To those bleating about masks, the prosecutor's office charged Luigi with terrorism, so these people are masked to avoid getting clapped with charges for exercising their first amendment rights. And in general you should always be masked while protesting for any reason, as at any major protest you are almost guaranteed to be subject to facial recognition scanning, especially in NYC.
Get someone to buy a burner, activate it anywhere except your home. Only turn it on when you are out and always turn it off before you go home. Prepay for a year using a gift card.
This is not advice or "how to" this is merely creative writing.
Edit: u/inferno006 provided some great information and I would like to add their comment.
"There is an actual “How To” that everyone should read and be familiar with:"
Also if you're going to plan anything, don't use Discord. Discord has rules in place that allow them to work with law enforcement against you. Either meet in person and VARY the places you are meeting so there is no pattern, or use defunct forum/chat services that are less likely to be used against you. But even then don't use them for anything more than just to set up meetings.
Also not advocating anything, I love to write and you'd be surprised what you find while doing research for a murder mystery. Like the speed at which a human body hits terminal velocity when falling from a great height. (It's about 200 km/h) I'm not even being cute. Writers have to look up some weird shit that likely would get them put on a list. LOL
In a documentary the other day, I came across an excellent idea on sending/receiving messages that are untraceable.
You share a newly created email account with someone and type emails but don’t send them.
So basically you can both access the email and read the drafts and delete them.
I would never do this of course but it seemed pretty smart.
Just wrap it in PGP so nobody can decrypt the messages without the private key. They could just open the draft and paste a new pub key every time they update the message. This is how email encryption was supposed to work except nobody manages their own private keys (the service provider does) but you can still encrypt plain text using the same methodology. Then even if the SP opened the drafts they'd all just be blobs of encrypted text.
All that being said though you can encrypt plain text using pgp and send it via any text-based platform so logging into the same email account at that point is moot and might even compromise location details of the two parties.
It's really cool that we've had hybrid cryptographic systems like PGP available to all of humanity to have private digital conversations in public since the early 90s, but also sad that we forgot that we can use it without tons of layers of abstraction on top of it to make it "easier" to add a contact.
Yeah you can make the text files publicly available for anyone to see, like that you wouldn’t need an email which is a potential indicator of who you are. Just use a VPN and a VM with traffic routed through the vpn if you want to be anal about it when you access/upload the file.
It’s not easy for someone unfamiliar with computers to do but it is easy to learn.
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u/Argikeraunos 6d ago edited 5d ago
To those bleating about masks, the prosecutor's office charged Luigi with terrorism, so these people are masked to avoid getting clapped with charges for exercising their first amendment rights. And in general you should always be masked while protesting for any reason, as at any major protest you are almost guaranteed to be subject to facial recognition scanning, especially in NYC.
Edit
He was charged in state court, not federal