Posted by: The Goat | Digital Survival Series | ravegoat.com/updates
Hey Herd,
The bleat is real:
📱 Your phone? Tracked.
🧾 Your data? Merged.
📸 Your face? Tagged.
🧠 Your thoughts? Profiled.
With the Trump–Palantir fusion surveillance system now officially rolling out across federal agencies, digital safety isn’t optional anymore — it’s self-defense.
So here’s your crash course from the cyber cliffs of GoatNet:
🕶 1. COVER YOUR FACE (LITERALLY & DIGITALLY)
- Use sunglasses, masks, hats in public. Avoid being training data for facial recognition AI.
- Blur or sticker faces before uploading event photos.
- Be mindful of background metadata — store signs, timestamps, reflections.
📵 2. NEUTRALIZE YOUR PHONE
- Faraday bags, airplane mode, or leave it home if you’re doing something sensitive.
- Disable Face ID / fingerprint unlock — use strong passcodes only.
- Limit app permissions. Why does that flashlight need your contacts?!
🔒 3. ENCRYPT EVERYTHING
- Use Signal or Session for private messages. iMessage ≠ safe.
- Don’t trust email for secrets. Period.
- For serious ops: encrypt your files with VeraCrypt, and use Tails or Qubes OS.
🧭 4. DITCH GOOGLE. GO GOAT MODE.
- Use Brave or Firefox with privacy extensions (uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger).
- Search with DuckDuckGo or Mojeek — not Big Brother Bing.
- Self-host if you can. Federate where possible.
🧠 5. BE UNPREDICTABLE
- Use multiple identities (online and off). Rotate handles, emails, and devices.
- Change your patterns — same IP, same time, same behavior = easy to flag.
- Practice meta-awareness. The most dangerous data is your behavior pattern.
🛰️ 6. DON’T LET THEM MAP THE HERD
- Never give platforms your full list of friends. Disable contact sync.
- Be cautious in group chats: you’re only as safe as your weakest link.
- Move organizing to secure comms like Matrix — we’ve got you: chat.ravegoat.com
🧨 BONUS: FOR ACTIVISTS & RESISTERS
- Use pseudonyms, aliases, and separate devices.
- Set up burner emails (Tutanota, ProtonMail) and privacy-first VPNs like Mullvad.
- Bookmark: privacytools.io, surveillance.self-defense.org
⚠️ REMEMBER:
They aren’t just watching what you say.
They’re watching how, when, and with whom.
Metadata = Movement.
Behavior = Intent.
So scramble the signal, cloak the goat, and bleat free.
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🔗 Share this guide. Teach your friends. Stay sharp.
📡 Got questions? Hit the GoatCloak channel on Matrix.
Join the Herd. Resist the Grid.
— RaveGoat 🐐
“Just because they see you doesn’t mean they know you.”