2024
Updated technique Service provider collaboration with more details.
Added repressive operation 2013 case against Mónica and Francisco.
Updated mitigation Digital best practices with more details.
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.
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.
Added repressive operation Case against Jeff Luers.
Updated the tutorial. Added mitigation Anonymous phones. Updated technique Service provider collaboration and mitigation Anonymous purchases with more details.
2023
Added new technique Open-source intelligence.
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.
Updated technique Forensics: Linguistics with more details and added mitigation Masking your writing style.
Operation Repression of Lafarge factory sabotage has been updated.
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.
The Threat Library changelog, that aims to track important changes to the Threat Library, is created.