents were 'looking for anything that’s prohibited.' However, Tunick’s legal team alleges he was targeted for his #activism.
"Tunick was involved with a group called #DefendTheAtlanta Forest, which opposed the construction of an enormous law enforcement training facility in the area often known as #CopCity. What Tunick didn’t know, according to his lawyers, was that he’d been placed on a watch list for his actions and that Customs and Border Protection had discussed over email plans to detain him upon his arrival back in the US for 'suspected terrorism activities.'
"During the interrogation, #CBP agents told Tunick they wanted to search his phone for evidence of child sexual abuse, and if he didn’t unlock the device, it would be confiscated. The government has long asserted broad authority to examine and seize electronic devices at the border for virtually any reason. Tunick claims he was never read his rights and requested legal counsel several times, but the requests were denied."
#Fascism #DefundCBP #DefundICE #HomelandInsecurity #USPol #SilencingDissent #StopCopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DefendTheForest
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#Activist charged with felony after giving border agent #DuressCode that wiped his phone
The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.
Ryan Whitwam – Jul 27, 2026
"In early 2025, Atlanta resident #SamuelTunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version of Android called #GrapheneOS. Rather than hand over his data, Tunick used a clever feature of the software to delete everything. Now, he’s facing federal charges.
"The first hearing in this case happened last week, according to The Guardian, during which government attorneys and agents claimed that Tunick was subjected to a standard secondary interrogation at an international airport. During that encounter, agents were 'looking for anything that’s prohibited.' However, Tunick’s legal team alleges he was targeted for his #activism.
"Tunick was involved with a group called #DefendTheAtlanta Forest, which opposed the construction of an enormous law enforcement training facility in the area often known as #CopCity. What Tunick didn’t know, according to his lawyers, was that he’d been placed on a watch list for his actions and that Customs and Border Protection had discussed over email plans to detain him upon his arrival back in the US for 'suspected terrorism activities.'
"During the interrogation, #CBP agents told Tunick they wanted to search his phone for evidence of child sexual abuse, and if he didn’t unlock the device, it would be confiscated. The government has long asserted broad authority to examine and seize electronic devices at the border for virtually any reason. Tunick claims he was never read his rights and requested legal counsel several times, but the requests were denied."
#Fascism #DefundCBP #DefundICE #HomelandInsecurity #USPol #SilencingDissent #StopCopCity #StopCopCitiesEverywhere #DefendTheForest
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Concerning the recent case where the Gestapo charged someone with some kind of bullshit destroying evidence charge for wiping their own phone to keep CBP out of it at the airport:
The person being charged for feeding CBP a duress passphrase that wiped their phone in CBP's hands did the right thing and depending on what was on that phone may have kept others out of jail or even prison.
The rules in this situation are those of solidarity, and those of cyber warfare.
CBP is lucky a wiped phone is all they got. This could have been a cheap burnphone "encrypted" with a weak passphrase (1234 maybe?), and some strong ransomware.
Flash drives can be fun too.
Some years ago, someone near Boston set their heart on some flash drive fun. They got some cheap flash drives, loaded them up right nice, then salted the parking lot of a police station with the flash drives. The department in question was that of one of the suburbs near Boston, not Boston PD itself. All it took was ONE cop finding one of the flash drives and plugging it into his work computer. The whole department was botted, they had to pay ransom to Russian organized crime to get back everything possibly from their warrants to their payroll.
This was just flash drives found on the ground, not flash drives or a phone forcibly stolen from an opponent who had time to prepare for an attack.
Yes the Enemy can bring charges for destroying your own data much less botting their Cellbrite box. Would you rather face an obstruction/destruction of evidence charge or get slammed with far bigger charges supported by data on that phone? Still worse you may not be the only person in the line of fire.
If you are in possession of data that could harm others, it is your OBLIGATION to keep it out of the hands of their enemies without regard to any legal risk or other threats to yourself. If you cannot handle this risk, you also must not handle such data.
This is not optional, Obstructing Injustice is DUTY!
