this is frankly really scary. if you’re in a socialist org, please make sure that they’re not so lax with security like this. also, why the actual fuck are they using google products. we are fucking doomed here in the west man. To be clear I think this is probably more on the local chapter of your org than the national org, but even then I really think national orgs need to be giving out a lot more training about this kind of thing, and quite frankly booting out the leadership of local chapters if they’re lax like this.
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PSL security culture: I left almost a year ago, their members locally know I don’t like them, but I’m still in some shared folder where I can see sensitive event and recruiting information
I highly recommend to the people joining orgs to take serious steps and ask questions around security. What if this got into the wrong hands? Out of courtesy I’m censoring the names. I have plenty more screenshots of events in case they try to refute this but I recommend they just hold this L quietly
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Could you elaborate on the PCUSA’s behavior? I am not organized with them, but I am with the PSL. I’m just curious about the PCUSA
They’re undialectical patsocs with lots of members with info on their lists and many fewer actually participating in their zoom things (which is all they do besides support reactionary platforms against Ukraine). No one responded to my emails that I was leaving. In the interview they said I would never have to worry about feds in the org. Any serious communist party would be aware of cointelpro. The leadership is rather controlling and they constantly attack people to the left of them. Idk how much of this is fed shit or just bad organizing. If you’re interested in more dirt I’ve elaborated before and you could look it up on my profile on lemmy search.
Edit: doesn’t mean much, but they used signal.
Actually it does mean a lot. Signal is literally funded by the CIA. https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html
Legitimately wondering, if not Signal what should serious activists be using? Not trying to be combative, but I’ve heard this talking point before in more reactionary parts of the net about the CIA “funding” Signal via the OTF - which tangentially, if you look at the rest of the projects OTF supports, it’s basically every moderately-sized privacy or encryption related open source project in existence… so I’m not really convinced that is necessarily a red flag, and if it is then we’re already really screwed. But then these same people typically just go on using something like Telegram which is… definitely not better. lol
It is hard enough to convince most people to use Signal which has relatively good adoption and name recognition, so it puts privacy conscious people in an awkward position when we have to almost every 6 months say to our contacts, “hey bro so please try out this new shiny chat app bro, it’s actually really secure this time I promise bro. please bro”
Matrix. Signal is a centralized, US company. That alone is enough to disqualify it.