I strongly disagree . While there ' s a place for offline organizing away from devices , the reality is we live in and operate in a global world of advanced technology . When activists get raided or go on the run or have to do basically anything it ' s almost entirely a matter of whether they have any knowledge of net security and crypto tools that determines whether they survive . Full stop . Even if it ' s just learning PGP and getting Tails on a flash drive . That shit will save you in so many situations . Security nihilism gets radicals arrested . It encourages people to either get into situations where they don ' t have knowledge of the tools that could help them take courses of action that could radically improve their situation or it encourages them to cut corners on their tool use since everything ' s insecure . Fuck that . I ' m fucking sick to the death of watching comrades go to prison and I ' m sick of the dumbass luddite punk rhetoric that often unnecessarily puts them there . Of course the flipside is activists who think that riseup or signal mean they ' ve gotten everything taken care of and anything further is paranoia . That shit likewise is dangerous as fuck .