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Security & Counter-Surveillance Security & Counter-Surveillance Information Against the Police State Revised & Updated: New Surveillance Technology & Techniques New Section on Informant & Infiltration Operations Contents Big Brother is watching, more than 2009 edition; Vancouver, Canada/Coast Salish Territory ever before 1.Introduction_________________________3 In countless ways, surveillance is 2. Surveillance 3 emerging as the dominant way the 3. Security 3 modern world organizes itself. 4. Principles of Surveillance 3 5. Physical Surveillance______________ 4 Britain now has an estimated 4.2 million Operator's & Vehicles 4 CCTV cameras—one for every 14 citizens. Fixed Surveillance 4 People in central London are now caught on Mobile Surveillance 4 camera about 300 times a day. Four Phases of Mobile_____________ 5 Other Forms 5 Surveillance is a condition of modernity, 6. Technical Surveillance 5 integral to the development of the nation- Telecommunications 5 state and capitalism... Listening Devices__________________6 Parabolic Mics 6 More than ever before, our lives are visible Video Cameras____________________ 7 to others, from government agencies and security services to the owners of the Still Photography 7 websites we surf and the stores where we Tracking Devices 7 shop. They track us in public, in Night Vision & Thermal 7 workplaces and online, compiling our Biometrics_________________________8 personal information in massive databases UAV's 8 and sorting us into categories of risk, value Satellite 8 and trustworthiness. 7. Surveillance Detection_____________9 Physical Surveillance 9 CCTV cameras are just one of their tools. Technical Surveillance____________10 Others include radio frequency Security Against Technical 10 identification (RFID) chips, GPS location 8. Surveillance and Evasion_________13 trackers, website cookies, facial recognition software and store loyalty cards. Computer 9. Informants & Infiltrators 13 programs used by security services can Dealing with/_____________________15 monitor and analyze billions of phone calls 10. FBI Cointel-Pro__________________ 16 and e-mails in real time. We even make it Cointel-Pro Techniques 16 easier for our trackers by willingly Cointel-Pro Case Studies_________ 18 disclosing pieces of our lives on social 11. Case Studies of Informants networking sites like Facebook or in online and Infiltrators_________________18 contests & questionnaires. 12. Security Guidelines_____________19 In one form or another, surveillance has always been a part of human society. What's new is computer technology that "Those in authority fear the has made it possible to integrate vast and mask for their power partly diverse bits of information. As well, our resides in identifying, stamping post-9/11 obsession with eliminating risk and cataloguing: in knowing who has produced an architecture of mass you are... our masks are not to surveillance in which everyone is treated as conceal our identity but to reveal a suspect. it...” Don Butler, “Big Brother is watching, more than ever Text on inside of 9,000 masks before”, Vancouver Sun, Feb. 3, 2009 distributed at the Carnival Against Capitalism, London, June 1999 And for those who really are 'suspects', read on... 2 cameras, in stores, banks, malls, offices, schools, transit, streets 1. Introduction & intersections. In rural areas, physical surveillance is more often Security is vital to the success & survival of the necessary due to the lack of telecommunications, roads, etc. resistance movement. This is because we have an enemy who Low population densities also serve to identify surveillance actively works to undermine, neutralize, & ultimately destroy operators as ‘outsiders’. For these reasons, physical us. Failure to remain aware of security concerns can mean the surveillance in rural areas often requires long-range observation difference between victory or defeat, freedom or imprisonment, (by ground teams, aircraft, or satellite in high priority life or death. Not only for yourself, but others around you. situations). In some cases, police in military-style camouflage Information gathered from various sources, & that is secretly conduct surveillance at a much closer range. subjected to analysis & comparison, is called intelligence. The gathering of intelligence is a vital part of counter-insurgency operations, without which the enemy does not know who, what, 3. Security where or when to strike. Security & Counter-Surveillance measures are Security n. 1. Measures adopted to guard against attack, theft designed to limit & deny the flow of information to enemy or disclosure. 