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Threat Library: Updated technique Service provider collaboration with more details.

Threat Library: Added repressive operation 2013 case against Mónica and Francisco.

New resource translation: (en) DNA You Say? Burn Everything to Burn Longer: A Guide to Leaving No Traces

Updated resource: (fr) DNA You Say? Burn Everything to Burn Longer: A Guide to Leaving No Traces

New resource translation: (en) You Can't Catch What You Can't See: Against Video Surveillance

Threat Library: Updated mitigation Digital best practices with more details.

New resource: (en) How to submit an anonymous communiqué and get away with it

We did an interview with the anarchist radio show The Final Straw Radio. Both the audio and the transcript can be found here.

New resource translation: (el) The Guide to Peer-to-Peer, Encryption, and Tor: New Communication Infrastructure for Anarchists

New resource: (en) Developing Action Capacity: A Path

New resource translations:

• (el) Strategies for Countering Police Access to DNA Data
• (el) Minimizing DNA Traces During Riotous Moments

Threat Library: Updated mitigations Anonymous dress, Anti-surveillance, Bug search, Compartmentalization, Digital best practices, DNA minimization protocols, Encryption, Fake ID, Metadata erasure and resistance, Reconnaissance, Stash spot or safe house, Surveillance detection, and Tamper-evident preparation with more details.

Threat Library: Split technique “Mass surveillance: Routine police surveillance” into two new techniques, Police patrols and Mass surveillance: Police files. Renamed technique “Targeted ID checks” to ID checks and updated it with more details. Updated technique IMSI-catcher. Added mitigation Background checks. Added repressive operation Case against Boris.

Threat Library: Added repressive operation Case against Jeff Luers.

Threat Library: Updated the tutorial. Added mitigation Anonymous phones. Updated technique Service provider collaboration and mitigation Anonymous purchases with more details.

New resources:

• (en) Towery: Story of an Informant
• (en) Without a trace

New resource: (en) Threat Modeling Fundamentals

New resource translation: (it) Guide d'autodéfense numérique

New Ears and Eyes case: Barcelona (Spain), December 2023

New resource: (en) Crossing the U.S./Canada Border: A Proposal for Best Practices

New resource translation: (fr) Stop Hunting Sheep: A Guide to Creating Safer Networks

New resource translation: (en) Measures Against Surveillance

Threat Library: Added new technique Open-source intelligence.

Threat Library: Reworked the Physical Surveillance technique, which is now split into three sub-techniques describing different aspects of it: Aerial, Overt, and Mobile. Added a new repressive operation, Repression of the 2019 uprising in Chile.

New Ears and Eyes case: Lecce (Italy), November 2023

Threat Library: Updated technique Forensics: Linguistics with more details and added mitigation Masking your writing style.

New resource: (en) How To Have A Fun Night To Forget

Threat Library: Operation Repression of Lafarge factory sabotage has been updated.

Threat Library: Tips on assessing the likelihood and impact of repressive techniques have been added to the tutorial. Techniques Covert surveillance devices: Audio, Covert surveillance devices: Video, House raid and Targeted digital surveillance: IMSI-catcher have been updated with a discussion of their potential impacts.

New resource: (en/fr) The “Lafarge” Case: The Investigation Methods Used and Some Lessons to Be Learned

New resource: (en/fr) Cars as Cameras: A Short Overview of Tesla Surveillance Features and Lessons for Attack

Threat Library: The Threat Library changelog, that aims to track important changes to the Threat Library, is created.

The Counter-Surveillance Resource Center becomes the No Trace Project, now accessible at notrace.how.

New Ears and Eyes case: Pozzuoli (Italy), September 2023

New Ears and Eyes case: Bremen (Germany), August 2023

Updated Ears and Eyes case: Paris (France), April 2022

New Ears and Eyes case: Leipzig (Germany), August 2023

New Ears and Eyes case: American Midwest (United States), July 2023

New Ears and Eyes case: Trieste (Italy), July 2023

New resource: (en) Turn off your phone! And other basic digital security strategies

New resource translations: (de/es/fr) Why Misogynists Make Great Informants

New resource: (fr) Comment se protéger et protéger nos luttes : premiers pas dans la mise en place de pratiques de sécurité

New resources:

• (fr) You Can't Catch What You Can't See: Against Video Surveillance
• (de/en/fr) We Are Conspiring: Update on the Current Investigation

New resource translation: (es) Green Scared?

