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Practical Security Handbook released

Security for Activists | 27.10.2004 20:01

The Practical Security Handbook for Campaigners and Activists has at last been released and is available for free download at www.activistsecurity.org

Written by political activists with many years experience in successfully dealing with repression from the state and companies, it provides 40 pages of practical and in dept advice on the following topics:

- Security for Campaigns
- Personal Security
- Security for Actions
- Security at Demonstrations
- Counter-surveillance techniques
- Identifying and detailing with infiltrators and grasses
- Elementary computer security

It is written for all levels of activism; whether you simply seeking to shift the status quo though political lobbying to those seeking radical change through direct action. Anyone seeking to change the system will face repression in some form, so this booklet has something for everyone.

To get your copy of this booklet visit www.activistsecurity.org (The website is a bit basic at the moment as we’ve been focusing on writing the booklet, so bear with us. The content is there though.)

We are also looking for your input so if you have advice, corrections, constructive criticism or able to help out, please email us at

info@activistsecurity.org. We can offer limited advice due to time constraints at the moment, but people are available to give talks to your group if you can cover travel expenses.

All the best
Have fun & stay free

Security for Activists collective

Security for Activists
e-mail: info@activistsecurity.org
Homepage: http://www.activistsecurity.org

Comments

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Unwise to distribute this document as RTF

28.10.2004 18:26

Should use PDF format and not RTF format for distributing documents like this. Doesn't look at all good for a document intended to increase people's security being passed around in such a vulnerable format. Anyone with a virus infected copy of Micro$oft Word/Office opening this RTF file and then passing the file onto anyone else will potentially infect that person - and the next one. This is because of the way Word is so easily hijacked by viruses which then cause it to save RTFs as infected word formatted documents even though they may be named as RTF.

gill bates

gill bates' evil empire

28.10.2004 21:05

another good reason not to use Micro$oft kit.

Do computers scare you? Not that much since you've got this far on the web!

But changing the operating system of your computer? Look up Linux on the web. Reasonably cheap (or free if a mate gives you a burned CD) and surprisingly un-scary once you get it installed.

http://www.blagblagblag.org/
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"blag - le brixton linux action group

works to overthrow corporate control of information and technology through community action and spreading Free Software.

blag - blag linux and gnu

blag is an operating system. blag has a suite of graphics, internet, audio, video, office, and peer to peer file sharing applications. you can replace a windoz installation with blag. if you would like to install and run blag, download and burn it to cd.
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bobby

ANOTHER reason?

29.10.2004 13:50

You imply that fundamental computer security is only a secondary reason for going for Linux and that all the political, philosophical etc waffle is the primary reason. Well sorry, but most people want to use their PCs to do things with and they can't do that if it's been broken/compromised by Windoze's inherent vulnerability. Making a political statement by using linux must come AFTER the increased security mentioned above. Until all you linux proponents start plugging increased computer security right at the TOP of the list of reasons for changing then linux will continue to be sidelined. Most people - me included - just can't be arsed to make a political statement by changing to a nerdy operating system that far fewer people are able to understand and fix. Let's face it, linux is still pretty hard work to set up and configure compared to windoze which nearly always works straight out of the box. Get your priorities right and emphasise the most important things.