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TrapWire is Big Brother on Steroids

The events following the release by Wikileaks of more e-mails obtained during last year’s Stratfor hack have played out like something out of an Orwell novel. TrapWire is Big Brother on steroids. By now we have all heard of Facial Recognition applications and their suspected use by Facebook. TrapWire goes a step further reportedly being able to detect patterns consistent with an attack, and “walk back the cat” or trace suspects back following an attack utilizing it’s vast network of cameras. Internal emails from Stratfor state: “TrapWire is one of the most innovative tools developed since 9-11 to help mitigate terrorist threats. From a protective intelligence perspective, TrapWire does have the ability to share information on suspicious events or suspects between cities. Operationally, the ability to identify hostile surveillance at one target set — in multiple cities — can be used to neutralize terror threats by interrupting the attack cycle. Meaning, a suspect conducting surveillance of the NYC subway can also be spotted by TrapWire conducting similar activity at the DC subway, connecting the infamous dots. An additional benefit of TrapWire is that the system can also be used to help “walk back the cat” after an attack to identify terrorist suspects and modus operandi. I can also see the tool being very effective in identifying general street crime.”

A program called “iWatch” (Steve Jobs could not be reached for comment), was also mentioned. This program “pulls community member reporting into the TrapWire search engine and compares SARs across the country…with potential matches being fedback to the local LE agency.” Fred Burton (Stratfor Vice President) went on to add “An amazing amount of good quality reporting is coming in from alert citizens (and police officers) in the DC area in particular.” This appears to allow every low-level snitch and Neighborhood Nosey Nancy to feed the system information on “suspects”. While the true abilities of this application remain the stuff of speculation, what can be certain is these e-mails reveal the system being in place in many major cities for several years now. An e-mail from Burton suggests the London Stock Exchange, where we saw the British equivalent of OWS play out is “protected by heavy surveillance coverages (TrapWire) and predictive software”. Burton wrote of NYC in September of 2010: “This week, 500 surveillance cameras were activated on the NYC subway system to focus on pre-operational terrorist surveillance.” E-mails suggest that DC, Austin, and L.A. also have the systems in place.

Following the leak, Wikileaks was bombarded with a severe DDOS attack and as I am writting this piece the site is still unavailable. Reports came in on Wednesday that the attack on Wikileaks and it’s mirrors were “dropping upwards of 40 gigabits of traffic per second”. We have been lead to believe that this attack was facilitated by a hacker group calling themselves “AntiLeaks”. However the force of the attack suggests that whoever launched it had a massive botnet at their dissposal, and is not the work of amateurs by any means. If we simply ask ourselves “who benefits” we would come to the conclusion that those not wanting the existence of this system to become public knowledge would do so.

And from an article by David Seaman in Business Insider.

In related news, the Obama administration is fighting in federal court this week for the ability to imprison American citizens under NDAA’s indefinite detention provisions—and anyone else—without charge or trial, on suspicion alone.

So we have a widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I don’t see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes.

We will continue to follow this story closely and release information as we find it.

From the article:

“There is no way the United States can be this incompetent. The chaos here has to be at least partly deliberate.”

So explained an Iraqi military psychiatrist as we sat in his office in Baghdad’s al-Yarmouk hospital, trying to understand how his US counterparts could commit so many basic errors in military judgment during the occupation of Iraq, the most important of which was the stationing of battle-weary troops in the heart of Fallujah (the doctor predicted that doing so would likely precipitate a massacre, which in fact had occurred shortly before we met; his American counterparts remained unconcerned, or at least unmoved, at his warnings).

The United States was spending untold billions of dollars every month to rule Iraq, and yet at most every turn it seemed that it was making the wrong decision. Many people I knew who studied the US presence or spent time working in Iraq, did feel that the US was simply “that incompetent”.

#Anonymous #Antisec #stratfor #wikileaks

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TITLE: STRATFOR ANALYZES ANONYMOUS AND WIKILEAKS

> they called us hippie arseholes  :(

> and that we ll be 'hard to kill'

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From: [email protected]

To: [email protected]

List Name: mailto:[email protected]

Subject: RE: Wiki Hackers Talk to The Economist

Date: 2010-12-10 20:25:20

Content:

   I also think there are more folks who are willing to be hacktivists than

   those who are willing to get tear gassed or charge a police line. It is

   more anonymous and less dangerous/uncomfortable.

   From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]

   On Behalf Of Peter Zeihan

   Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 2:21 PM

   To: [email protected]

   Subject: Re: Wiki Hackers Talk to The Economist

   ull never get rid of it completely -- as long as there are young people

   with no assets and a perception that they've nothing to lose this will

   exist

   but in times when home ownership is growing and there is a perception of a

   threat, the numbers of folks who will do this is very low -- while at the

   same time the state's ability to deal with them is relatively high and

   support in broader society is questionable at best for such anarchists

   On 12/10/2010 12:51 PM, Chris Farnham wrote:

   And what happens if your core are people in Chicago, Oslo, Aukland, Perth,

   Munich, Gothenburg, etc. who are not afraid and are only two years out of

   college working for a marketing company and their biggest financial

   liability is your AT&T monthly invoice?

   As I said, these guys are not yet a major destabilising force, but you

   look at the human flesh search engines in China, they unsettle the Party

   on a monthly basis with their ability track, identify, locate and out

   whatever target takes their interest and that has included Party members

   in the past. 

