Needless to say, it seems entirely normal these days for such articles to appear and for no-one to bat an eyelid at the notion of such 'preventative detention' based on zero evidence that known politicos intend to do anything at all on the day. Thatcher's legacy via Blair and now Cameron is just how normal political policing is.

make sure you're not being followed, if you travel by public transport pay for tickets with cash, stay at a friend's house the night before

i think this is good advice - recall charlie vietch and others (from the squatting scene) getting nabbed before the last royal wedding...lessons learned are take these precautions and lay low. but dont let that stop you protesting on the day...

solidarity to anyone taking to the streets protesting during the funeral

A good way to keep the police in check is to encrypt everything possible. If you have to use unencrypted media in say a camera then get things onto an encrypted device as soon as possible and wipe the original. The police routinely put things from media devices into "intelligence" systems. Don't undermine yourself and comrades in this way, take precautions.

Use something like Truecrypt  http://www.truecrypt.org/ for computers. It takes very little time to get used to. When the police stole one of my computers I can tell that the bastards turned it on, no doubt to plunder "intelligence". All they got from my computer was a request for the password, they didn't get any further. I still laugh at them.

"All they got from my computer was a request for the password, they didn't get any further. I still laugh at them. "

That may not have been the case.

If the police had the physical computer in their hands, they would have taken the hard drive out and connected it to another machine and simply scanned, loaded and looked at your data that way. Putting a password on your computer only means that they cannot access your computer from the operating system on your machine. That's useless once the hard drive has been removed and placed in a mchine that never loads the operating system.

The only way to keep your data secure is never to generate it in the first place. Talk person to person or use a codified language that only your group can understand. Get a text editor and run it from a flash drive and only save your text files on that drive. Ensure that no matter what you do, the data you are working with only ever exists in RAM memory. If you save it, save it onto the flash drive and ensure that isn't left in your laptop or computer while you are away. If you send a file, encrypt it before sending and only send it to people you know and trust.

Under no circumstances use an online encrypting agent, it is CERTAINLY a stitch up and run by the very people you are trying to avoid.

Don't be a mug, never keep sensitive stuff on devices that could easily be lifted off your person like camera's, mobile phones or data sticks in your pocket. If its sensitive, ensure it can never be seen or found, no matter what happens to you.

The question you should ask yourself is this, if I got arrested tomorrow and it was a national emergency that my flat or house were raided...how much evidence would the nark have to put me away in prison? The answer should be a big fat zero.

That's all for now. Stay safe.

>> If the police had the physical computer in their hands, they would have taken the hard drive out and connected it to another machine and simply scanned, loaded and looked at your data that way.
The guy said he protected the contents by encrypting the drive. All the files in a virtual partition that is encrypted. So if you plugged it into another computer, all you would see is encrypted files that can't be viewed without the password.


>> The only way to keep your data secure is never to generate it in the first place
Incorrect. With a proper level of encryption you can protect your files to a point where no one can feasible crack them. Just ensure you have adequate level of encryption as opposed to mickey mouse level.


>> Talk person to person or use a codified language that only your group can understand.
Until somebody makes a slip-up as people always will do. As an analogy, if you drive a car with the police following you, eventually you will make a slip-up and do something illegal. That applies to everyone on the planet.

>> Get a text editor and run it from a flash drive and only save your text files on that drive.
So carry the data around with you 24/7 with the chance of losing it more easily than a laptop?


>> Don't be a mug, never keep sensitive stuff on devices that could easily be lifted off your person like camera's, mobile phones or data sticks in your pocket. If its sensitive, ensure it can never be seen or found, no matter what happens to you.
Or, just dont break the law.


>> The question you should ask yourself is this, if I got arrested tomorrow and it was a national emergency that my flat or house were raided...how much evidence would the nark have to put me away in prison? The answer should be a big fat zero.
Yes, and the easiest way to achieve this is to not break the law.

once after a night of vandalism/graffiti in new cross my mate was nabbed by BTP.

I managed to slip pass the cops, and get to Loughbourgh Junct. to clean out his bedroom at 7am, luckily they kept everything in a blue plastic box, his laptop, paint, the works, i was able able to scoop it all up.

Around 9am a couple of BTP showed up to search his house, me and two mates were across the street in a greasy spoon a regular of ours, taking photos of them hahaha. they ended up dropping the charges due to lack of evicence!