SignalBoost - Lessons from the real world of secure and anonymous organizing and protest

SignalBoost - Lessons from the real world of secure and anonymous organizing and protest

signalboost: https://signalboost.info

Snippets:

• The honduras-guatemala border legal clinic

lessons:

• ok to be small
• listen and make things in downtimes, use for less intense moments, use for organizing a picnic before a massive protest
• using projectors shining on buildings to get the blast # visible

• as more users forced org to consider early trade offs which lead to their policy documents, see https://signalboost.info/privacy

• trade offs: control/access to the total list of #s subscribed to the blast; stewardship of the data, long term solutions?; delete more frequently...longer term try to encrypt the lists (of #s) at rest (very exciting that this is happening soonish)

• traffic flow and speed of messages with the load of #s. next chapter is to work on these load capacity problems

• future questions about decentralizating and hosting

• trust and solidarity relationships in technology work is fundamental to the development of signal blast