TrapWire: Anonymous gives handy tips on how to avoid surveillance

Now that WikiLeaks has brought TrapWire to the attention of the world, people are concerned about surveillance and being tracked wherever they go. Here are some solutions. Maybe.

Now Anonymous has come up with a few tips to avoid surveillance cameras and defeat the facial recognition software.

Maybe a tad "tongue in cheek", they state in the description of their video, "While the Government seems hellbent on watching our every move, we are not helpless. Stand up and fight back!" ... read more and watch video.

Video: TrapWire working with surveillance cameras and online

WikiLeaks revealed that the U.S. government is using surveillance cameras all over the U.S. to track people. An anti-censorship campaigner explains that not only do they use cameras, they are also tracking people on the Internet.

Digital Journal reported yesterday on the WikiLeaks release of more Stratfor files, relating to the TrapWire project.

Since this release, the WikiLeaks website and its mirror sites have been constantly hammered by a sustained DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack, making it almost impossible for people to access and download the files... read more and watch video.

TrapWire: U.S. cities under total surveillance? (video)

In the latest release of Stratfor files by WikiLeaks, details about the secret surveillance program known as TrapWire have been revealed. Now WikiLeaks is suffering a sustained DDoS attack.

Shortly after the release was made by WikiLeaks, as reported on Digital Journal, their website and its mirror sites went under a sustained DDoS attack, allegedly by a group called AntiLeaks.

Despite the WikiLeaks website being down, and people unable to access the newly leaked information, Anonymous, the loose-knit group of hacktivists has taken up the story and has launched an operation to expose the truth about the TrapWire program and the companies that it is connected to... read more.

Cyber attack in progress against WikiLeaks

For just over a week, WikiLeaks websites have been hammered by DDoS attacks. The websites are often not available, or are extremely slow to access.

A group calling themselves AntiLeaks has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The group refers to Julian Assange as "a new breed of terrorist" and states that they launched the attack in response to Assange's attempt to seek political asylum in Ecuador... read more.