#opmetalgear

This operation stems from a string of leaked HBGary emails wherein a company by the name of Booz Allen Hamilton, in direct contact with Aaron Barr, is believed to have bid on and successfully won the contract to develop an unnamed software from the US Air Force. This software will be known as "Metal Gear" for informational purposes.

We believe that Metal Gear involves an army of fake cyber personalities immersed in social networking websites for the purposes of manipulating the mass population via influence, crawling information from major online communities (such as Facebook), and identifying anonymous personalities via correlating stored information from multiple sources to establish connections between separate online accounts, using this information to arrest dissidents and activists who work anonymously.

The primary goal of this operation is to find out exactly <span>what</span> metal gear is and why they are developing it.

What is 'Metal Gear' ?

We codenamed the software that we believe Booz Allen Hamilton and some of their partners are working on.

The nature of the software is partially known, from the documents that we have seen and from what some employees have said it is a software that would allow a single agent to command an 'army' of sockpuppet accounts on social networking mediums.  It is sophisticated enough to develop a 'profile' for each puppet to add a level of 'realism' to each. In short, there would be no fesiable way to distinguish between 100 people commenting on a subject, and 100 of these puppets doing the same.

This is nothing new for those of us familiar with how the net works.  However, given recent events across the world, the idea behind Metal Gear seems to be 'weaponizing' sockpuppets, in order to influence the face of revolutions that are based within social networking sites. 

Audio recording of our announcement (16th of March 2011)

http://ge.tt/5tzZlkq (try various browsers if stream does not work)

IBM Patent

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090313274

http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/phil_hbgary_com/14294h.html

Airforce contract

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3A6tHUDPB03ywJ%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.fbo.gov%2Fspg%2FUSAF%2FAMC%2F6CS%2FRTB220610%2Flisting.html+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fbo.gov%2Fspg%2FUSAF%2FAMC%2F6CS%2FRTB220610%2Flisting.html&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&source=www.google.co.uk 

The Patent:

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20090313274

Inventors:

<span>Li Chen</span>

(Documentation Needed)

<span>Yongcheng Li</span>

(Documentation Needed)

<span>Govndaraj Sampathkumar</span>

IBM Corporation 3901 S. Miami Blvd

Durham, NC 27703-9315, USA

+1-919-224-1190 

[email protected]

<span>Ryan Urquhart</span>

(Documentation Needed)

Agent:

HOLMAN IP LAW / IBM RSW

https://sites.google.com/a/holmaniplaw.com/www/profile

(This is the profile for Holman IP Law.  It is no longer active.)

http://www.linkedin.com/in/holman

http://www.techpatents.com/jeff_holman.html

(These are profiles of Jeff Holman, formerly of Holman IP law, now with a firm called WH&H. Same person.)

http://bit.ly/fP0A44

(IBM RSW is believed to be an IBM office near the SW Regional Airport in Florida.)

4037 Del Prado Boulevard South, Cape Coral, FL

(239) 945-1013

Patent application number:     20090313274

http://www.ificlaims.com/ificls/IPC8_Concordance_helpmenu_final.asp

ALSO WORTH LOOKING INTO;

http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/ted_hbgary_com/6555.html

Meeting/training class between NSA, USAF, HBGary, Booz Allen & other various sec companies

Note: Why are the exact same companies that are intrested in Metal Gear have a seminar about a malware analyzing software?

http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/phil_hbgary_com/14294h.html

The purpose of the meeting/thing was to school them in Responder Pro

Phil Wallisch was the instructor..

Dox of guys in the meeting

Parties involved;

http://www.mandiant.com/

NSA

IBM

USAF

HBGary

Booz Allen Hamilton

Here's the list of folks who will be attending 'class':

Protip: call these people, ask them about Metal Gear, ask them about the air force, NSA, USAF, Aaron Barr. Get them worried, get them talking.

Keesok Han   USAF   [email protected]   

[email protected]

http://bit.ly/dPFV23 - some document aboutKeeseok.

DEPARTMENT OF FUCKING HOMELAND SECURITY 

http://www.ksea.org/KSEA/Newsletters/FullVersion/Archived/Vol_11_3_1982.pdf <- someone check this out, search for his name

<- whitepages say 3 or less with this name, it may also be Kesook, misspelt on purpose?

Jose Faura   NSA NTOC   [email protected]   

http://hb.cryptologic.tk/greg_hbgary_com/13095.html

http://orlando.blockshopper.com/property/302317168500110/4277_conway_place/

Zane Lackey   iSEC Partners   [email protected]   

http://hbgary.anonleaks.ch/phil_hbgary_com/15070.html <- check this out

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/zane-lackey/4/340/66a ?

Have written book about :

H.323 Attack And IAX Attacks

Txt msg attacks

Scott Brown   NSA - Blue Team   [email protected]   

> Scott K. Brown

> Technical Director

> NSA Blue Team

> (410) 854-6529

> [email protected]

George Peslis   DISA   [email protected]   

Jimmy Lloyd   DISA   [email protected]   

http://sellingtoarmy.com/uploads/Army_OSBP_Newsletter_Oct2010-Jan2011.pdf

Eric Potter   DISA   [email protected]   

Phil Geneste   BAH   [email protected]   

Patrick Upatham   Verdasys   [email protected]

Patrick Upatham

Security Solutions Manager

Verdasys, Inc.

Mobile: +1 339.222.4022

David Black   IBM   [email protected]   

http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcblack?goback=.npp_%2Fjerome*5byrne%2F13%2F3B5%2F43B

David Black

Engagement Manager

Emergency Response Service

IBM Security Services

Kansas City, Missouri USA

Office: (+001) 816-525-5494 

Tim Sherald   DISA   [email protected]   

> Tim Sherald

> Computer Scientist

> DISA FSO - IRRT (FS42)

> [email protected]

> [email protected]

> Comm:  717-267-9370

> DSN:  570-9370

> Cell:  717-414-3450

Christina Smyre    NSA   [email protected]   

http://www.facebook.com/clsmyre <- real, matches with email

[email protected]

http://n-design.com/EN/other_pubs/Entries/2002/5/9_SANS_Beyond_Firewalls_files/SANSDenver.Sample.pdf <- someone dig in this

John Laliberte   NSA    

http://www.facebook.com/people/John-Laliberte/13949810  ?

AAPC G-PPE Task Force Members <----

http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/gppetf_roster.pdf