>>2754061It must be stated plainly that the techniques related to coding / hacking described remain illegal under computer fraud and hacking statutes, regardless of the nobility of one’s intentions. The surveillance and counter-surveillance that doesn't involve network infiltration, is not illegal, but this doesn't always matter. If Obama's FBI had no problem sending JTTF swat to raid anarcho-stalinist's NYC homes for running perfectly legal command centers that exposed police activity, imagine what trumps FBI would do to you for this. So far most people ICE has murdered was a direct result of them feeling as if they were being followed. So deploying tools for counter‑surveillance however justified it may feel carries real criminal exposure. Any attempt to pursue such methods no matter how legal, should be conducted with strict operational security, never from a network tied to your residence, never on a device that contains your personal identity, always behind a hardened operating system and routed through Tor or a comparable anonymity layer. Should you succeed in unsettling individuals with sufficient resources, expect retaliation through covert means of attack or prosecution, often under stalking or harassment charges tailored to fit whatever you have done (think Houdini). The asymmetry that gives you power also paints a target on your back. Move accordingly.
If you are big on documenting and research, and this peaks your interest, I suggest forming a proper journalist NGO, it's not hard to register or get an LLC, so you can formally exist. It's amazing what being an investigative journalist can provide for you in terms of legal protection. This is how the paparazzi operate. I'm only researching for journalistic reasons, this is not cyber stalking, no. No, I'm not here to stalk you, I'm not stalking you sir, I'm getting pictures of your face for "the media". Bring it to court, then you have a real media team on paper, and who ever is attempting to accuse you of "stalking" is likely to be in a position where it looks as if they're attacking freedom of press. This is the method I would most suggest, and none of my comrades move without this. Talk to lawyers that specify in protecting activists, either left leaning or libertarian lawyer groups, you'd be surprised at how willingly a lot of them represent your "media team" for free or low prices.
You can use your home network to have A.I explore your home surveillance, and your blocks surveillance (if you are an organizer, you need to have cameras outside of your house, and in the vicinity of your house. start thinking like high level drug dealers when it comes to opsec and be less cucked out). I suggest using your own A.I and getting more traditional wired cameras, and/or trail cameras rather than something like RING, for obvious reasons. You can still have a.i software run and observe anomalies on the camera.
This is the type of things leftists are missing by not having a proper, well functioning security system in their spaces / homes. I'm shocked how this isn't the norm, because of the knee jerk reaction to "security cameras" a lot of of leftists have -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkktSQNP5-g