Counter Surveillance

In this section you will find Counter Surveillance guides and handbooks. Full blown counter surveillance strategies and tactics. Many books on the subject of counter surveillance and how to ensure your movements and actions are stealth.

Surveillance is the art of watching over the activities of persons or groups from a position of higher authority. Surveillance may be covert (without their knowledge) or overt (perhaps with frequent reminders such as “we are watching over you”). Surveillance has been an intrinsic part of human history.

Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, written 2,500 years ago, discusses how spies should be used against a person’s enemies. But modern electronic and computer technology have given surveillance a whole new field of operation. Surveillance can be automated using computers, and people leave extensive records that describe their activities.

Counter surveillance is the practice of avoiding surveillance or making surveillance difficult. Before computer networks, counter surveillance involved avoiding agents and communicating secretly. With recent developments — the Internet, increasing prevalence of electronic security systems, and computer databases — counter surveillance has grown in scope and complexity. Now counter surveillance involves everything from knowing how to delete a file on a computer to avoiding becoming the target of direct advertising agencies.