Security Culture

Resources/Links

Debriefing

• Activist Trauma Support Collective. UK example.
• The Activist Survival Handbook. Stories, guides, advice and other useful information about activist survival and safety.

Rights

• ActivistRights.org.au. Legal information, resources and case studies.
• What If ASIO Visit? Practical advice and legal information.
• Anti-Terror Laws: ASIO, the Police and You. Guide by AMCRAN, the UTS Community Law Centre and the NSW Council for Civil Liberties on anti-terrorism laws in Australia.
• Guide to Police Interviews. LawStuff.org.au.

Decision Making

• Guide to Consensus Decision Making. Seeds for Change Collective.
• Dissensus Decision Making. John Michael Greer. Excerpt from The Ecotechnic Future, page 94-99, 246.
  ISBN 9780-86571-639-1. Link
• Facilitating Meetings. Seeds for Change Collective.

Computer Security

• Basic Internet Security. Practical guide to using encryption, setting up e-mail privacy, Operating System security, etc. Published by Floss-Manuals, Open-Source.
• Digital Security for Activists. Zine by the Riseup Collective.
• Tech Tools for Activists. Website providing tools such as VPN as well as specific guides for security and Internet privacy.
• TOR Software and Tails Live Boot Disc.
• Secure Data Erasure. Article from Wikipedia on data erasure techniques with some links to software under Implementations.
• TrueCrypt. Free, Open-Source encryption software

Direct Action

• Civilians guide to Direct Action. (PDF) Crimethinc Collective.
• Without A Trace: A Commonsense Guide to Forensics. US example.

Safety

• Black Cross Health Collective. Guides for basic First Aid, dealing with pepper spray, etc.
• Figures for Self Defence. Series of images on self defence techniques and personal safety.

Video

Don’t talk to the police — US. By James Duane and George Bruch.
Confessions of an undercover cop. UK. Channel 4. 2011.
END:CIV. US. By Submedia.tv. 2011.
McLibel. UK. Franny Armstrong. 2005.
If A Tree Falls. US. 2011.
COINTELPRO: The FBI’s War on Black America. US. Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller. 2009.

References

1. Spying on activists revealed, The Age. 16 October 2008: Link
2. Former police officer hired to spy, The Age. 17 October 2008: Link
   Infiltrating community groups has a long history, The Age. 16 October 2008: Link
3. Nonviolence Groups Infiltrated by Victoria Police: Link
4. Laser printers leaving secret marks, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Link
5. Rooted In Secrecy – The Clandestine Element of Australian Politics. Joan Coxsedge, Ken Coldicutt, Gerry Harant.
   ISBN 0959826025. Published 1982. Scenario For A Coup, Page 23-25.
6. ASIO spying on activists, The Age. 12 April 2012: Link
   ASIO eyes green groups, Sydney Morning Herald, National Times. 12 April 2012: Link
7. More powers, fewer rights, The Age. 26 February, 2013: Link
8. ASIO creates wiretap hub, ZDNet. 26 October 2010: Link
9. Spying on the Home Front, PBS Frontline. Documentary. 15 May 2007: Link
10. No more guns after ASIS hotel bungle, Sydney Morning Herald. 1 January 2013: Link
11. Canberra to let spies carry guns, The Age. 13 October 2003: Link
    ASIS gets a finger on the trigger, Sydney Morning Herald. 15 November 2004: Link
12. ASIO, Secrecy and Lack of Accountability. Legal immunity in ASIO and ASIS cases. December 2004: Link
13. Australia and the US agree on a spy satellite deal, Sydney Morning Herald. 7 February 2011: Link
14. Attack of the Drones, Al Jazeera English. Documentary. 4 September 2012: Link
15. Police may deploy spy drones, Sydney Morning Herald. 13 May 2012: Link
16. The CIA in Australia – Grievance Debate, Australian Parliament Hansard. 20 November 1986: Link
17. List of known ECHELON Bases, World Information Institute. 19 March 2012: Link
18. Report on the existence of ECHELON, European Parliament. 11 July 2001: Link
19. The Sydney Hilton Hotel Conspiracy. Documentary. 15 December 2007: Link
20. Private agency paid to monitor protest groups, Brisbane Times. 7 January 2012: Link
21. Desal company spying, The Age. 14 March 2010: Link
22. FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool, CNet News. 1 December 2006: Link
23. If A Tree Falls, Marshall Curry, Matthew Hamachek, Sam Cullman. 19 March 2011: Link
24. For example, the Slinky 16000 Bionic Ear Electronic Listening Device, available for sale online.
25. Council points CCTV camera at public toilet urinal, The Advertiser, Adelaide. 6 January 2011: Link
26. GigaPan Panoramas turn crowd-photos into surveillance art, Eliot Van Buskirk. 10 May 2012: Link
    World’s highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA. LiveLeak: Link
27. Big Brother Big Business, CNBC. 11 July 2006: Link
28. Centrelink goes biometric, The Australian. 26 May 2009: Link
29. Autonomous and Scalable Crowd Surveillance, Dezhen Song, Texas A&M. 2010: Link
30. Crowd-sourcing used to trace London riot suspects, BBC News. 26 June 2012: Link
31. The NSA is building the country’s biggest spy centre, James Bamford. 15 March 2012: Link
32. Beware of the police bearing lists, Sydney Morning Herald. 6 September 2008: Link
33. Mutiny Collective – Smear Campaign, Wikipedia. 4 March 2012: Link
34. Police handed data on Myki users, The Age. 18 September 2012: Link
35. Facial Recognition by Google Image Search, Media Watch. 9 July 2012: Link
    New software mines social network data like a ‘Google for spies’, The Guardian. 10 February, 2013: Link
36. Robot Wars, Josh Rushing, Documentary. 19 February 2012: Link
37. Police use special powers against protestors in Newcastle, Sydney Morning Herald. 14 July 2008: Link
38. The Gunns 20 Case. ActivistRights.org.au 2009: Link
39. Activists protest over police raids, West Australian News. 15 October 2011: Links