@MisuseCase @Mer__edith Than it will be up to that to make this as accessable as we can and to broadcast information and warnings.

Those the government most wants to surveill will as always be the ones they miss. From organizers to underground direct action crews, from the best freedom fighters to the worst terrorists, they won't be able to read ANY of that traffic.

This will be like trying to prevent drones from delivering guns and drugs into prisons by monitoring the nearest airport.

In other words, the surveillance will hammer the civilian populace while completely missing its intended audience, same way IOF bombs do.

@MisuseCase @Mer__edith First step: In Android permissions you can with one "click" enable installing apps from one existing app. Got to settings->apps->Files (or whatever you have)->advanced/Install Unknown Apps and set to "allowed" and you can then install downloaded apps from the file manager.

In older versions, it was under "security" and would allow installing non-Google Play apps from any program on the device that could open them. This of course had the potential disadvantage of allowing silent installation of malware from the browser.

@waldschnecke @Mer__edith Note that I am operating from what is effectively a wartime perspective, in which the government is treated as the enemy. In my case I am also very well known, so this becomes a conflict between combatants who are already aware of oneanother, as is almost always the case in meatspace (realspace).

They can see WHO I am, can read my public posts, but cannot read my private Signal messages. Seeing that I am a Signal user gives them exactly zero new information, and they cannot even see who I am talking too.

Putting it another way, I am one of those the government MOST wants to be able to monitor what I say to whom, but whom this sort of legislation is least effective against. It's like trying to stop a tank with tire spike strips