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Concerning the recent case where the Gestapo charged someone with some kind of bullshit destroying evidence charge for wiping their own phone to keep CBP out of it at the airport:
The person being charged for feeding CBP a duress passphrase that wiped their phone in CBP's hands did the right thing and depending on what was on that phone may have kept others out of jail or even prison.
The rules in this situation are those of solidarity, and those of cyber warfare.
CBP is lucky a wiped phone is all they got. This could have been a cheap burnphone "encrypted" with a weak passphrase (1234 maybe?), and some strong ransomware.
Flash drives can be fun too.
Some years ago, someone near Boston set their heart on some flash drive fun. They got some cheap flash drives, loaded them up right nice, then salted the parking lot of a police station with the flash drives. The department in question was that of one of the suburbs near Boston, not Boston PD itself. All it took was ONE cop finding one of the flash drives and plugging it into his work computer. The whole department was botted, they had to pay ransom to Russian organized crime to get back everything possibly from their warrants to their payroll.
This was just flash drives found on the ground, not flash drives or a phone forcibly stolen from an opponent who had time to prepare for an attack.
Yes the Enemy can bring charges for destroying your own data much less botting their Cellbrite box. Would you rather face an obstruction/destruction of evidence charge or get slammed with far bigger charges supported by data on that phone? Still worse you may not be the only person in the line of fire.
If you are in possession of data that could harm others, it is your OBLIGATION to keep it out of the hands of their enemies without regard to any legal risk or other threats to yourself. If you cannot handle this risk, you also must not handle such data.
This is not optional, Obstructing Injustice is DUTY!
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"US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean.
The case, which had its first hearing on Monday, centers on a little-known US federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized.
Experts said it may be the first time the law has been aimed at the operating system, which works on Google Pixel phones, and expressed concerns about a technology created for privacy and security being used to criminalize protesters.
'It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,' said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert. Boutry and Bill Buddington, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both said they had not seen a similar case.
The defendant, Sam Tunick, was stopped for interrogation at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on 24 January last year, after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Unbeknown to him, federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
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"US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute an Atlanta resident in connection with the movement against the police training center known as Cop City because he had GrapheneOS on his phone, an open-source operating system that enables users to enter a passcode and wipe a phone clean.
The case, which had its first hearing on Monday, centers on a little-known US federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized.
Experts said it may be the first time the law has been aimed at the operating system, which works on Google Pixel phones, and expressed concerns about a technology created for privacy and security being used to criminalize protesters.
'It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,' said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert. Boutry and Bill Buddington, senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, both said they had not seen a similar case.
The defendant, Sam Tunick, was stopped for interrogation at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on 24 January last year, after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Unbeknown to him, federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
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Protester Charged With Destroying Property After Giving CBP Agents His GrapheneOS ‘Duress’ Mode Passcode
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Protester Charged With Destroying Property After Giving CBP Agents His GrapheneOS ‘Duress’ Mode Passcode
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The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American
for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone,
according to an indictment and media reports.This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this week following the court’s first hearing on Monday,
Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick is fighting the charges.Tunick’s attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize his phone as he arrived back in the U.S. last year
and that any evidence
— including the alleged wiping of his phone
— should be thrown out.The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices.
Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.
The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user’s unlock passcode.
Tunick’s case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border,
which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter.The government’s indictment, which contains a typo (“Untied States Code”),
accuses Tunick of allegedly providing a passcode to border agents that caused the phone
to “delete the digital contents,”
prior to the device being seized.Tunick’s attorneys filed a motion to suppress the evidence, claiming that the detention and the seizure were unlawful.
The motion said U.S. border authorities took Tunick into a secondary inspection at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport as he returned from overseas on January 24, 2025,
but that he was repeatedly denied access to an attorney and was not informed of his legal rights.Tunick’s attorneys accused the government of demanding access to his phone under the pretext of searching for child exploitation imagery,
but without providing evidence to justify its suspicion.His motion to suppress argued that the government was instead investigating him over his association with a
long-running environmental movement called "Defend the Atlanta Forest", which opposes the development of a sprawling training campus for law enforcement in Atlanta dubbed “Cop City.” -
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American
for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone,
according to an indictment and media reports.This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this week following the court’s first hearing on Monday,
Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick is fighting the charges.Tunick’s attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize his phone as he arrived back in the U.S. last year
and that any evidence
— including the alleged wiping of his phone
— should be thrown out.The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices.
Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.
The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user’s unlock passcode.
Tunick’s case also raises ongoing questions about what constitutional rights can be invoked at the border,
which the U.S. government has long asserted is not U.S. soil until a person is authorized to enter.The government’s indictment, which contains a typo (“Untied States Code”),
accuses Tunick of allegedly providing a passcode to border agents that caused the phone
to “delete the digital contents,”
prior to the device being seized.Tunick’s attorneys filed a motion to suppress the evidence, claiming that the detention and the seizure were unlawful.
The motion said U.S. border authorities took Tunick into a secondary inspection at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport as he returned from overseas on January 24, 2025,
but that he was repeatedly denied access to an attorney and was not informed of his legal rights.Tunick’s attorneys accused the government of demanding access to his phone under the pretext of searching for child exploitation imagery,
but without providing evidence to justify its suspicion.His motion to suppress argued that the government was instead investigating him over his association with a
long-running environmental movement called "Defend the Atlanta Forest", which opposes the development of a sprawling training campus for law enforcement in Atlanta dubbed “Cop City.” -
#US accuses American, a #CopCity #protester, of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search
Concern over US effort to prosecute #SamTunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using the #OpenSource #GrapheneOS
Experts said it may be the first time law has been aimed at operating system, which works on Google Pixel phones, and expressed concerns about a technology created for #privacy and security being used to criminalize protesters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone -
#US accuses American, a #CopCity #protester, of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search
Concern over US effort to prosecute #SamTunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using the #OpenSource #GrapheneOS
Experts said it may be the first time law has been aimed at operating system, which works on Google Pixel phones, and expressed concerns about a technology created for #privacy and security being used to criminalize protesters.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone -
Wenn du ins Visier der Sicherheitsbehörden gerätst, weil du #GrapheneOS auf deinem Handy hast, dann weißt du: Du hast genau das richtige Betriebssystem gewählt. ✊
#atlanta #copcity #samtunick #privacymattershttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
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Wenn du ins Visier der Sicherheitsbehörden gerätst, weil du #GrapheneOS auf deinem Handy hast, dann weißt du: Du hast genau das richtige Betriebssystem gewählt. ✊
#atlanta #copcity #samtunick #privacymattershttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
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US prosecutors are moving against Atlanta resident Sam Tunick over the Cop City protest movement, alleging he had GrapheneOS on his phone used to wipe data after a passcode #duressPin during airport questioning. Experts warn the case could brand privacy tech as “criminal” — ⚖️🔒📱 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone #CopCity #GrapheneOS #DOJ
:msmusicnotes: It's beginning to look a lot like fascism… everywhere I go… :msmusicnotes:
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US prosecutors are moving against Atlanta resident Sam Tunick over the Cop City protest movement, alleging he had GrapheneOS on his phone used to wipe data after a passcode #duressPin during airport questioning. Experts warn the case could brand privacy tech as “criminal” — ⚖️🔒📱 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone #CopCity #GrapheneOS #DOJ
:msmusicnotes: It's beginning to look a lot like fascism… everywhere I go… :msmusicnotes:
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#TheGuardian:
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US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
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"Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS""“It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,” said Christophe Boutry,.."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
23.7.2026
#authoritarianism #BigBrother #CopCity #Crime #Cybersecurity #Cybersicherheit #GrapheneOS #Kriminalisierung #OS #PoliceState #privacy #Smartphone
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#TheGuardian:
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US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
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"Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS""“It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,” said Christophe Boutry,.."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
23.7.2026
#authoritarianism #BigBrother #CopCity #Crime #Cybersecurity #Cybersicherheit #GrapheneOS #Kriminalisierung #OS #PoliceState #privacy #Smartphone
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US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system
By Timothy PrattConcern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone
