Give up on legibility and the coherence of politics, because you’re never going to get it again, and understand that this is a blessing. Plan on losing every battle for the rest of your lives to the ubiquitous surveillance state and the ubiquitous network-control state that follows it and understand that you still get to, as a collective entity, completely determine what those losses mean and who is losing.

Understand the difference between change and action. Understand what it means to be a good part of your ecosystem. Play within structure, shift the meaning of things that appear already over-defined. Become the dependent co-arising of the narrative frame.

Resist. Listen. Bend. Live

Eleanor Saitta is Principal Security Engineer at the Open Internet Tools Project (OpenITP), directing the OpenITP Peer Review Board for open source software and working on adversary modelling. She is also Technical Director at the International Modern Media Institute (IMMI), a member of the advisory boards at Geeks Without Bounds (GWoB) and the Calyx Institute, and works on occasion as a Senior Security Associate with Stach & Liu.  She is a founder of the Constitutional Analysis Support Team (CAST), previously co-founded the Seattle-based Public N3rd Area hacker space, and works on the Trike and Briar projects.