The demonstrators arrived late at night with a plan to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with those detained inside. A few of the protesters spontaneously broke off from the main group and vandalized cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.
Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Meagan Morris were sentenced to 50 years in prison. Maricela Rueda, another demonstrator, was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Benjamin Song, who fired the gun at the police officer, was sentenced to 100 years in prison
The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.
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30 years for moving some pamphlets.
Actual paper, hand writing, wax seal. Pre-established protocols of communication and codes. You can make single use shared cyphers that have instructions on which cypher to use in the message itself. Change the code throughout the message, and burn the printed cypher, burn the message.
Do you really think there is any “trick” to evade this prosecutorial attitude? The reblious intentions of the victims can be clearly demonstrated by the actions at the protest. Everything else is just decoration.
Realistically, I find it unlikely that most any group of 5 or 10 or more people would be able to exercise perfect discipline and discretion required for this to work. I also dont know what kind of information would be transmitted this way? Its not like the rosenburgs passing scientific information. Its easier to just have an IRL meeting.
Anybody involved in this stuff has to be aware that there is a 1 in 3000 chance that they will be executed or life made hell indefinitely. Quit smoking/vaping now, it’ll make incarceration easier.
Lot of assumptions about my comment here. I’m simply sharing a non-digital mode. There’s no tricks to avoid conviction, the trick is to not get caught.
But you’ve hit the nail on the head with the usefulness of methods like this, it’s much more efficient to meet in person and that should be the go to.
I’m personally not doing anything that requires this level of detail in the first place because there’s little to no risk in the work that I do. If I were, I wouldn’t be spending time on here.
Also, I don’t vape or smoke.
These are called one time pads for anyone who isn’t familiar. It is actually an incredibly simple technique which can be done with pencil on paper if needed.
If they key of a one time pad is truly random and never reused, it’s the only kind of cypher that’s impossible to break no matter how much time and computing power one has.
(Of course, a smart attacker would try to go around it, like for example infiltrating the OS to get to the message whilst cleartext, but that’s a different story)
The downside is, of course, that that the one time pad key is as long as the message plus it has to be real random data, not the kind of thing you get out of a pseudo-random number generator (like the rand() function in C and similar).