Secure communications

Artists at Risk (AR) recommends keeping all communications as secure as possible.

Please note that there is no ultimate guarantee of security. Usually, the weakest point in security is due to lack of care in human interactions. Who do you share information with? How easy are your passwords to guess?  There are several guides on the web that help with internet security, but most have to do with who you share information with.

Google forms have a reasonably high standard of security. The applicant must use a Google email, so all information remains within the highly stable Google systems.

For highest level security, we use the secure chat Element on Matrix. This can be downloaded for mobile or desktop or used in a browser.

We use Element, as it does NOT require exchanging/sharing your phone number. Telephones / SIM-cards can be easily geo-located. That is, they can give away your location. So if you are at high risk, we recommend that you REMOVE ANY OLD SIM-CARDS. This means, you may not be able to access services like WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram that generally force you to use and share your phone number to get connected.

We currently use

• Element on Matrix
  
  • Read this for a detailed guide to setting up Element
  • If you have trouble connecting, please contact applications (at) perpetualmobile.org