Wednesday, February 8, 2012

A sinister cyber-surveillance scheme exposed | Barrett Brown

6:05 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

hacked emails HBGary federal security contractor reveal a disturbing public-private partnership to spy on Internet users

When President Eisenhower left office in 1960, provided Americans with a warning.

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether intentional or not, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of 'misplaced power exists and will persist. "

Sixty years later, the military-industrial complex have joined another record center which has proved increasingly "out of power." The dozens of secret societies collectively known as intelligence recruitment industry

  • last February, three of these companies - HBGary Federal, Palantir and Berico, collectively known as Team Themis - was convicted of conspiring to recruit their warfare capabilities of information companies who wanted revenge on perceived enemies, including American activist groups, Wikileaks and journalist Glenn Greenwald. How about a new and dangerous dynamic is now in the game was revealed by a pirate raid related to collective bargaining anonymous, which leads to the spread of more than 70,000 e-mails from executives of the company and HBGary HBGary Federal and affiliates.
  • After spending several months studying the e-mails and other surveys of the industry represented in it, I revealed my summary of a program announcement of U.S. intelligence, known as the Roma / COIN and its future replacement, known as Odyssey. The program accommodates the large-scale monitoring of social networks through things such as natural language processing, semantic analysis, latent semantic indexing and piracy. At the same time, it also involves the dissemination to some extent unknown information for a given population through a variety of media - without any indication that the true source, it is intelligence in the United States. Debates dispersed in Arabic translation services may indicate that the program is the Middle East.
  • Although the details I have provided in the document - which is also now in the possession of several major news agencies and may be published in whole or in part, by both parties who cares to do - there is much that is unclear on Roma / COIN and the capacity which it is composed. The information that I have worked almost entirely of email correspondence between executives of several companies that together have tried to win the contract to supply the technical requirements of the program, and because many discussions were held in the meetings and telephone conversations, information remains largely to potential partners, the utility of a self-capacity, and other clues scattered in hundreds of emails between a large number of participants.
The importance of this program for the general public is not limited to its potential for abuse by the facets of the U.S. intelligence community, which has long been proverbial poor use another ability. Perhaps the most surprising aspect is that the association of subcontractors and other legal entities who have worked to get the contract was initiated largely by Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal was in the center of the team Themis conspiracy intelligence capabilities premium available to private institutions. As I mention in the linked report, this fact alone should encourage increased research on how the industry works and the threats it poses to democratic institutions.

In all, the existence and nature of the Roma / COIN should confirm what many had realized in recent years, including: the United States and other states n ' not intend to allow people to carry their belongings unattended. These states should not complain when subjected to a similar review -. As more and more this will happen in the future


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