We’ve existed for a decade as a platform to educate, to support prisoners and to share anonymous reports of direct action. Over the years we have found a balance between anonymity and usability for those reporting and evolved the methods to submit reports. On this short article we just want to outline the method we recommend to submit reports anonymously.
Please note that we do not share fascist reports, reports containing transphobia or racism or any other form of hatred, reports submitted over social media DMs or reports of open rescues.
TO SUBMIT A REPORT:
1- We would advice people to use TOR browser for this, but we have no way of enforcing it. TOR will be A LOT more anonymous than replicating the process on other browsers.
Get it here: https://www.torproject.org/download/
1.1- if you need to really take care of your anonymity you should use TAILS OS, which can be flashed into a drive and used in any computer. This is not compulsory and you should decide if the report grants seeking that level of security. It might not be the same to report about mice traps than to report about an arson!
Learn about TailsOS here: https://tails.net/
2- Head to our website, under the tab “Contact Us”
Link here: https://unoffensiveanimal.is/contact-us/
3- Under the Contact Form box, write your report. Please include a date and a location. If you prefer to report in any other language than English please understand that some languages might be machine translated and might not completely reflect your exact words.
DO NOT include personal details, or a way to contact you back. We don’t want to know who you are. We don’t want to discuss anything. This is simply to keep the platform safe.
4- Have you got photos or videos of the action? Lets look into that:
4.1- Metadata might be betraying you. Use any metadata removing software to delete it. This is easier than it sounds. You can use ExifEraser, or simply upload and download it to signal to delete metadata (but be mindful if you’re using signal, should you be uploading incriminating photos to your personal chat app?)
4.2- Upload the media to any shitty service that keeps that media for a minimum of 7 days. Shorter periods will likely expire before we download it. We cant be held responsible for the loss of your media. Some suggestions of file uploader services might be WeTransfer, Ufile and SwissTransfer. PLEASE CHECK that you are sending a link with at least 7 days expiration date!
You DO NOT need to put a password on the files. This overcomplicates the transfer of media that will be publicly published anyway. We might be unable to decrypt your media and it doesn’t add any benefit to the security, as that media will be made public anyway!
5- Alongside your written report, paste the media download link.
6- complete a silly maths problem (this is supposed to keep robots at bay, but it really doesn’t tbf, who would’ve thought!)
7- Tap on “Encrypt and Send”. Your report will be encrypted by itself and sent to our inbox. You can re-send your report if you’ve not seen it appear online within 14 days.
Please don’t contact us about “getting you in touch with the ALF”. We don’t know who the anonymous reporters are.
Please do not give us personal information when reporting something. We don’t want to know who the anonymous reporters are.
KEEP FIGHTING!