2. Something that gives or assures safety & forces. It is based on the principle that counter-insurgency is a confidence… permanent part of society and that those engaged in resistance are always vulnerable to surveillance & repression. As noted, the purpose of security is to protect our movement. A vital part of this is to limit or deny the flow of 2. Surveillance information to enemy forces. The following 4 principles should be seen as basic & fundamental security guidelines: Surveillance is the continuous, secretive observation of 1. Do not send or discuss sensitive information over persons, places, things or objects, in order to gain information. any form of telecommunications (phone, cell, internet, etc.), all of which are vulnerable to There are two types of surveillance: physical & technical. interception. Cell Phones can be made into active listening devices and should have their batteries Physical surveillance is carried out by enemy personnel removed before discussing any secret information. on foot and/or by vehicle. It is the only way a target person can 2. Never discuss sensitive information in any enclosed be continuously observed over an extended period of time. area vulnerable to listening devices (i.e., homes, Surveillance teams can be comprised of two persons in one vehicles, cafes, etc.). vehicle, or a dozen operators in six vehicles (or even more, of 3. Follow the Need-to-Know-Only Rule: If a person is course). In addition, motorcycles, bikes, planes & helicopters not involved in the information, then they do not need may also be used. to know its contents. The less a person knows, the less In this category we must also consider informants, danger there is they can tell others. infiltrators & collaborators. They may be police agents, civilians recruited by police, or former comrades. This form of 4. Avoid those unable to follow basic security codes. physical surveillance is the main source of intelligence on They are a danger to you and the movement. This people’s thoughts, plans & activities. It is sometimes referred includes persons who talk too much, who do not take to as ‘human intelligence’. Because of the sensitive nature of security seriously, alcoholics, etc. personal information they are able to gather, and their ability to influence events, infiltrators & informants are especially 4. Principles of Surveillance dangerous. Technical surveillance is far more common. With As noted, surveillance is the secretive, continuous widespread use of telecommunications (phone, cell, pager, watching of a person, place, vehicle, or object in order to gain internet, fax), technical surveillance is a main source of information. In order to be effective, surveillance must go intelligence on a person’s day to day activities, contacts, unnoticed and be undetected. As soon as the target is aware he/ personal relationships, etc. More generally, it consists of she is under surveillance, they will alter their behavior & technical devices to record, document or monitor a target conceal any ‘suspicious’ activities, as well as stop the flow of individual’s movements, conversations, or activities. This information. For this reason, surveillance can be difficult to includes listening devices in homes & cars, tapped telephones, detect because it strives to be covert & hidden. monitoring of internet activity, CCTV video, tracking devices, Developing information through surveillance is a night-vision devices, etc. progressive & often lengthy process. It is from many pieces of information that an overall picture of the target’s patterns is The urban environment is far more conducive to developed. surveillance, due to the large masses of people, Surveillance will normally begin with limited communications & electrical systems, structures, & vehicles in information on a targeted individual’s activities, a residence or which operators & devices can be concealed. In the city, there workplace, etc. More info will be developed in order to are also tens of thousands of CCTV video identify times, locations, routes of travel, or activities on which 3 to focus the surveillance effort (referred to as a target pattern Fixed Surveillance analysis). Fixed surveillance (meaning it doesn't move) is set up The more extensive the surveillance effort, the greater around a target’s home, a business, etc., to observe activities, the amount of intelligence produced. The extent of surveillance patterns of movement, associations, or even to begin depends upon the importance placed on the target by police- surveillance of a target expected to appear at the location intelligence, and the target’s expected level of awareness & (stakeout). Another term for a fixed surveillance position is counter-surveillance knowledge (soft target vs. hard target). Observation Post (OP). Just reading this manual can make you a harder target. It is usually conducted from overlooking positions Because of the resources & capabilities of our enemy,
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