#Atlanta #Georgia #CopCity #USnews #TheGuardian #TimothyPratt
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US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone #Atlanta #Georgia #CopCity #UsNews
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US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone #Atlanta #Georgia #CopCity #UsNews
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The Deadly Exchange: Israeli forces have been training American police for decades http://dlvr.it/TTS0gs #civilrights #CopCity #georgia
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The Deadly Exchange: Israeli forces have been training American police for decades http://dlvr.it/TTS0gs #civilrights #CopCity #georgia
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Trump administration targets Cop City protesters in latest push to prosecute ‘antifa’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/trump-administration-cop-city-protesters-antifa #CopCity #TrumpAdministration #Georgia #Atlanta #UsPolitics #UsNews #LawUs #ProtestUs
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Trump administration targets Cop City protesters in latest push to prosecute ‘antifa’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/26/trump-administration-cop-city-protesters-antifa #CopCity #TrumpAdministration #Georgia #Atlanta #UsPolitics #UsNews #LawUs #ProtestUs
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Clio Andris from GA Tech just presented on cartographic presentations of #CopCity #Atlanta
https://medium.com/acm-cscw/the-many-maps-of-atlantas-stop-cop-city-movement-4498f382d256 -
Thousands of Atlanta voters petitioned for a referendum on the police training center, but the city just ignored it. I’m still furious.
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‘Flailing’ Georgia attorney general condemned over charges for Cop City protesters https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/georgia-cop-city-protesters-charges #Georgia #CopCity #UsPolitics #Republicans #UsNews
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‘Flailing’ Georgia attorney general condemned over charges for Cop City protesters https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/georgia-cop-city-protesters-charges #Georgia #CopCity #UsPolitics #Republicans #UsNews
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"When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement.
For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew up in in DeKalb County, is raising his daughter in the same majority‑Black neighborhood, and cherished the forest trail where his family used to jog and ride bikes.
Now, a massive police training complex and an expanding web of surveillance rise in its place, and it makes him feel watched, not protected.
The network, he said, “certainly feels like an invasion of privacy.”
The 41-year-old’s unease about the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as “Cop City,” is at the center of a much larger experiment.
Built atop 85 acres of one of Atlanta’s last urban forests, the training center is now wired into what has become the most expansive surveillance network of any city in the U.S., part of more than 60,000 public and private cameras linked to law enforcement across the metro area."
https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/
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"When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement.
For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew up in in DeKalb County, is raising his daughter in the same majority‑Black neighborhood, and cherished the forest trail where his family used to jog and ride bikes.
Now, a massive police training complex and an expanding web of surveillance rise in its place, and it makes him feel watched, not protected.
The network, he said, “certainly feels like an invasion of privacy.”
The 41-year-old’s unease about the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as “Cop City,” is at the center of a much larger experiment.
Built atop 85 acres of one of Atlanta’s last urban forests, the training center is now wired into what has become the most expansive surveillance network of any city in the U.S., part of more than 60,000 public and private cameras linked to law enforcement across the metro area."
https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/
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#Atlanta ’s ‘#CopCity’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for #AI Policing
https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras.
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#Atlanta ’s ‘#CopCity’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for #AI Policing
https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras.
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So about Proton Mail… not so privacy oriented after all.
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So about Proton Mail… not so privacy oriented after all.
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I mean, neutrality is picking a side and the Swiss will always side with the capitalists.
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
#Proton #ProtonMail #FBI #ACAB #CopCity #Protestor #Security #Privacy #Surveillance
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I mean, neutrality is picking a side and the Swiss will always side with the capitalists.
