Changelog

2024

June 15
June 10

Added technique Doxing. Renamed technique “Extra-legal violence” to Physical violence. Renamed technique “Physical surveillance: Mobile” to Physical surveillance: Covert. Split technique Service provider collaboration into sub-techniques Mobile network operators and Other. Added repressive operations Case against Peppy and Krystal and Fenix.

April 11

Updated technique Service provider collaboration with more details.

April 6

Added repressive operation 2013 case against Mónica and Francisco.

March 19

Updated mitigation Digital best practices with more details.

January 27

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.

January 7

Added repressive operation Case against Jeff Luers.

January 4

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

2023

November 20

Added new technique Open-source intelligence.

November 19

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.

November 14

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

November 12
November 11

Added tips on assessing the likelihood and impact of repressive techniques to the tutorial. Updated techniques Covert surveillance devices: Audio, Covert surveillance devices: Video, House raid and Targeted digital surveillance: IMSI-catcher with a discussion of their potential impacts.

October 10

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