Please spread the word quickly online and in person.
I am seeing a serious problem.
Many naive or RINO people are running campaigns in a way that is not safe for volunteers. Most are probably simply naive, computer illiterate, and more than a bit stupid, but we need to do something about it anyhow.
They are requiring volunteers who are naive enough to do this to install apps on their phones to do door knocking, such as Sidekick. The volunteers are tracked just like the bad guys were tracked in 2000 Mules, but this time the bad guys are tracking the good guys. It doesn't matter what the app developer says. Deep State owns both mobile operating systems. Door knocking can easily be done by using the voter databases, typically Comma Separated Variable files, and importing them into a database or using OpenOffice to generate printed lists. Anyone who says that door knocking did not exist before mobile phones is a liar.
These people walking around as Republican volunteers might easily be attacked by Antifa. Many times they are senior citizens. Or the volunteers could be locked up in jail like the January 6 crowd, or have their bank accounts frozen. None of this is new.
Antifa attacks Republicans on a regular basis. Here is a list from some time ago: https://dailycaller.com/2017/06/16/this-list-of-attacks-against-conservatives-is-mind-blowing/. Look online. There are a huge number of attacks.
Sometimes campaign organizers also use Google apps to do organizing work, just handing Patriot data to Deep State.
It is July. We don't have much time. Find out if your area's Republican campaigns are doing this stupid stuff, and raise hell. Totally ignoring basic cybersecurity precautions is a very very bad idea and very dangerous to Patriots.
This is a war. Why is security being ignored?
And please spread the word on this.
The original poster is actually correct. Worked in IT for many, many years.
Cybersecurity is a simple checklist to use encrypted apps with no ads and no tracking. You just have to substitute what you're used to with an alternative that works just as well or better.
There is no reason, no reason whatsoever to use apps that track you.
You can de-google your phone easily. There are alternatives to all of googles software.
maps.me or 'wego here' by nokia work equally as well for google maps.
use AURORA STORE instead of playstore. Only use apps that have NO ADS.
Signout of all google apps.
Use proton.me for email/calendar.
use telegram x (secret chat function) for messaging/comms.
Use graphene to reformat your phone with a safe OS or pay/ask an IT friend to do it for you.
Use trusted, reputable antispyware tools
etc.
Google doesn't invent anything new, they just copied other ideas and used them for data whoring.
People get lazy with cybersec because they fell there is no immediate danger.
Yet just like locking your front door, its not until its too late that you find out someone has been stalking you, and then they attack.
If someone in the military used weak cybersec tools they would be court martialed.
Treat your data as if it were your life on the line. Even if you have nothing to hide.
And never do anything harmful or illegal of course.
SHORT ANSWER: Installing linux or graphene and ceasing usage of google apps (switching to alternatives) is actually not difficult to do at all. Takes about an hour to setup.
Drivers get overwritten by the OS being swapped out. Voila, no tracking.
If all you do is email, messaging, browsing, maps/navigation, literally any phone can do these without any google tools at all.
And of course uninstall all social media apps. Use telegram or other secure apps only for group chat.
What breaks cybersecurity is you. Bad habits. Securing a phone and then, like an idiot, logging into facebook. Don't. Or installing protonmail but then switching back to gmail just because you can't seem to let it go. Don't.
Stick to what works.
No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use insecure tools. Companies simply make these convenient (like cigarettes).
Uninstall all facebook & google & 'big tech' apps from your phone.
Other than the Telegram point, I totally agree with you. I've always been wary of telegram and subsequently signal due to well... I distrust apps that are secretive about their permissions.
threema is popular with USMIL. Encrypted chat that is not google/fb oriented.
(dont use whatsapp or gchat)