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
#Proton #ProtonMail #FBI #ACAB #CopCity #Protestor #Security #Privacy #Surveillance
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Reposting this about the Protonmail collaboration to bring this commentary to the front and ensure it is seen:
Responding to
https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/116178994327797393This of course means Protonmail can no longer be trusted, so for any email that needs to be secure use anonymous random numbered accounts and PGP/GPG used locally to encrypt and decrypt messages That's how SHAC (Stop Huntingdon's Animal Cruelty) used to do it and neither the US nor the UK was ever able to defeat their encrypted emails to my knowledge
Weak spot in this case was the account was a paid account, thus identifiable by payment info. This attack might have failed against a free account.
No paid online account should ever be considered secure unless MAYBE managed only w prepaid cards bought with cash from a variety of locations and not requiring personal info to activate.
At the Stop Cop City level the cards should be purchased by someone who does nothing else and ideallly pass through a "cutout," which is a courier again doing nothing else
Also cash (accepted by Proton it seems) should not come from an ATM due to risk of serial numbers being recorded or recoverable. I read somewhere that some ATMs are dispensing sequentially serial numbered bills.
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Reposting this about the Protonmail collaboration to bring this commentary to the front and ensure it is seen:
Responding to
https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/116178994327797393This of course means Protonmail can no longer be trusted, so for any email that needs to be secure use anonymous random numbered accounts and PGP/GPG used locally to encrypt and decrypt messages That's how SHAC (Stop Huntingdon's Animal Cruelty) used to do it and neither the US nor the UK was ever able to defeat their encrypted emails to my knowledge
Weak spot in this case was the account was a paid account, thus identifiable by payment info. This attack might have failed against a free account.
No paid online account should ever be considered secure unless MAYBE managed only w prepaid cards bought with cash from a variety of locations and not requiring personal info to activate.
At the Stop Cop City level the cards should be purchased by someone who does nothing else and ideallly pass through a "cutout," which is a courier again doing nothing else
Also cash (accepted by Proton it seems) should not come from an ATM due to risk of serial numbers being recorded or recoverable. I read somewhere that some ATMs are dispensing sequentially serial numbered bills.
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#Proton is in the news again - and it's for the same reason. At what point do we just have to say that a private mail server running on a VPS is the only path forward?
Or, and hear me out on this one: make a new #email protocol that's compatible with IMAP/POP3/SMTP that fixes some of their problems and takes power over data away from hosts and solely into the hand of the user.
Proton Mail Helped #FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop #CopCity’ Protester
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/ -
#Proton is in the news again - and it's for the same reason. At what point do we just have to say that a private mail server running on a VPS is the only path forward?
Or, and hear me out on this one: make a new #email protocol that's compatible with IMAP/POP3/SMTP that fixes some of their problems and takes power over data away from hosts and solely into the hand of the user.
Proton Mail Helped #FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop #CopCity’ Protester
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/ -
Federal appeals court rules against '#CopCity' referendum
https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/01/09/appeals-court-rules-against-cop-city-referendum/A federal appeals court ruled no First Amendment violation occurred since Georgia case law prohibits petitions overturning city ordinances.
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Federal appeals court rules against '#CopCity' referendum
https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/01/09/appeals-court-rules-against-cop-city-referendum/A federal appeals court ruled no First Amendment violation occurred since Georgia case law prohibits petitions overturning city ordinances.
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Fulton County judge drops #RICO racketeering charges against 61 anti #COPCity protesters. Charges of domestic terrorism against 5 protesters remain in place. https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/31/fulton-county-judge-officially-dismisses-rico-charges-against-all-61-stopcopcity-defendants/
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Fulton County judge drops #RICO racketeering charges against 61 anti #COPCity protesters. Charges of domestic terrorism against 5 protesters remain in place. https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/31/fulton-county-judge-officially-dismisses-rico-charges-against-all-61-stopcopcity-defendants/
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Fulton County judge drops #RICO racketeering charges against 61 anti #COPCity protesters. Charges of domestic terrorism against 5 protesters remain in place. https://atlantadailyworld.com/2025/12/31/fulton-county-judge-officially-dismisses-rico-charges-against-all-61-stopcopcity-defendants/
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Racketeering Charges Dismissed Against 61 People in Stop Cop City Movement
However, the state could re-file RICO charges with permission from the governor, and may appeal the judge’s ruling.
