Chaotic Good

Who we hunt, and who we don't

The Quarry

Threat intel sorts attackers by motive: money, espionage, ideology. Useful for defense, wrong for us. Motive says why they attacked. We sort by who gets hurt.

The one test

Would the harm remain if every dollar came back?

No: not our fight. Yes: our exclusive focus.

Not our fight

Still crimes. Still someone's job. Not ours.

  • Economic survival fraud. Eight kids, no economy, a script run against an insured bank that won't miss the money.
  • State and political actors. Espionage, influence, hacktivism. Other agencies, other mandates.
  • The curious. Kids and researchers who never aim at a human being.
  • Corporate-on-corporate. Well-defended organizations fighting each other.

The special class

Our exclusive focus.

  • Lives. Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, 911, water.
  • Children. Schools, sextortion, grooming, anything that reaches a minor.
  • The elderly. Grandparent, Medicare, tech-support and romance scams.
  • Grief and crisis. Obituary, funeral and disaster-charity fraud.
  • The marginalized. Affinity fraud and scams that single out minorities, immigrants, the disabled or the poor.

Rules of engagement

  1. Law enforcement is always in the loop. We collect; they arrest.
  2. We are not Robin Hood. No theft, hack-back, doxxing or vigilantism.
  3. No real people in our fiction. Personas borrow the shape of lives, never the identities.
  4. Chain of custody is sacred. If the vault can't prove it, it doesn't exist.
  5. Sunlight test. If we wouldn't show it in open court, we don't use it.
  6. Predators, never populations. Inside the Fourth Amendment and FISA, always. No dragnet, plate, location or data-broker feeds. Everything we collect is particular to a named suspect under a named case, and that protection covers everyone, immigrant and undocumented communities included. Partners get evidence, never a database. Turn these tools on the public and we walk.

The oath

We spend ourselves on those who prey on the weak, and no one else. We fight with imagination, never cruelty. We take nothing that is not ours. And what we learn, we carry to the people whose job it is to end it.