To the low hanging fruit of the hacker community, the script kiddies, operational security (OpSec, for short) is a foreign concept. Common sociological factors contribute to the growth of this “sect”. Tracking and identifying these individuals by the trails they leave is considered, by some, to be an art form in and of itself. From the rudimentary protections put in place to protect their servers, to the cross contamination of online personas, we will provide the audience an “over the shoulder” view of the process of scoping, tracking, and identifying individual actors.