Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.
PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!
Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.
The bastards have been at it a long while
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Surveillance self defense
https://ssd.eff.org/
How to spot a fed
https://crimethinc.com/2013/07/06/is-she-an-informant-a-ten-point-checklist
Anybody wants a copy of any of the zines below, DM me
I honestly just assumed that was happening anyway. Good to get it in public eyes, though.
I assumed this was a given. Of course there are going to be people on Lemmy and Reddit and Discord whose sole reason for being there is information. Possibly even encouraging violence to see who takes the bait.
There’s a podcast series called The Michigan Plot. Wherein undercover FBI pick the dumbest man in the group and lead him where they want him to go. It’s a bit of a horror show whatever your political lean. That dumb man is now in prison.
Doing such on social media would be much cheaper and easier.
They do.
I imagine law enforcement would be in most forums. Stay private, folks.
Ha! Good luck with that. I would need to have friends first to even be in a group chat for them to infiltrate.
To the Fed lurking here about to read my comment history: I know what it looks like, but I swear I didn't write any of it.
I already assume everyone in my group chat is a fed.
That's just what a Fed would say!