IT both facilitates and complicates the human condition in the tradition of protesting. Activists and those supporting them need to be aware of the risks of social demonstrations. Here we dive into communication strategies for activists, as well as the basics of OPSEC. We discuss security hygiene in this context. We will also show these principles with case studies of the Civil rights movement, BLM, Hong Kong protests, Election protests, and recent hacktivist attacks against Parler and Gab.