New Ears and Eyes case: Sassari (Italy), June 2023

New Ears and Eyes case: Grenoble (France), April 2023

New Ears and Eyes cases:

• Berlin (Germany), July 2011
• Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), January 2014

New Ears and Eyes case: Hamburg (Germany), May 2023

New resource: (en/fr) Minimizing DNA Traces During Riotous Moments

New resource: (de/fr) Wie die Polizei verhört und wie wir uns dagegen verteidigen können

New resource translations:

• (fr) A recipe for nocturnal direct actions
• (fr) Shane: an undercover cop in Hamilton, Ontario

New resource translation: (fr) The Guide to Peer-to-Peer, Encryption, and Tor: New Communication Infrastructure for Anarchists

New resource translation: (fr) Confidence, Courage, Connection, Trust: A proposal for security culture

New Ears and Eyes cases:

• Athens (Greece), October 2019
• Bad Oldesloe (Germany), March 2007
• Barcelona (Spain), October 2013
• Bavaria (Germany), November 2022
• Beijing (China), October 2015
• Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), September 2004
• Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), May 2015
• Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), February 2018
• Berlin (Germany), July 1988
• Berlin (Germany), May 2007
• Berlin (Germany), November 2020
• Berlin (Germany), August 2022
• Besançon (France), March 2021
• Bologna (Italy), March 2005
• Bologna (Italy), July 2007
• Bologna (Italy), June 2009
• Bologna (Italy), January 2018
• Bologna (Italy), January 2018
• Bordighera (Italy), May 2012
• Boulder (United States), July 2003
• Bremen (Germany), December 2022
• Brussels (Belgium), May 2011
• Cagliari (Italy), November 2017
• Cagliari (Italy), September 2018
• Cagliari (Italy), October 2018
• Cincinnati (United States), February 2008
• County Armagh, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), August 2008
• Cappagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), September 2014
• County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), May 2021
• Craigavon, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), December 2013
• Cremona (Italy), January 2018
• Cremona (Italy), February 2019
• Unknown country, March 2018
• Cuneo (Italy), June 2019
• Derry, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), June 2005
• Derry, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), June 2012
• Derry, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), February 2021
• Dijon (France), October 2022
• Donostia, Basque Country (Spain), August 2007
• Basque Country (Spain), September 2007
• Florence (Italy), January 2011
• Foligno (Italy), October 2022
• Follonica (Italy), February 2020
• France, March 2011
• Genoa (Italy), October 2009
• Genoa (Italy), June 2014
• Genoa (Italy), June 2018
• Genoa (Italy), August 2021
• Greece, August 2019
• Grenoble (France), August 2018
• Ireland, March 2019
• Italy, May 2010
• Italy, August 2019
• Lecce (Italy), September 2017
• Lecce (Italy), December 2017
• Lecco (Italy), April 2010
• Lecco (Italy), October 2010
• Leipzig (Germany), May 2013
• Leipzig (Germany), March 2014
• Leipzig (Germany), May 2014
• Leipzig (Germany), November 2021
• Levin (New Zealand), April 2010
• London (United Kingdom), April 2018
• Lübeck (Germany), April 2013
• Lurgan, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), June 2014
• Milan (Italy), November 2010
• Milan (Italy), November 2010
• Milan (Italy), September 2012
• Modena (Italy), December 2015
• Moscow (Russia), December 2020
• Naples (Italy), October 2012
• Naples (Italy), February 2013
• Naples (Italy), February 2013
• Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), December 1999
• Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), June 2013
• Palermo (Italy), June 2013
• Paris (France), September 2015
• Paris (France), April 2022
• Pescara (Italy), April 2015
• Pisa (Italy), May 2012
• Pisa (Italy), January 2020
• Rome (Italy), April 2018
• Rome (Italy), November 2022
• Rovereto (Italy), November 2004
• Sarthe (France), September 2018
• Sevreau (France), March 2022
• Stuttgart (Germany), June 2013
• Turin (Italy), June 2007
• Turin (Italy), February 2014
• Turin (Italy), May 2014
• Turin (Italy), March 2019
• Trento (Italy), December 2017
• Trento (Italy), December 2017
• Trento (Italy), March 2019
• United States, 2005
• United States, 2014
• Urrugne, Basque Country (Spain), August 2011
• Valencia (Spain), March 2015
• Viterbo (Italy), March 2008
• ZAD du carnet (France), August 2020

New resource: (de/el/en/fr/pt/ru) CSRC Bulletin

New resource: (de/en) Strategies for Countering Police Access to DNA Data

New resource: (de/en/fr) “They're not stupid. They don't take their cell phones with them, of course.”