   Wikileaks is a big deal in the world of the anti-establishment and the

   network based activists, it has displayed potential to strike at the

   established powers via information proliferation hand in hand with the

   conventional media. That's power and Anon has now latched on to the

   bandwagon. These guys have already crossed from net based activism to

   physical world activism, it has already happened at a very small level. 

   As I said, the core may not be the danger but the fanatical fringe amongst

   them are knowledgeable, motivated, organised and spread across the world

   with a non-state, nihilistic agenda. Sounds somewhat familiar, no?   

   I'm not saying that this shit is going down. I'm saying that there is

   significant potential there and to ignore it could be quite a mistake

   because if it doesn't make anything of itself, as Mike Mooney has said, it

   has created a wonderful template for others who may be more determined.

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   From: "Peter Zeihan" 

   To: [email protected]

   Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 2:35:25 AM

   Subject: Re: Wiki Hackers Talk to The Economist

   yeah - its always there, but there are two trends in western soceities

   that have traditionally kept it weak for the past few decades: rising home

   ownership and the presence of an enemy

   if ur afraid you want a strong state, and if you have a mortgage you don't

   riot

   On 12/10/2010 12:31 PM, Marko Papic wrote:

   Agreed completely. They have definitely toned done and terrorism has lost

   its cool "edge" after 9-11.

   But things go in waves... I mean there is nothing new about anarchism. I

   would argue it is hormonal. You can't ever really weed it out, it is not

   purely ideological. You are always going to find young men who think they

   are destined for greatness.

   On 12/10/10 12:23 PM, scott stewart wrote:

   Yes, but....

   The anarchist movement had generated a lot of momentum in the physical

   world around the time of the millennium with the battle in Seattle, London

   May Day and the WEF violence in Davos.  They lost a lot of steam after

   9/11.  

   We still have yet to see them regain the mass, momentum and numbers they

   had a decade ago. WTO and G-7 meetings are far more peaceful.

   From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]

   On Behalf Of Marko Papic

   Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 1:13 PM

   To: [email protected]

   Subject: Re: Wiki Hackers Talk to The Economist

   I agree with Chris.

   We have to be aware that "anarchism" has deep deep roots in history and

   has been violent in many ways many times.

   I am afraid, for example, that all the anti-globalization people in Europe

   are looking to hitch a new wagon. I am worried that the protests in the UK

   and all this net anarchism activity could somehow bizzarly get connected.

   I have no real evidence, but I do think that is potential for net

   anarchism to get its real world anarchist equivalent.

   I think we need to consider what Chris is saying very seriously. The cross

   over into physical/real life is a serious potential.

   On 12/10/10 11:51 AM, Chris Farnham wrote:

   I watch anon and /b/ and have done for  a while now (no I do not chan).

   There are some interesting crossovers with AQ and the

   decentralization/motivation of ideology. I don't think they have yet

   reached a point where they have become a cogent threat to security.

   However this wikileaks thing has the potential to be a catalyst for them.

   A web based subversive entity has just rocked the world for two weeks,

   that's dynamite for these guys.

   The chaners/anon/b are educated and at the leading edge of network based

   technology, have a nebulous structure of loyal people spread through the

   world with no nationalistic foundations bit drawn together under a shared

   interest in chaos (hentai and cats, for fuck sake). There are numerous

   examples where they have uncovered identities and all personal details of

   people based on a single photo (of a woman putting a cat in a garbage bin,

   for example) and bought some serious vigilanty style justice to those they

   disagree with. They have also crossed over into the physical/real life

   world a number of times.

   These guys are on the same level as the Chinese human flesh seach engines

   and quite possibly the cyber warfare units of many developed countries

   today.

   Most importantly, for the US at least, I have noted a number of militant

   libertarians within their periphery.

   It's going to be very interesting to watch what anon does in the

   'post-wilileaks' environment. If they move from a bunch of tech geeks in

   mum's basement into a real movement they could cause serious trouble and

   be hard to kill. The coresy not be the problem but the few unhinged among

   them could prove to be quite destructive if so inclined.

   Sent from my iPhone

   On Dec 11, 2010, at 1:25, Fred Burton  wrote:

   These global hippies and arseholes are like CHAOS or THRUSH.

   Fred Burton wrote:

   http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/more_wikileaks

   I am talking to members of a group called "Anonymous", using a web-based

   collaborative text-editing service. It is the first such interview for

   all of us, and their answers begin to collide on the page. One member

   comes from Norway; another shows surprise, then offers that she is from

   New Zealand. Another writes that group members come from Nepal and

   Eastern Russia. They all speak through pseudonyms, but I don't even know

   which psuedonym comes from what country because shortly after I read

   these answers, someone who calls himself "Tux" erases them all and writes

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   Marko Papic

   Geopol Analyst - Eurasia

   STRATFOR

   700 Lavaca Street - 900

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   Marko Papic

   Geopol Analyst - Eurasia

   STRATFOR

   700 Lavaca Street - 900

   Austin, Texas

   78701 USA

   P: + 1-512-744-4094

   [email protected]

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   Chris Farnham

   Senior Watch Officer, STRATFOR

   China Mobile: (86) 1581 1579142

   Email: [email protected]

   www.stratfor.com

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