Ken Montenegro kmontenegro

Equipment

Mobile hot spot (bring your own internet! Nonprofit pricing for a Sprint, or commercial through TMobile)
USB cable to tether your phone for internet & extra charging. Anker cables have a good balance of price and quality.
USB battery pack (I like the Jackery battery pack b/c it supports lighting & micro USB and has a flashlight built-in
Medium paper clip for holding papers AND ejecting SIM cards
Faraday bag (I like this model)
Noise cancell

Endpoint Thresholds

Securint endpoints is hard. Between user account management, patch management, and secure physical access, there are so many things that can go wrong.

Below are some potential baselines considerations for endpoint protection of Windows machines:

Make sure the machine is part of a patch management routine
Use the Microsoft Security Baseline Recommendations and, where possible, apply them by Group Policy Object
Always grant least priviledges to your users. If applications required local admin rights, please work with the vendor to identify how that window of user rights can be restricted.
Enable application control. This not only helps keep your patch surface small, it also helps identify what the machine's purpose is and what corallary threat vectors are. See if AppLocker or the app whitelisting in Device Guard help you establish a baseline posture/practice.
PowerShell is great but does it need to installed in all machines? Can you run it only in "Constrained

Life During Wartime explores the use of counterinsurgency practices by domestic US law enforcement. The border section is valuable although the entire book has useful infomation to understand policing.
Targeted is a classic which documents the early stages of immigrant enforcement & detention as a profit model.
Undoing Border Imperialism presents a radical reframing of how we talk about borders, empire, migration, and resistance. While a little dated, really valuable for a radical and people power based analysis.
Violent Borders has an international view of the violence of borders.

To me, I also think the work of Fanon and [Edward Said](http://www.arabstereot

More Secure Communications for Incident Intake

Background

I work at a legal services nonprofit where the direct legal services team is always challenging or inviting the technology team to help us all do our work better. Sometimes, the "better" takes the shape of securing existing workflows.

We have a legal hotline that handles over 5 Asian languages. Some of these calls are immigration related where an individual might be "out of status" or "without lawful presence". For these calls, and other sensitive work like family law, expungements, etc, we're exploring what options exist to do intakes in a way that reduces the digital footprint of the person seeking assistance and scales beyond one person.

Tangent: I'm using incident response instead of rapid response because incident response has a framework that might be very helpful in a social movement and access to justice context that is missed by "rapid response" which is sometimes neit

Data is difficult. Data of marginalized community is even harder due to the consequences of a disclosure. Generally, there are 3 prongs I'm thinking about today:

Liability to a) the city by data disclosure/protection statutes and b) to the community by information sharing agreements that exist with the sheriff, the JTTF, and fusion centers
Ethically it seems unwise at a point in time where data creates an accurate map of peoples lives & networks that LAPD should attempt to further errode privacy. There's also the ethical issue of LAPD being able to abide by its own rules being even a heavier lift by adding another tool that can be easily abused (e.g. for stalking an ex or investigating someone who is not subject to a legal investigation).
Materially LAPD is the only recession proof department but that doesn't mean it should spend on a money pit of intelligence gathering software. NYPD's experience regarding the unexpected costs should serve as a severe warning to Los Angeles. Many activists sugge

Liberation looks like freedom:
Freedom from state controls like police, borders, & prisons;
Freedom looks like a reduced dependency on money;
Freedom looks like being able to spend time with & provide for our loved ones;
Freedom means access to learning opportunities and a pedagogy that centers collective struggle and liberation.

Liberation means all of us.

##Counter-insurgency and Surveillance ###Background
This conversation was initially centered around surveillance, but as that conversation evolved to include a historical context as well as the present-day stalker-state, we decided that ultimately this is a conversation about counterinsurgency.

What Is The Purpose of Counterinsurgency/Surveillance? In short, it's to disempower. A longer description of purpose includes intentions to discredit, disrupt, neutralize, & dismantle social movements or traditionally marginalized communities.

Often, the purpose of counterinsurgency (debilitation of movements) is abetted by nonprofits whose definitions of safety and reform are at odds with dismantling violent elements of the state. We have seen in both Los Angeles and Chicago grassroots movements suffer setbacks due to professionalized nonprofits engaging institutions of power to make side-deals based in reform rather than abolition.

###What Would We Like To See?

##National

President: Jill Stein or Gloria La Riva. We're in a solidly Democratic party state so this is an opportunity to build a pluralistic democracy by voting 3rd party. La Riva's running mate is Dennis Banks.
Congress: Adrienne Edwards NOT Xavier Becerra. He has stood by while mass deportations have happened and, in spite of the leadership role he has, has not affirmatively advocated for undocumented folks or dotaken a progressibe role
Senate: Kamala Harris. Though she isn't progressive, she appears to be able to listen to different opinions.

##Statewide

State Assembly (Boyle Heights): Sandra Mendoza. Miguel Santiago could have shown leadership in many areas and instead has played it safe.

##Propositions

51: No. I believe we should fund schools with taxes, not bonds that end up benefiting the bankers more than schools.

#LACAN 2016 Freedom Now! Awards

###The Los Angeles Community Action Network is hosting its 2016 Freedom Now! awards on July 9, 2016 at the California African American Museum.

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