Resisting Surveillance

frew
Posts: 37 Joined: 05-03-07
Submitted by frew on 19 April, 2007 - 02:12.

I have been asked to put together an article on resisting surveillance for my student paper.
I'm thinking of stuff like the CCTV monitoring of workers, checking employees Emails etc. although resisting public surveillance is probably just as important.
Anyone know of any good sites, articles, ideas?
I already plan to mention Zapatista, Black-Bloc habit of masking up but thats not very practicle for people at work...

2existis2resist
Posts: 44 Joined: 22-09-06 Location: Thirsk Yorkshire
19 April, 2007 - 12:03

Unlike the rest of those people offering useless theory I can offer some help to you sir:
On the subject of RFID chipping-www.notags.co.uk
As far as CCTV goes it is almost impossible to avoid, wearing hoods etc is the obvious choice. However from what I have read many CCTV cameras simply watch other CCTV cameras to avoid destruction by 'mindless' vandals. Depending on your area the shouting cameras can be safely ignored. Obviously resisting ID and never giving up your privacy as far as practicality ensues.

ALthough very 'wiberal' LIberty has some links on its privacy pages.
SOrry, that is as far as I can help.

Solidarity

Sam
Posts: 163 Joined: 01-11-06
19 April, 2007 - 12:21
Quote:
Unlike the rest of those people offering useless theory I can offer some help to you sir

grin
On the CCTV resistance, there's guide to CCTV destruction on schnews (Took off some other site called rtmark.com, i don't know if its of any help to you: http://www.schnews.org.uk/diyguide/guidetoclosedcircuittelevisioncctvdestruction.htm
Some anarchist friends from greece told me about this group there that was dedicated to destroying CCTV cameras, can't find anything about them though. In this country though i think it is mainly actions by small non formal groups or individuals (That's what i'd guess at least)

Joseph K. "the thinking man's idiot"
Posts: 8532 Joined: 14-03-06 Location: Brighton
19 April, 2007 - 12:24

someone once asked me to be the shooter (with an air rifle) and they'd be the getaway driver. they were mental though.

rkn
Posts: 7651 Joined: 17-07-06 Location: London
19 April, 2007 - 12:30
frew wrote:
I'm thinking of stuff like the CCTV monitoring of workers, checking employees Emails etc.

I think this is an interesting topic. I'm pretty sure there has been some discussion of it before. Definitely stuff on how to surf libcom at work and get away with it wink

captain soap
Posts: 40 Joined: 29-01-07 Location: Germany, Leipzig
19 April, 2007 - 12:34

Hey Frew, you're in Australia, right?
Have you thought about looking into the proposed ID card thing? Its quite a relevant issue at the moment and one that's not really getting any exposure. I don't know much about it myself, but a quite search of indymedia yields:
http://www.accesscardnoway.net/
which appears to run by the Democrats but potentially may have useful info.

weeler "temp banned"
Posts: 7293 Joined: 25-09-05 Location: Dublin
19 April, 2007 - 12:38

Anarchists who spend their time focussing on cctv might just miss the bigger picture. I've never been convicted of any crime because of cctv footage, it's never very useful (too fuzzy, hard to make out faces) and if the state wants to watch YOU then believe me they have much more sophisticated methods to do it. Special branch being a lot less conspicuous than a huge pole.

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3705 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
19 April, 2007 - 12:43
Quote:
Definitely stuff on how to surf libcom at work and get away with it

the Space Hijackers have a 'panic' button on their forums so when your boss comes along you just click it and the page changes to look like a boring spreadsheet cool

Joseph K. "the thinking man's idiot"
Posts: 8532 Joined: 14-03-06 Location: Brighton
19 April, 2007 - 12:56
ftony wrote:
Quote:
Definitely stuff on how to surf libcom at work and get away with it

the Space Hijackers have a 'panic' button on their forums so when your boss comes along you just click it and the page changes to look like a boring spreadsheet cool

we've discussed doing something like that, as well as a work-safe theme but trying to get the basics of the site working properly first (nearly there!)

frew
Posts: 37 Joined: 05-03-07
19 April, 2007 - 23:49

Thanks everyone.
Captain Soap: I think someone else might be writing up something on ID, but I'll post the link to the collective list. If not, I try and get something done on that too!
Had a next door neighbour who used to shoot out speed cameras...
Like the idea of a panic button, but I couldn't find the one on Space-Hijackers site (although I kinda remember seeing it before). Maybe I panicked.

jef costello "Beautiful, just like Nuremburg"
Posts: 9934 Joined: 09-02-06 Location: razorblade of apathy, shave me with your irony
22 April, 2007 - 14:09

You can also refuse to carry out surveillance tasks at work. For example NO2ID in Britain has ben advising workers on the legality of refusing to check ID of customers/clients. You could also sabotage them but that's a touch more risky.

Khawaga " - not a legendary physicist."
Posts: 1079 Joined: 07-08-06 Location: London, Ontario
22 April, 2007 - 15:58

There're lots of other aspects to surveillance as well. Using plastic instead of cash, (using ATMs and swiping card in stores), cell phones tapped and triangulated, cookies from webpages, targeted advertisement like Google's AdSense etc etc.

fkschulze "film the president pooping"
Posts: 123 Joined: 15-03-07 Location: United States, Texas
22 April, 2007 - 16:16
guydebordisdead wrote:
Anarchists who spend their time focussing on cctv might just miss the bigger picture. I've never been convicted of any crime because of cctv footage, it's never very useful (too fuzzy, hard to make out faces) and if the state wants to watch YOU then believe me they have much more sophisticated methods to do it. Special branch being a lot less conspicuous than a huge pole.

In the excellent documentary Terorister which i think you can find at video.indymedia.org, CCTV was used as evidence against these kids (unless i remember wrong), but one of these guys had dreads so he was easy to pick out. i dunno...

tenbull
Posts: 12 Joined: 08-04-07
22 April, 2007 - 18:33

If you want to have a really good proxy you could set up an ssh server at home and set it up as a SOCKS 5 proxy. This would be useful because everything from your work computer to your home server would be encrypted in the SSH tunnel, and on top of that, your HTTP traffic wouldn't be on port 80, so most system admins wouldn't even know you using a HTTP proxy, and if they did, they still couldn't read any of it, it's encrypted.

=)

fkschulze "film the president pooping"
Posts: 123 Joined: 15-03-07 Location: United States, Texas
24 April, 2007 - 20:26
tenbull wrote:
If you want to have a really good proxy you could set up an ssh server at home and set it up as a SOCKS 5 proxy. This would be useful because everything from your work computer to your home server would be encrypted in the SSH tunnel, and on top of that, your HTTP traffic wouldn't be on port 80, so most system admins wouldn't even know you using a HTTP proxy, and if they did, they still couldn't read any of it, it's encrypted.

=)

wow... that didn't make a bit of sense to me.. sad