Elon Musk's private home address could be about to be leaked as secret activists announce $1.2 million plan
A group of anti-oligarchy activists has threatened to leak Elon Musk's home address, as well as that of his brother Kimbal and members of the Tesla board.
While we know the world's richest man owns and operates numerous properties around the Austin area of Texas, he's also spent some time at a prefabricated Boxabl tiny home near the SpaceX Starbase launch facility.
The New York Times was once forced to change an article that appeared to accidentally give away the exact location of where Elon Musk calls home, but now, an activist group known as the Capytistas has unveiled a $1.2 million plan to leak it on purpose.
Who are the Capytistas?
As reported by Wired, two of the Capytistas' members were interviewed under the condition of anonymity. The name is a spin on Zapatista insurgents from southern Mexico, although the Capytistas are thought to be more widespread.
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They claim to have spent the past 12 months collecting dossiers on Musk and other billionaires, as well as those who are considered their top lieutenants.
This includes using methods associated with private investigators and even more shadowy tactics that aren't. The Capytistas are said to be international and made up of "grassroots activists, researchers, journalists, and artists."
Many work in 'silos' and don't even know who other members are, but through combined efforts, they've supposedly raised over $1.2 million via "a heartening number of wealthy class traitors."
This is with a view that those like Mr. Musk, who choose to have extreme wealth and political power, are an 'existential threat' to the rest of humanity.
The group has adapted its creed from a quote by late folk singer Utah Phillips, adding: "Democracy is not dying, it’s being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses."
Complaining that the rich continue to collect our data without our consent, while keeping their own private lives private, the Capytistas claim some fortunes are built around 'doxmaxxing'.
Believing they can take the security of privacy away from the rich, the group reiterated: "The Capytistas intend to level the playing field. by giving oligarchs a taste of the invasions of privacy they commit, and monetize, every day.”
How do the Capytistas plan to leak Elon Musk's home address?
A November 2 press release seen by Wired explains how the activists plan to release more than 150 home addresses, as well as 3,500 records on people whose total wealth exceeds $1.4 trillion. The group told Wired it isn't bothered by being tarred with the doxxing brush, expanding on how its work involves digging up property records, court filings, LLCs, and trusts that the rich use to buy up property.
They admit to occasionally using "physical surveillance, human infiltration, and advertising intelligence," using location and profile data that's bought and sold through online advertising markets.
Wired has reportedly viewed a copy of the Musk dossier, which includes 32 home addresses tied to the tech mogul and his executives.
Even though Musk is the 'primary target', Kimbal Musk and Tesla board chair Robyn Denholm are also included as 'secondary targets', while investors like Vanguard, BlackRock, and nearly 40 suppliers are branded 'tertiary targets' and their corporate addresses are listed.
Interestingly, Elon Musk is considered one of the least important targets on a wider list, but was picked as the first because he draws so much anger from the general public.
While there are sure to be concerns over doxxing, one member of the Capytistas said their aim is to avoid the kind of bloodshed involved in the December 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson, concluding: "While Elon Musk and the other individuals we target will undoubtedly try to frame our work as extreme and stochastic, what we’re doing is using radical accountability to build an off-ramp that might prevent the inevitable violent and tragic outcomes the oligarch class has been steering us toward.”
“In the end, we may be doing them a favor.”
