Hey, I am just as critical in regards to security and socialist parties including my own, and I do want the party to improve on their opsec and prioritize open source, self-hosted, and encrypted/sandboxed/etc. tools, but blasting this onto twitter without the party's consent isn't very responsible. I don't know if you are the same user as the one on twitter, but I do apologize for the experience and this is something I believe the local chapter as well as the national party should improve upon. I joined the party with the goal to contribute my IT skills to make the party more secure.
I'm still a bit new and still learning, and I am being careful about not sharing internal only information, but locally we do work on different trainings, and I may be helping organize one related to security. We need more IT comrades to help with the party in order to realize changes to our technical infrastructure, especially when we become larger and reach later stages of organizing and begin shining in the surveillance industrial complex's radar. Simply slandering the organization by posting internal information does not help, especially for this issue regarding a hole in their security.
From my experience so far in my pre-branch, we have been much better at maintaining our signal chats, restricting old users from the chats and not retaining old messages in previous temporary chats. I believe this is more of an issue with this local chapter, and I am glad that at least this wasn't a dangerous person as you suggested burning the chapter. I can see your viewpoint, but I think the first thing to be done is to privately message the party so that we can internally discuss this and resolve the matter through democratic centralist means. That's appropriate for any situation generally, and perhaps if this escalated and the party made poor decisions after this, then bring this to the attention of the national party, and then maybe mention it publically without exposing sensitive information (and censor a little better when showing screenshots).
I hope I am not saying too much, but I am also working on alternatives for google products within my pre-branch, and other members were going to mention their concerns about the security of using big tech tools before I suggested to help. I'm just one IT person, and I am already contributing a major difference as this pre-branch grows.
Hey, I am just as critical in regards to security and socialist parties including my own, and I do want the party to improve on their opsec and prioritize open source, self-hosted, and encrypted/sandboxed/etc. tools, but blasting this onto twitter without the party's consent isn't very responsible. I don't know if you are the same user as the one on twitter, but I do apologize for the experience and this is something I believe the local chapter as well as the national party should improve upon. I joined the party with the goal to contribute my IT skills to make the party more secure.
I'm still a bit new and still learning, and I am being careful about not sharing internal only information, but locally we do work on different trainings, and I may be helping organize one related to security. We need more IT comrades to help with the party in order to realize changes to our technical infrastructure, especially when we become larger and reach later stages of organizing and begin shining in the surveillance industrial complex's radar. Simply slandering the organization by posting internal information does not help, especially for this issue regarding a hole in their security.
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From my experience so far in my pre-branch, we have been much better at maintaining our signal chats, restricting old users from the chats and not retaining old messages in previous temporary chats. I believe this is more of an issue with this local chapter, and I am glad that at least this wasn't a dangerous person as you suggested burning the chapter. I can see your viewpoint, but I think the first thing to be done is to privately message the party so that we can internally discuss this and resolve the matter through democratic centralist means. That's appropriate for any situation generally, and perhaps if this escalated and the party made poor decisions after this, then bring this to the attention of the national party, and then maybe mention it publically without exposing sensitive information (and censor a little better when showing screenshots).
I hope I am not saying too much, but I am also working on alternatives for google products within my pre-branch, and other members were going to mention their concerns about the security of using big tech tools before I suggested to help. I'm just one IT person, and I am already contributing a major difference as this pre-branch grows.