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Cover of Activist Checklist is "AI" Slop Fucking Garbage

Activist Checklist is "AI" Slop Fucking Garbage

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Activist Checklist sprang into existence and aggressively pushed themselves on the movement. Their site is AI slop, and their advice is not suitable for radicals, yet radicals keep boosting it. They have dubious ideological alignment in that they are AI advocates and can’t sufficiently critique the dangerous parts of the tech space that activists often end up relying on for infrastructure. Their advice endangers people in subtle ways, and it doesn’t aim to radicalize them. Their website simply should not exist.
Cover of Mobile Phone Security: For Activists and Agitators

Mobile Phone Security

For Activists and Agitators

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This zine goes into detail about mobile phone surveillance and the most common and effective countermeasures against it. Popular misconceptions and urban legends are addressed to help ensure that our threat models and OpSec are based on reality. This zine is suitable for everyone involved in social movements.

This is the 2026 update from the original zine published in 2022.

Cover of PopSec: How Not to Blow Up a Pipeline

PopSec: How Not to Blow Up a Pipeline

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This zine looks at the errors made in the 2022 film How to Blow Up a Pipeline and imagines how the film would have looked if the affinity group took security seriously. Fiction shapes reality, and the analysis is meant to help counter the unsafe practices we see on screen.
Cover of Threat Modeling Fundamentals

Threat Modeling Fundamentals

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We ask our comrades “is it okay to use mobile phones?” and they respond “it depends on your threat model” before listing off scenarios that might endanger us. From these interactions, we have some idea of how a threat model is used, but how they’re created is usually less clear. We shouldn’t fully entrust our safety to others, and so we need to learn to manage the risks we ourselves face. This zine covers the methods you can use to threat model on your own and how these explicit steps can make you and those around you more safe. Our security is only as good as our models are accurate, so let’s sit down and really think about how we can keep fascists and cops at bay as we move towards a liberated world.
Cover of Affinity Fraud and Exploitable Empathy

Affinity Fraud and Exploitable Empathy

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This zine explores how identity can provide camouflage that allows for intentional or incidental disruption of radical circles and organizing, and how the security culture we’ve developed to mitigate many threats can clash with the anti-racist, anti-sexist, and otherwise progressive norms within our movements.
Cover of PopSec: Andor

PopSec: Andor

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A zine the uses the plot of the Star Wars series Andor to reflect on security culture trends and OpSec practices within our radical communities.
Cover of Handy Sicherheit: für Aktivist:innen und Agitator:innen

Handy Sicherheit

für Aktivist:innen und Agitator:innen

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Dieses Zine befasst sich eingehend mit der Überwachung von Mobiltelefonen und den gängigsten und wirksamsten Gegenmaßnahmen. Verbreitete Missverständnisse und urbane Legenden werden angesprochen, um sicherzustellen, dass unsere Bedrohungsmodelle auf der Realität beruhen. Dieses Zine ist für alle geeignet, die sich in sozialen Bewegungen engagieren.

Dies ist eine Übersetzung der alten Version des Zines von 2022. Es gibt eine aktualisierte Version von 2026 auf Englisch.