For the “already done this”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

For the modern technology making it significantly easier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

TL:DR, if you’re at a protest and your signal drops to 2G, your device is being monitored and tracked. Whether or not anyone acts on that data is a whole other thing.

If they’re just breaking down doors on anonymous tip, how long till people start ambushing them? They know they don’t have the data to back up a warrant, so they clearly aren’t putting much time checking where they’re invading.

FFS, stop using titles that start like this when its not an obituary

If someone’s done Pale, that is probably the longest (somewhere in the vicinity of 4 to 5 million words IIRC)

Its not the device cracking that’s the problem; its the “your device was identified at the protest we have labeled a riot and has been tracked to your home, which we will now raid in the middle of the night”.

Security by obscurity is not security.

I would not consider UK-based to be any better than US-based. The UK seems to have a major hate-on for anonymity, privacy, and encryption.

Same for GS employees, just a mass in processing formality

Highly recommend Pale; entirely different genre, magic and The Fey (in every sense of the word, dark and whimsical)

Y E A R N

Yep. Its kinda fucked how many states just… have this information on the open internet. I can just google my address (just street and number, no city info) and get a crapload of information.

VoterRecords.com

The two dwarves are fuckin’ hilarious

gestures vaguely at entire goddamn world