OPSEC: Operation Security

The less information that is known about how you operate, the harder it is for adversaries to exploit your weaknesses.

"OPSEC: using passive or active means, to deny the enemy knowledge of the dispositions, capabilities and intentions of friendly forces...OPSEC helps people identify the indicators that are giving away information about missions, activities, and operations. What do people observe about your schedule? What do you do when you go to work? What are you revealing by your predictable routines and the way you do business - these are indicators... OPSEC gives the commander the capability to identify those actions that can be observed by adversary intelligence systems. It can provide an awareness of the friendly indicators that adversary intelligence systems might obtain. Such an awareness could be interpreted or pieced together to derive critical information regarding friendly force dispositions, intent, and/or courses of action that must be protected. The goal of OPSEC is to identify, select, and execute measures that eliminate, or reduce to an acceptable level, indications and other sources of information that may be exploited by an adversary."

—http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security_%28OPSEC%29

What Organizer?

Media will often ask who the organizers of an action are.  When conducting activities where organizers could be targeted for harassment, it is sometimes desirable not to identify any of the organizers at all. If you have to give statements to the media, don't give your name or give a pseudonym. You might just send your opponents on a wild goose chase to discover a mythical person.

"You must be my FNGs. Oh, get your hands down. Do not salute me. There are gaddamn snipers all around this area who love to grease an officer."

—Forest Gump, mp3