Cuidando la Red — Zine de Seguridad Digital
Summary
Cuidando la Red is a Spanish-language printable zine on digital security for activists, with particular attention to protest-day contexts (phone wiping, secure-messaging setup, what to take and what to leave at home). It is the principal Spanish-language entry point in its niche and ships as a foldable PDF for distribution at actions.
Body
The zine is structured around the practical decisions an organiser or participant faces in the 24 hours before and after a protest: which phone to bring, what to do with the phone that stays home, which messaging app to install and how, how to handle photos and recordings without metadata leaking, and what to do if the phone is seized. [source: cuidando-la-red-zine] Sections are short, image-heavy, and printable in a foldable format intended to be carried in a pocket and passed along. [source: cuidando-la-red-zine]
The tone is deliberately non-technical: the page treats digital security as a hygiene question rather than a programming question, and it assumes the reader has not configured a privacy tool before. [source: cuidando-la-red-zine] Recommendations are specific (Signal over WhatsApp, with disappearing-message timers set; burner accounts where the existing one is linked to a real identity; minimal app installation before the action) and are pitched to the Latin American protest context where participants often face state surveillance, paramilitary retaliation, or arrest-without-warrant scenarios. [source: cuidando-la-red-zine]
The zine is published under a Creative Commons license permitting reuse with attribution; the wiki paraphrases and links rather than reproducing the printable artwork or extended passages. [source: cuidando-la-red-zine] It is distributed via allied organisations across Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia, and is one of the few Spanish-language digital-security resources specifically designed for street actions rather than for office-based human-rights work. [source: cuidando-la-red-zine]
Use it for
A pre-action briefing for Spanish-speaking participants; a printable handout to distribute at trainings; a Spanish-language counterpoint to the predominantly English-language digital-security canon.