Federal workers turn to encryption to thwart Trump
Source: Politico
Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking for other, protected ways to push back against the new administrations agenda.
Whether inside the Environmental Protection Agency, within the Foreign Service, on the edges of the Labor Department or beyond, employees are using new technology as well as more old-fashioned approaches such as private face-to-face meetings to organize letters, talk strategy, or contact media outlets and other groups to express their dissent.
The goal is to get their message across while not violating any rules covering workplace communications, which can be monitored by the government and could potentially get them fired.
At the EPA, a small group of career employees numbering less than a dozen so far are using an encrypted messaging app to discuss what to do if Trumps political appointees undermine their agencys mission to protect public health and the environment, flout the law, or delete valuable scientific data that the agency has been collecting for years, sources told POLITICO.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/federal-workers-signal-app-234510
harun
(11,348 posts)aquamarina
(1,865 posts)They are literally putting their careers on the line to keep Trump et al. from destroying this country.
benld74
(9,909 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)anyone caught using encryption will be f=6&.@9dP.
Any questions?
machoneman
(4,010 posts)that order to come very soon. Yet, if one thinks about it, the folks who already are doing so or plan to do so were or are so worried about their agency's mission and the USA in general that getting caught is the least of their worries. In essence, they have already crossed the Rubicon.