Liberate

HAVE CLEAN TAPES AND MEMORY STICKS:
- when you go on to a farm or to a demo make sure you only have unused tapes with you. You do not want to be caught on a farm with something incriminating from the night before nor do you want to risk losing good footage that you have previously obtained.
- remove images from you memory sticks and FORMAT the memory stick on the camera.
- do not have any used tapes or memory sticks with images on you and where possible do not even have them in the car in case you get pulled over and searched.

DO NOT TAKE YOUR PHONE WITH YOU:
- Fortunately for the Police most people willingly carry their own personal tracking device. Your cellphone is always reporting back to the phone company where it is
located and thus where you are. This information is taken from what your nearest cellphone repeater is. For this reason it is best to never take your phone on a job or even when checking places out as this can link you to the area.

REMOVE EXIF DATA FROM YOUR IMAGES:
- ALL digital picture files contain information about the time pictures were taken, the date, camera model and sometimes even the light conditions at the time. If you use your camera for something dodge and put the photos out and use the same camera to take legal demo photos, the Police can link these together from the EXIF data and could probably be enough to get a search warrant to find your camera. It is best to ALWAYS remove this information for ALL images you EVER take with your camera. I use a program called Exif Tag Remover which can be downloaded from
http://www.rlvision.com/exif/about.asp but there are many similar programs avaliable.

ONLY KEEP USEABLE IMAGES AND TAPES:
- Unless you are in Open Rescue you probably do not want people knowing who was involved in your most recent liberation, this is why you will go to the effort of covering your face. There can be the odd occassion where your mask falls down or someone talks while the camera is on record. If you have video footage or images of this you cannot use them so why keep them?

DON’T LABEL IMAGES WITH PEOPLES’ NAMES:
- You’ld be surprised how many times you go on to Indymedia, for example, and see images of the days demo with people’s name as the picture file name. When you hover over images with your mouse or when you save the image to your computer whatever you called the image comes up. We don’t need to be telling the Police and the fascists who we are.