New resource translation: (fr) Who wrote that?

New resource: (de/en) Who wrote that?

New resource: (fr) Guide d'autodéfense numérique

New resource: (en/fr) Overview of Police Investigations Tied to a Combative Demo Against Mega-Basins

New resource: (en/fr) Some Initial Notes on the Investigation File Against Ivan

New resource: (de/en/fr) Latest developments and context concerning the 129 trial in Munich or: The persecution of anarchists and cigarette butts in the Bavarian-Christian kingdom

New resource: (en) The Guide to Peer-to-Peer, Encryption, and Tor: New Communication Infrastructure for Anarchists

New resource: (de/en/es) About Orwell and the case of Mónica and Francisco

New resources:

• (en) Shane: an undercover cop in Hamilton, Ontario
• (en) Snitches & Sleuths: An Update From Puget Sound Prisoner Support

New resources:

• (en) A recipe for nocturnal direct actions
• (en) Green Scared?

New resource translation: (es) Incognito: experiences that defy identification

New resource: (en) Organizing Against the G20 in Toronto: Interview with Mandy Hiscocks

New resource translations:

• (en) Let's destroy the cameras
• (en) Analysis of the file for putting three anarchists under surveillance

New resources:

• (fr) Let's destroy the cameras
• (de/fr) Analysis of the file for putting three anarchists under surveillance

New resource translation: (it) Surveillance and Other Nuisances

New resource: (en) Practical Linux forensics: a guide for digital investigators

New resource translations: (el/en/fr) 5 widely accessible ways to take down drones

New resource: (it) A proposito di meta-dati e telefoni spenti

New resources:

• (it) 5 widely accessible ways to take down drones
• (it) FAQ DNA: ovvero un piccolo squarcio su alcune misconcezioni comuni a proposito del DNA e del suo utilizzo in campo penale

New resource translations:

• (it) On the tightrope: Contributions and considerations from and for the anarchic combat
• (it) Radio silence
• (it) Never turn off the phone: A new approach to security culture
• (it) Security & Counter-Surveillance: Information Against the Police State
• (it) What remains is grief, anger and incomprehension

New resource: (de) Umgang mit DNA in der Praxis

New resource translation: (en) Surveillance and Other Nuisances

New resource translation: (de) It's not just their techno-surveillance tools in our lives, it's the lice too

New resource translation: (fr) To (try to) keep the cops at bay

New resource: (en/sv) To (try to) keep the cops at bay

New resource: (en/fr) It's not just their techno-surveillance tools in our lives, it's the lice too

New resource translation: (fr) Surveillance and Other Nuisances

New resource: (de) Surveillance and Other Nuisances

New resource: (de) How to Digitale Sicherheit

New resource translation: (it) ¡Quema tu móvil!

New resource: (de/en/fr) Radio silence

New resource: (de) Interview mit Thomas Meyer-Falk zu Überwachung im Knast

New resource: (de) Get Connected: Archiv

New resources:

• (de) Die lange Suche nach einem Rucksack
• (de) Enttarnung der ehemaligen verdeckten Ermittlerin Maria “Block” / Böhmichen
• (de) Rechercheartikel zur Enttarnung eines V-Manns der Staatsschutzbehörden NRW
• (de/en) What remains is grief, anger and incomprehension

New resources:

• (de) Fit für Aktion: Digitale Sicherheit
• (it) La scienza al servizio della repressione
• (de) Podcast zu Klandestinität
• (it) Sul prelievo del DNA e perché rifiutarlo
• (es/it) Tracce : sulle tracce di DNA

New resource translations:

• (it) Refuser le fichage ADN: Pourquoi ? Comment ?
• (de) What Is Security Culture?

