i went to protests and drove her car. tried to be careful, parked waaaay far away and so on and walked towards the thing, didnt bring a cell phone the whole deal.
well now its a while later and she got a citation in the mail for "reckless driving". letter reads "we were reviewing our records and found that you have an outstanding citation..." blah blah blah. its from SIX YEARS AGO when she was stopped at a red light and someone hit her and drove off. she filled out a police report for insurance reasons and they are saying they highway patrol gave her a ticket back then. but the letter is from our counties clerk of the court.
whatever, i know what this is its targetting harassment. they clearly were pinging license plates and picked hers up and they are targeting people. so she calls the highway patrol to get it cleared up. heres the problem
WHEN ON THE PHONE WITH THE HIGHWAY PATROL SHE TELLS THEM THAT SHE THINKS THIS IS FROM WHEN HER HUSBAND WENT TO PROTESTS AGAINST THE COPS AND THAT THEY ARE TARGETTING HER FOR POLITICAL REASONS AND SHE THINKS THE HIGHWAY PATROL ARE GOING TO HELP HER IN THIS
i cant
i literally cannot even like wtf why are liberals like this i love her to my own goddamn peril but she is so fucking naive she actually thinks the organization she admits is corrupt and oppressive is going to help her
going forward i cannot ever tell her about any political activity im involved with. i cannot trust my own spouse
Sorry comrade, that blows.
Your protest opsec sounds like it was good, you went to all that effort, and then it was negated.
This wasn't worthless, however. You've adapted your threat model, and this mess reinforced one of the opsec weak points people forget about most often: their loved ones. You can be the most secure person in the world, but if your SO will disclose information then your security posture remains weak. I wouldn't exclude her completely, however. You should keep talking about opsec with her, and try to help her further understand why things like this are bad.
Join us over at /c/tactics for more irritating opsec posts.
i appreciate you
I may have given you a different impression before, but I want to say that this is the most reasonable advice I have seen in this thread.
I too am in a long term relationship and some problems arise that honestly might have been deal breakers when we were dating and we have to deal with them because we love each other.