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As revolutionaries in the belly of the beast where freedom is a myth, we must take security very seriously. If you are doing organizing work or politically sensitive research on the internet you should be familiar with things such as what an IP address is and how to hide it, what a MAC address is, SSL, PGP, onion routers, keyloggers as well as how to be politically anonymous in general. Here is a little more background to get started:

• Quick Start Guide for Secure & Anonymous communications - Maoist Internationalist computer guide to getting involved online
• Political Questions- Old MIM Security Page
• Prison Organizing - Security in the Prison Movement (and beyond)
• Technology & Law - Surveillance Self-Defense
• Rethink Technology - Social Networking, Smartphones and Reliance on the Masses
• Basic Internet Security - an open source manual on open source technology
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity - in 2021, this is the best how-to guide to stay anonymous we've seen.
• Privacy Tools
• News & Updates - MIM(Prisons) Security News

***OFFICIAL CONTACT***

If you wish to contact MIM(Prisons) regarding campaigns, censorship, etc. we recommend that you DO NOT USE an email address that is connected to you persynally by name, school, work, home internet service etc. Use a free anonymous account. And consider encrypting your message with PGP. You should not be sending any sensitive information to us over email anyway, but encrypting all email makes our security better.

If your email is not about practical work, we probably will not respond to you. That means if you're not in North America we probably won't respond. It is about how we prioritize our work, not what we think about you. We do welcome links and useful information from all over.

Contact us at:
MIM(Prisons)
PO Box 40799
San Francisco, CA 94140

PGP encryption should be used for any emails. We do not have relations with other organizations that are not encrypted.

PGP Public Key beginning February 2020 (any messages encrypted or signed by MIM(Prisons) prior to February 2020 used an older key avaiable here):

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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h8xHZHYrkvlNWLfo9YBrBVr8hKYBAM623CT/jcTd04+Q2TwmWBIEQRcU5yzTiDrt
4v4Nn3IB
=05ya
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

NOTE: This key updated August 2020 with signed version, but still the same keypair. Unsigned version was causing errors for some users.