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This implies that all electronic communications are insecure.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Morse code thrusts during sex.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

Very deep connections with your fellow revolutionaries, I see. What comaraderie! πŸ€—

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Say it again

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are several registered cases of coded verbal languages emerging to enable elements of specific groups to communicate between each other without risk of being understood by outside parties.

Jamaican patoΓ‘ is easy to identify as an example. The grammatical structure and speech speed creates a barrier for outsiders. Add a very plastic use of words and you have a very hard to follow "code".

In the 60/70's, in Greece, a private language emerged between gay men to enable those people, often persecuted, to communicate. It steadilly disappeared as social acceptance rose.

The cockney rimed slang is thought to have arised out of the need of the house staff to be able to freely speak between themselves in front of the employers with no concern from reprimands.

Then there is the prison and army slang.

Any more?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

act deaf, learn sign language, no one actually bothers to know sign language if they're not deaf or near deaf people

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

You can also learn hobo code. Engrave/mark signs in secret places. All you need is a sharp edged rock, a piece of chalk, or even a stick of charcoal.

Banning writing instruments is not realistic unless you’re keeping the entire population indoors in an immaculately clean prison or mental hospital type environment.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I remember a meme years ago that described how the type, color, number, and arrangement of flowers in a bouquet could be used to convey complex messages. I'll have to scroll through my hoard, but I'll post it if I find it.

But, honestly, as long as there exists a code that is shared between dissenters, and ways to represent discrete elements of that code, communication itself is easy. You could encode anything in a medium that can represent a binary state, like lining up shiny pebbles on your windowsill: two close to each other for a binary 1, or a single one for binary 0. Or you could represent messages by how you hang your laundry to dry. Or embed it into how you play a musical instrument. You could hang Christmas ornaments in your window and use any obvious property to represent a message. You could use a rudimentary radio transmitter to send messages through radio noise. The options are limitless.

The difficult part is maintaining operational security. The limitations presented by human mental capabilities means that a very simple pre-shared secret must be used, which may be leaked or deduced. You have to know where to look, how to decode or decrypt the message, how to respond, and how to do all of that covertly. Prisoners have successfully used hand motions while cleaning their cell window to convey messages outside, apparently for years before authorities caught on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Steganography, but with flowers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I’ll post it if I find it.

Ping me. Then.

Flower language is great because it is not universal. What a flower mean in your language and country doesn't mean the same in my language and country. And neither of it is made of words !

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Pen and paper, even it's outlawed people will always find a way to break the law. Of if you want something creative, through songs, poems or dance.

Reminds me of Arnis which the Spanish banned the practice so people created a dance around it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Briar. It was designed just for this. All traffic routes through Tor, it can also send messages using wifi, data, or bluetooth. There are no central servers to hack, seize, or takedown. Pretty much the entire internet would need to be killed off.

As for face-to-face communications - that's been done for centuries to fight the good fight. No reason that can't continue.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I can't imagine how supernaturally thorough you would have to be to prevent written communication.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Maybe stop teaching written language, like the taliban did to women

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Impossible. We will teach each other.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

While I like odd scenarios, this would be completely impossible to enforce, for one specific reason.

Anything can be a writing implement, it is simply not possible to ban writing as a concept.

You would need to ban litteracy to do that, and that would quickly ruin any country stupid enough to implement a rule like that.

I can absolutely see banning the printing press, xerox machine, and even a normal printer as they all quickly amplifies the message at a low cost, but normal pen/paper has too many uses and are too easy to make to effectivly ban.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

You can make pencils with charcoal, paper bark trees are common here.

Also pirate radio, hard but not impossible to conceal its location if you've got a good portable system.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I communicate by specially timed farting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

And now, the national anthem

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

This doesn't speak directly to your question, but in the appendix of the Neal Stevenson book, Cryptonomicron, there are instructions on how to use a deck of cards (technically 2) as a one time pad for encrypting and decrypting messages. This could serve as the foundation for secret messaging using other media than paper.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

It's really sad when no one is saying "just talk" πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

An underground movement forms that uses interpretive dance as a means of steganographic communication. The code is kept secret for plausible deniability. A parallel would be Capoeira, a combat technique developed by Afro-Brazilian slaves and disguised as a form of dance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Return to Bronze Age, exchange clay tablets with secret messages in cuneiform. I can fashion a wedge-shaped stylus out of any old stick

Edit: better yet, if we don't fire the tablets, we can destroy them quickly and easily whenever we need to or just recycle them. This was common for a lot of cuneiform tablets in ancient Mesopotamia, and much of what we have found in archaeology is stuff that was unintentionally fired because the building it was in burned down

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

But can you complain to someone for low quality copper?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I can, I will, and I shall have my review echo through the ages

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

What other purpose does man have in life?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Of course, that's mainly what we are revolting against.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Only when received with contempt

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Woodcarving, I'll be passing huge logs with our detailed plans written on it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Does this mean toilet paper is banned?

Paper towels are banned?

Food wrappers made wholly or partially of paper are banned?

Is cardboard packaging banned? Does cardboard count as paper?

Are paper sticker labels for shipping banned?

Are paper/sticker labels on all kinds of products not packaged in cardboard banned?

... I am curious as to your answer, but I struggle to concieve of a society where everything is done on electronic devices, but somehow also all kinds of paper and paper based products common to many households and vital to the supply chain and logistics that produces and distirbutes the electronic products are also banned, entirely.

Even if the answer is somehow yes, all kinds of paper based products are banned and replaced with metal or plastic or glass or something...

Clay tablets. Whittle a stick into something that can make impressions on it, bake the tablet, or really any kind of pottery.

Use a knife to etch writing into pieces of thin plastic, or wood.

Use a laser engraver to engrave glass or metal.

Make crude ink or liquids capable of staining on your own from raw ingredients, write on thin fabrics, white fabrics like cheap t shirts or certain kinds of gauze or bandaging, again with a whittled stick, a chopstick, a feather, etc.

You didn't say paint is banned. Spray paint stuff. Make stencils out of thin plastic or metal.

Glue toothpicks to thin plastic.

For any of these methods, you can make up your own language or pictogram / hobo sign style system of symbols to convey whole concepts.

And for most of these methods, the object with the writing or the writing itself on it can be destoryed by fire, immersion in water or pulverization, for more resilient material use a dremel or radial sander/grinder to obliterate the message.

And this is all just homebrew ways to do writing.

Tons of other ways of communicating.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can blink in Morse Code.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

mostly speech. probably some looks and gestures till we get somewhere private along with coded speech. symbols, placement of objects.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You live in a dystopian present. What do you say now?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (9 children)

I say: The only way to fix healthcare is to do what a wise man did and [Redacted by lemmy.world Admins]!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Signal messaging app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Gratuitous acts of memery. Cats, Pikachu faces, swole doge and Cheems - you name it. Arcane to the uninitiated, ever so meaningful to the inner circle.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I'll get Lil to come over. She's my mother's sister's girl.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I'll graffiti large dicks everywhere, with charcoal and chalk if I can't get paints, as means of communication

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You imply that the government is evil and that I am a member of the rebels.

Dude, I’m all about survival. Iβ€˜d get a government job and just work. Maybe I’d drop some oopsie-daisy and that’s that.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Use them anyways.

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