SMH @ activists using techno-fascist platforms for communications during an operation subject to state-actor level interference. I thought we recognised and acknowledged this problem 15-20 years ago already.
https://xcancel.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1965431513320927706
Maybe consider Signal instead?
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100% CIA and mossad were watching those channels realtime.
I am pretty sure those groups were public
another reason why not to use whatsapp? for all that is good, don’t use meta or any corporate technofascist company. there are better options.
This is why you don’t use whatsapp
This is yet another reason why you don’t use whatsapp
ftfy
Yeah, that’s curious. I’d think they’d be prepared with Signal at the very least and some backup self-hosted channel, as well as cameras and backup cell hotspots.
they were prepared for the drone hit the other day; so hopefully for this as well.
I’d imagine they could have a few spread out boats further and further behind, each with its own cell hotspot, beaming WiFi all around, so that they have to be jammed simultaneously to stop the livestreams from capturing the attacks.
it sounds like it would be easier to pick them off one-by-one if they were far apart.
What difference would that make? If someone who does have big guns wants to take them out, they’re going to end up at the bottom of the sea regardless of how clustered the boats are.
I think the notoriety is the point; since this flotilla is incapable of carrying anywhere near enough supplies to make a dent for the gazans; and also what netantayu desperately wants to avoid so that this can be more easily ignored; like everything else so far.
Sinking boats filled with famous people and foreign nationals whose gov’ts who would be forced to respond on their citizens’ well-being would bring more attention and pressure; which is exactly what netantayu wants to avoid.
We saw the western govts pressure isreal by pretending to push for recognition of Gaza and the isrealis responded w air supply drops; more pressure might force them to stop slowly killing the Gazans.
Or fiber optic cable.
With all respect to a privacy advocates(I’m one), but blaming them on using WhatsApp is besides the point, these people are not trying to hide their activities, or locations, and many of them are not tech-saavy, the shame is on the cess pool that is Meta, and all the other goons…this is so fucked up on so many levels.
blaming them on using WhatsApp is besides the point
WhatsApp admins are explicitly interfering with a public protest in order to satisfy a genocidal foreign government.
This is at least as big a deal as TikTok censorship of anti-China posters. It’s just on behalf of a US ally, so we’re defending it rather than threatening to interfere in their business practices in turn.
the shame is on the cess pool that is Meta
Who appoints WhatsApp administration heads if not Meta? It’s the same picture.
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I don’t think Meta’s the one they’re going against, here
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Very odd from Whatsapp.
Totally consistent Meta is joined at the hip with US government and therefore more or less in league with Zionists, neocons and Israel just like every american big tech, bank and media company.
Lol wut? Meta has been working with the IOF and NSO and US for years
Did they select Whatsapp as a main communication channel and direct their supporters to it?
Or did they just start a group chat to reach out to supporters who were already on the app?
Was this their main channel of communication or just a group they had for supporters?
Doesn’t really matter, it’s the metadata that reveals your connections and locations. Surprisingly big amount of useful (but not necessarily correct or verifiable) intel can be gathered without eavesdropping into the actual conversations. People have been - on other occasions - targeted because they were connected to a person, who’s connections may have been suspicious to some state actors.
Huh? I was just curious, because it’s quite different if they used this as their main-channel. Using WhatsApp for that would be crazy.
My point was that even one phone with the WhatsApp app itself can mean compromised opsec. No matter if it’s used for operational communication or not, or whether or not the messages can be read by 3rd parties or not.
At least they werent organising on discord, maybe its intentional to send a message to people about meta
Meta is complicit in the genocide
Not the first genocide, either
The number of people who are like "are you on Whatsapp? " fir secure conversations…
All the more reason to use Signal.
So happy not to be using Whatsapp…
So the Trump ass-kissers have given the King of Fools another gift for his pleasure. The cost to freedom is immense
