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Kropotkindersurprise

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delicious homemade riot gifs and leftist propaganda. antifascist.
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You have said several times "Discipline and Punish" was the book that radicalized you. How it so? I'm about to read it soon. Salud camarada.

Discipline and Punish showed me that so many of the authoritarian and controlling aspects of society and of our lives weren’t inevitable and natural and always there, but that they were implemented and designed relatively recently with the explicit goal of controlling us and making us productive within Capitalism. It made me look at modern society with different eyes and question a lot more things.

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“Big Brother is watching you.” Once a threat from a dystopian future, today this is a universal reality that we all participate in with our smartphones and Instagram accounts. Yet for years, a rebel undercurrent has pushed back against surveillance, seizing the prevalence of surveillance cameras as yet another vulnerability in the system of control. In the following narrative, an anonymous researcher wages a personal war against surveillance infrastructure, testing some of the same tactics that social movements have recently employed from Greece and Slovenia to Chile and Hong Kong.

This is a really good article that really captures how regularly doing small acts of vandalism really teaches you to look at your surroundings in a different way and trains you to be security conscious, but most importantly, is incredibly fun and exciting. Check out my CCTV tag for more inspiration, tips and tricks.

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so apparently police forces in america will just use the same keyed-alike ford crown victorias, so you could for example buy a 1284x ford key for $15.22 from amazon.com and i just think it would be a shame if this information were to become publicly well known, that many police cars in america are keyed alike to the factory standard 1284x ford key and they’re not even that expensive

I’m really curious about the safest place to buy such an object. ideally going into a physical store with cash I think but then you’re on camera?

buy it with a gift card get it sent to a white normie friend’s house?

i’m not in security (or, i guess maybe i am now since i’m studying it), but either of those options would be an improvement over doing nothing. like, a gift card is still somewhat trackable but it adds an extra layer to the tracking process. it’s sort of a balancing act of, how many layers can you effectively add before it becomes prohibitively inefficient to manage? how much does one layer help compared to how difficult it is?

another strategy is plausible deniability. there’s nothing wrong or illegal about owning a master key (unless and until you use it to commit a crime), but you look less suspicious if you have several keys, a lockpick set, a bunch of disassembled locks, and thus a whole hobby

if you get in a situation where the cops are trying to pin you simply for owning any of these things, the problem is that they were already going to, so in my opinion, not owning these things does not necessarily make you any safer, since they would pin you for something whether you have them or not. acquiring the key probably isn’t where you need to apply your heaviest security, since there are any number of genuinely innocuous reasons you could want one. it’s wise to consider whether you could erase your tracks, but like… doing backflips to avoid leaving tracks can be more conspicuous than just leaving some tracks

plausible deniability does not work if you get caught red handed, but neither would using cash or a gift card, really (like, if you get caught doing crimes with the key, they aren’t gonna track down where you bought it)

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oh hey i love this talk!! explanations of the keyring for anyone who doesn’t want to watch dev’s lecture (though i do heavily recommend it, it’s great):

FEO-K1: most common elevator key

C415A: common filing cabinet key

CH751: common filing cabinet key

1284X: keyed alike car fleets (police, taxis)

jigglers: when you just want to try random shit in a lock, will usually open wafer locks and the like (think cabinet locks)

wire loop: hacking electronics! if you can access the wiring behind electronic locks, they usually have override modes that you can connect with the loop. deviant made his out of a stripped paperclip

16120: the key for telephony access boxes (doorking etc.) 

222343: this is the A126 linear key. use it to get into locked buildings with access pinpads by opening the box and fucking with the electronics

cuff key: handcuffs!

for like. legal reasons, a lot of this stuff is illegal folks. the person who carries this around works as a pentester, so he’s basically hired to break into places to test their security responses. don’t do shit unless you know how it works, and stay safe <3

And never make a plan that only works if the key works. Stuff like ‘all the cop cars in this city have this key’ is never true for long, but the message often circulates for years. Count on it not working, celebrate if it does.

This is maybe only accurate for the Netherlands and Germany, but these types of keys can get you into anything from public transport interior doors to digital and non-digital billboards, public utility access, streetlights and CCTV poles, and locked doors along the traintracks and such:

They’re called things like schakelkastsleutel or vierkantsleutel in dutch (utility key or square key) and these universal ones are about 10 euros. Very handy for graffiti and things of that nature.

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Across over two months of protests, demonstrators in Portland have experimented with a variety of tactics and strategies. The clashes in Portland drew international attentionstarting in mid-June, when footage spread of federal agents in unmarked cars snatching demonstrators off the sidewalks and Donald Trumpannounced that federal agents would be using this model to intervene in other cities around the United States. After Trump’s announcement, the demonstrations in Portland grew exponentially, drawing thousands each night, until the governor of Oregondeclared that federal agents would be withdrawn from the streets. In the following overview, participants in the Portland demonstrations describe some of the tools and tactics they have seen employed there.

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