2025
April 18
Added repressive operation Case against Louna.
April 4
Updated technique Detection dogs with more details.
April 2
Updated repressive operation Repression against Zündlumpen.
March 24
Updated technique Forensics: Handwriting analysis with more details.
March 13
Updated technique Forensics: Gait recognition with more details.
March 12
Added repressive operation Case against Ruslan Siddiqi.
February 15
Updated technique Forensics: Trace evidence with more details.
January 13
Added repressive operation 2011-2013 case against Jeremy Hammond.
January 3
Added repressive operation Case against Direct Action.
2024
December 13
Updated repressive operation December 8 case.
November 14
Improved the design of the home page.
August 30
Added a map of repressive operations.
July 11
Added repressive operations Bure criminal association case, December 8 case, and Warsaw 3.
July 3
Renamed technique “Covert house search” to Covert house visit.
June 15
Added technique Biased interpretation of evidence.
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.
February 16
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.
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 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
Updated repressive operation Repression of Lafarge factory sabotage.
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.