New resource translations: (es/it) Creating a Clean Room

New resource: (de) Schöner leben ohne Spitzel

New resource: (es) Drones de vigilancia en Chile

New resources:

• (es/it) Exclusión: ninguna coincidencia
• (en/fr/it) The world in a spit
• (es) Mil sabots: Mil maneras de acabar con el control

New resources:

• (de) Brandstiftungen an Kraftfahrzeugen (Deutsches Polizeiblatt)
• (en) Digital Defense
• (en/it/pt) Doxcare: Prevention and Aftercare for Those Targeted by Doxxing and Political Harassment
• (de/en) Dangerous Friendships
• (de) Mantrailing für den Realeinsatz: Hunde als Geruchsdetektive
• (de) Observation: Praxisleitfaden für private und behördliche Ermittlungen
• (de) Observationen gegen die Radikal-Redaktion 1993-1995
• (de) Spitzel: Eine kleine Sozialgeschichte
• (en) Toronto G20 Main Conspiracy Group: The Charges and How They Came To Be
• (de) Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht! Auswertung der Akten “militante Kampagne gegen G8”.

New resource: (en) London Calling: a cellphone and internet security primer for the criminally-minded anarchist

New resource: (en) Defend dissent

New resources:

• (en) Cover your forehead! And other lessons from pax
• (en/id/pt) Fashion Tips for the Brave
• (fr) Point sécu : le “kiosk”, arme ultime de la police ?
• (en) Secrets & Lies

New resource translation: (en) Tips and Tricks for Riots

New resources:

• (de) Kriminaltechnik: Expertise
• (de) Prisma
• (de) Tips and Tricks for Riots
• (de) Vorsicht Spuren!

New resource translations: (en/it) Text by the detained comrades of Nea Filadelphia case

New resource: (en/fr) We're being watched: poke their eyes out

New resource translation: (en) Taking ourselves seriously: digital harm reduction

New resource: (fr) DNA You Say? Burn Everything to Burn Longer: A Guide to Leaving No Traces

New resources:

• (de) Gegen Repression in Leipzig & sonstwo
• (de) Leitfaden zum Datenzugriff: insbesondere für den Bereich der Telekommunikation

New resources:

• (es) Consejos útiles a la hora de acudir a una manifestación
• (en/es/fr/pt) How To Form an Affinity Group: Essential Building Blocks of Anarchist Organization

New resources:

• (en) Choosing Your Friends Wisely for Illegal Activities
• (en) Guide to Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) destruction
• (en) How to ZAP a Camera: Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors
• (en) Investigators' Dirty Tricks
• (en) Operational Security Guide

New resource: (de/en) Magazine for the promotion of resistance against the digital attack

New resources:

