SIGNAL SECURITY CHECKLIST
BASICS:
- Don’t send anything you don’t want read back to you in court.
- Have in-person conversations as often as reasonable.
- If you’re in a group chat with people you don’t know well, assume it is not secure.
- If a group member is arrested or their phone is confiscated, notify an admin immediately so they can be removed from chats.
- Delete sensitive messages for everybody – this must be done within 24 hours. After that, messages can only be deleted for you, not for others.
SETTINGS:
Accounts:
- Registration lock: ON.
Chats:
- Generate Link Previews: OFF
- Share Contacts with OS: OFF
Notifications:
- Show: No name or content (Super Important!)
Keyboard:
- Incognito Keyboard: On (Android Only)
Privacy:
- Phone Number: Who can see my number, NOBODY
- Disappearing Messages: Set a default time period.
- Hide screen in app switcher: ON
- Screen Lock: ON
- Screen Lock Timeout: SHORT
- Biometrics: DISABLED
- Advanced: Always Relay Calls: ON
Phone (OS-Level)
- Passcode: 6 Digit Minimum (Stronger preferred)
- Disable cloud backups if possible
IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Deleting messages reduces risk – it does NOT guarantee deletion if:
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We’re archiving this little infomational video from @disruptwars on instagram. It’s not comprehensive but is a good starting point for people to preemptively start thinking about house raids. There’s a lot of really useful information that gets made for instagram and then is lost, this is our part in preserving it. But if you’re making information for instagram, please also make it for and send it to a counter-info website and/or make it into a zine, or if it’s video like this get an account with kolektiva.media and also upload it there. Archiving our information is crucial for all of us 6 months later.