Subj : Re: Covert Christian Evangelism in the Darknet
To   : warmfuzzy
From : Greenlfc
Date : Wed Sep 14 2022 09:42:46

I've been thinking about this a lot lately.  Everyone thinks of China when they're thinking about Christian persecution, but India is just as bad, if not worse.  Our church has missionaries there, but they're unable to send back accurate reports of what's happening due to the risk to their lives and mission, so we really only hear from them every few years when they come back to report or we send a team to them.

Even sending teams is risky, since they assume if you're white (or American) that you're a Christian, so great care has to be taken to ensure that the missionaries aren't compromised.

It seems to me that a multi-stage library would be best.  Standard translations and scholarly texts (Strong's Concordance, for example) would be a sort of "Tier 1", followed by works by Spurgeon, Calvin, Lewis, etc, as a "Tier 2", selected audio as "Tier 3", and selected video as "Tier 4".

That library could be distributed via Tor hidden services, bittorrent, and so on.  Truecrypt hidden volumes could be used on microsd media, under the guise of camera gear, for example) to carry the library into the persecuted country.

Of course, communications would need to take place via alternative channels, such as coded messages via stego, PGP encrypted messages via tormail, etc.

Perhaps there's a play for making a playbook for using TAILS for missionaries...

Just my stream of consciousness...

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