• (de/en) An activist's guide to information security
• (fr) ADN, au-delà du “non” : un petit texte sur l'état de la lutte contre le fichage ADN, à partir d'un cas pratique
• (en/fr/it) A few clarifications concerning a Key-logger installed in my computer
• (en) Anonymity/Security
• (el) Antiforensics Project
• (en) Atlas of Surveillance (United States)
• (fr) Au diapason de la répression : dix ans de mandat d'arrêt européen
• (en) Automated suspicion: The EU's new travel surveillance initiatives
• (el) Βασικές αρχές αντιπαρακολούθησης
• (en/es/it) Blinding the Cyclops: Camera Hunting in the Metropolis
• (fr) Brochure d'information et de soutien contre le fichage ADN
• (el/en/fr) Burner Phone Best Practices
• (pt) Cartilha básica de segurança militante
• (pt) Cartilha de Segurança para Internet
• (ru) Что делать с компьютерной техникой после обыска, изъятия и возврата
• (en/ru) Civil society, secrecy and surveillance in Belarus
• (fr) Combattre la biométrie
• (en/es/fr) A communique by a comrade on the run, Diego Rios
• (en) Confidence, Courage, Connection, Trust: A proposal for security culture
• (es) Consejos básicos sobre seguridad
• (en) Creating a Clean Room
• (en) Damage control: the story of how one activist group kept ourselves safe and strong in the face of movement infiltration
• (cz/en) Disappearing From State Control: Three texts about the disappearance of Lukáš Borl
• (en/fr) Doorbell Surveillance Cameras Removed and Destroyed
• (fr) Du sang, de la chique et du mollard ! Sur l'ADN.
• (en) Printer Tracking: Is Your Printer Spying On You?
• (de/en/es/fr) On the tightrope: Contributions and considerations from and for the anarchic combat
• (el) Ενάντια στα social media
• (en) FADe: Fake Antenna Detection Project
• (de/en/fr/it) Fantasma
• (el) Για τις τεχνικές απόκρυψης του δικτύου Tor
• (pt) Guia de Autodefesa Digital
• (es) Guía de Protección Digital
• (fr) Guide de survie en protection numérique à l'usage des militant.es
• (en) Hacking//Hustling (United States)
• (en/pt) Holistic Security
• (en) How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption
• (en) How To Prevent Facial Recognition Technology From Identifying You
• (en) How to Shoot Down a Drone
• (en) In Defense of Smashing Cameras
• (en/fr/nl) Incognito: experiences that defy identification
• (fr) Infiltration du Groupe anti-répression Lausanne par une agente de Securitas
• (en) Infiltrators, Informers and Grasses: how, why, and what to do if your group is targeted
• (fr) Investigations & téléphonie mobile : le guide à l'usage des avocats
• (cz/ru) Jak ničit kamery
• (ru) Как ловят преступников использующих телефон
• (ru) Как найти Wi-Fi устройство при помощи направленной антенны
• (ru) Как обойти блокировку Tor
• (ru) Как вычисляют кто работает с левой сим-карты?
• (el) Text by the detained comrades of Nea Filadelphia case
• (fr) L'informatique: se défendre et attaquer
• (fr) La folle volonté de tout contrôler : les fichiers d'identification administrative, de police, de justice et de renseignement
• (fr) La reconnaissance faciale dans les fichiers de police
• (es) La tiranía de la imagen o porqué no grabar en las manifestaciones
• (fr) L'apparence de la certitude : l'ADN comme “preuve” scientifique et judiciaire
• (ru) Личная безопасность граждан (Белоруссия)
• (en) Locking down Signal
• (de) Measures Against Surveillance
• (fr) Mauvaises intentions : autour du procès antiterroriste pour 6 camarades en mai 2012
• (el) Μέθοδοι παρακολούθησης οχημάτων από την αστυνομία και μερικές πρακτικές διαπιστώσεις πάνω στην αντιπαρακολούθηση
• (el) Μπροσούρα για αυτοπροστασία : Συλλογή κειμένων για την αντιμετώπιση της καταστολής
• (cz) Nenechat se chytit: Černorudá příručka
• (en/es/fr/ru) Never turn off the phone: A new approach to security culture
• (el) Οδηγός αυτοπροστασίας : Ίχνη
• (en) Outrun the Bear: ProtonMail is Not for Activists
• (fr) “Ouvrez la bouche”, dit le policier : deux textes sur l'usage de l'ADN dans la machine judiciaire
• (el) Taking ourselves seriously: digital harm reduction
• (el) Παρακολούθηση κινητών τηλεφώνων : μέτρα αντιπαρακολούθησης
• (en) A Practical Security Handbook for Activists and Campaigns
• (ru) Проект KIPOD. Как нас идентифицируют на улице
• (en) Profiles of provocateur
• (es/eu) ¡Quema tu móvil!
• (en) Rats!
• (en) Rebel Alliance Tech Manual
• (fr) Refuser le fichage ADN: Pourquoi ? Comment ?
• (en) Reports on Targeted Surveillance of Civil Society
• (es) Resistencia Digital : Manual de seguridad operacional e instrumental para smartphones
• (en) Right2Know (South Africa)
• (ru) Russian cypherpunks community
• (en/es) Security & Counter-Surveillance: Information Against the Police State
• (en) Security Culture: a comprehensive guide
• (en/pt) Security culture: a handbook for activists
• (en/fr/pt) Signal Fails
• (ru) Сотовые телефоны и их безопасное использование
• (en) Stop Hunting Sheep: A Guide to Creating Safer Networks
• (en) Street-Level Surveillance: A Guide to Law Enforcement Spying Technology
• (am/ar/en/es/fr/pt/ru/tr/vi) Surveillance Self-Defense: Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications
• (en) Suspicion files: German police databases on political activists
• (fr) Technopolice
• (en) The Global Surveillance Industry
• (en) The Hitchhiker's Guide to Online Anonymity
• (en) The invisible ground: honoring each others security needs as an act of liberation & solidarity
• (en) The role of technology in illegal push-backs from Croatia to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia
• (en) Traffic correlation using netflows
• (en/fr) Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada
• (fr) TuTORiel Tails
• (es) Un paso adelante del enemigo
• (en) Undercover policing: the “alphabet soup” of cross-border networks, groups and projects
• (en) Undercover Research Project
• (en/es/fr/id/pt) What Is Security Culture?
• (en) Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
• (en) Without a trace
• (en) Without a trace: A Commonsense Guide to Forensics