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Analytical pieces that step back from the day-to-day filings to examine the larger pattern. These articles place the Equibit experience in historical and strategic context, drawing connections to documented methods of soft repression, institutional failure, and the systematic isolation of a targeted organization.

Grounded in the evidentiary record, they explore what the cumulative weight of the cases suggests about power, process, and the cost of pursuing accountability when the opposing forces prefer silence.

Crypto AG encryption machines and Operation Rubicon — CIA and BND ownership documented in 2020

Crypto AG: The Intelligence Coup of the Century

For half a century Crypto AG sold encryption to more than 120 countries while the CIA and, for years, the BND owned the company. The agencies’ own files called it the intelligence coup of the century.

Five Things the OIC Final Report Established That Contradict CSIS’s Position

Five findings in the Office of the Information Commissioner’s final report on Chris Horlacher’s CSIS access requests stand in direct tension with the Attorney General’s defence in the Equibit lawsuit.

CSIS and the Canadian Entrapment Factory: A Pattern of Orchestrated Threats

Post-9/11 Canadian cases in which judges found intelligence services did not only watch a threat. Security certificates, informant-driven plots, and withheld evidence. The same candour problem is pleaded in CV-20-00645492-0000.

Four Critical Failures in the Handling of the Default Judgment Against Sergei Sachkov

In 2022 Equibit Group obtained default judgment against Sergei Sachkov for $1,744,711. Justice Merritt set that judgment aside. Four failures in the endorsement — straw-man “admission,” misattributed allegation, chronological impossibility, and a total failure to inquire — are now the subject of Canadian Judicial Council file 26-0478.

Six Key Facts About the Impersonation Websites

Domain records, archival captures, search screenshots, and the Statement of Claim in CV-26-00017856-0000 establish six facts about the impersonation websites at equibit.io and equibit.net.

Seven Documented Technical Attacks Against Equibit and Chris Horlacher

The Equibit public record documents seven categories of technical interference against the company’s infrastructure and its founder — from TR-069 router compromise and DNS interception to the July 2026 website intrusion and impersonation sites at equibit.io and equibit.net.

The Fifth Estate Myth: When Independent Journalists Protect Power Instead of Challenging It

Equibit Group Ltd. has recorded a repeating pattern: journalists request the Equibit lawsuit file, ask detailed questions, then disappear. The piece sets that record against the Fifth Estate ideal.

The Assassination of Equibit: Phase Two

Phase Two (2019–2026) covers CV-21 against Saucier et al., financial isolation, and the 2025 technical attacks and takeover attempt timed to CSIS discovery. Phase One is the 2017–2019 collapse.

CSIS Secret Federal Court Warrants: Enabling Zersetzung Through Breaches of Candour

Section 21 warrants are obtained ex parte. In exchange, CSIS owes the Federal Court a duty of candour. 2016 FC 1105 and 2020 FC 616 record repeated breaches of that duty. That jurisprudence is part of the public context of Equibit’s CSIS action.

Zersetzung in the Digital Age: The Silent Assassination of Equibit and the Return of Stasi Tactics in the West

Directive 1/76 defined Zersetzung as decomposition without open arrest. Equibit Group Ltd. frames the campaign against the company and Chris Horlacher as a modern form of that method, now recorded in four Ontario Superior Court files.

The Assassination of Equibit

Court File No. CV-20-00645492-0000 is Equibit Group Ltd. v. the Attorney General of Canada and others. The claim pleads regulatory pressure, the loss of the working code, and the destruction of the company.