I found this google drive folder that shows how basic activities are being cast as suspicious to others. This was recently posted to a cryptography list by possibly a set of undercover operatives. No offence is meant to the people looking like operatives, I am just very confused. The drive contains a spreadsheet titled "Suspicious Hacktivist Software Project OSINT" . This document enumerates the projects developed by a specific set of cryptography workers, casting them all as suspicious. Each open source cryptography software project by the social group is enumerated under a heading of "Suspicious Software Project." No reason for suspicion is provided: it is simply assumed. Similarly each developer is enumerated in a list titled "Suspicious Authors" . Again, no reason for suspicion is provided. Then, three websites are enumerated with names similar to the projects and people, under a heading of "Suspicious Domains". Some small notes are available to the side indicating that, although they are listed, the domains do not strongly relate to the people and projects. A special section is set aside for the individual who was the public face of the social group. Each time they attempted to talk about the group's work, a line is provided under the heading "Infiltration actions", and a separate column labeled "Proof" directly links to their attempt to talk about the group's work. Some of the listed items have additional content added to make them appear more suspicious. For example, a project which integrates tor with web browsing and bears the name "torbrowser" has description stating "Clone of Tor Website, Tor Project asked for removal." The link provided is to a SourceForge project page, which of course cannot be a website clone because it can only have the SourceForge set project layout. The concept of "clone of tor website" when the project has the name "torbrowser", a name also used on the tor website, is misleading to the cursory viewer, evading detection of the attack on the community while heightening suspicion. We're this not authorised law enforcement work, the statement and document would likely be slander! The instigating and first event in the document happened in 2013, so there is a good chance this document has been circulating for 8 years now, with people sadly acting on the portrayals it contains. This hilarious and tragic document is poignant, confusing, misleading, dangerous, terrifying, and wonderful. I don't know what to do with it.