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Sengkang, Singapore
Explore #58, March 10, 2011
Inspired by The Rolling Stones' "Tongue and Lip" logo.
Is AT&T U-verse Serving The People Or Fleecing The Sheeple?
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How Apple Inc. exploits slave labor and misplaced customer loyalty to
maintain a market cap comparable to ExxonMobil and a bank balance on par
with Uncle Sam.
SEVEN WAYS APPLE IS FLEECING THE AMERICAN SHEEPLE
If you're often part of the iFlock we see milling in front of the Apple
Store with their eyes and wallets wide open every time Cupertino increments
the version or release number of an iProduct, consider this a wake-up call.
If as the owner of a struggling small business in desperation you're about
to spend four times as much for a "cool" native iPhone app as you would for
a cross-platform Mobile Web app that might do twice as much for three times
the market, consider this a warning. And if you're an Occupy Wall Street
protester or supporter reading this on an Apple iPhone, iPad or iMac, we
sincerely hope that device was lost or liberated then unlocked and donated
for your use. Now let us proceed with our observations of the obvious - in
this episode, seven ways Apple Inc. is fleecing the American Sheeple:
1. Sending jobs overseas.
"Foxconn has 300,000 to 450,000 workers which are employed in Shenzhen China
at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a cramped, walled campus sometimes
referred to as 'Foxconn City' or 'iPod City'... [They] make everything
Apple sells... One has to ask the question: How much less money would
Apple make if those 400,000+ manufacturing jobs were based in the USA?...
What kind of impact would almost a half a million manufacturing jobs have in
the U.S. economy?"
tinyurl.com/6whxws5
2. Slashing domestic wages.
"Outsourcing [by Apple and other greedy global corporations] has become one
of the biggest reasons for our economic decline... The desire of
corporations to seek the cheapest labor possible has led to less work for
Americans, and a larger disparity between the rich and the poor. Over the
last twenty years this gap has grown tremendously, and is fueled further by
the fact that Americans now take lower wages in an attempt to remain
employed."
tinyurl.com/czcnnyd
3. Selling iProducts with built-in obsolescence.
"The genius factory that Steve Jobs built is just another oligopoly pushing
planned obsolescence [e.g. practically non-replaceable batteries] on a
buying public that should know better... There's only so much market growth
a premium electronic product can wring out of the industrialized West, and
Apple's marketers know it. They don't waste time growing the nonexistent
iPad market among African bushmen who live beyond the reach of a WiFi
signal. Instead, they know the real money is made from selling tiny
improvements to existing customers [a.k.a. Apple Zombies] who just have to
show off the latest gizmo to friends."
tinyurl.com/buvvuna
4. Avoiding corporate income taxes.
"Apple's headquarters are in Cupertino, Calif. By putting an office in
Reno, just 200 miles away, to collect and invest the company's profits,
Apple sidesteps state income taxes on some of those gains... California's
corporate tax rate is 8.84 percent. Nevada's? Zero... Setting up an
office in Reno is just one of many legal methods Apple uses to reduce its
worldwide tax bill by billions of dollars each year... Apple's accountants
have found legal ways to allocate about 70 percent of its profits overseas,
where tax rates are often much lower... Apple has created subsidiaries in
low-tax places like Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the British
Virgin Islands - some little more than a letterbox or an anonymous office -
that help cut the taxes it pays around the world."
tinyurl.com/d8gab84
5. Locking in vendors and customers.
"Many consider Apple to be the most vertically integrated company in the
world: All Apple hardware and software are designed in-house, and Apple
also runs its own digital content store, iTunes, along with the App Store
and iBooks store... Apple has consistently [conspired] to limit consumer
choice, creating a situation known as "lock in". As soon as you start
buying stuff from Apple, you'll find it difficult to move to products made
by someone else without losing everything you've already paid for... [For
example, if] you switch to an Android device from an iPhone with iMessage
activated, anyone who's previously been sending you iMessages will no longer
be able to send you texts."
tinyurl.com/bp6ow6u
6. Obstructing Open Web development.
"The dominance of Apple and Google mobile browsers is leading to a situation
that's even worse for Web programming than the former dominance of Internet
Explorer, a standards group leader warned... Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) group overseeing the formatting and
effects standard called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), said that programmers
are overlooking other browsers when they use newer CSS features - even when
those other browsers support the features. The result is that those other
browsers - Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera, chiefly - might have to
essentially masquerade themselves as other browsers. When that happens, the
'Open Web' - a programming foundation based on cooperatively created
standards rather than proprietary features - is being thrown under the bus."
tinyurl.com/6s298w7
7. Exploiting and accelerating technological dehumanization.
"Apple is an American success story... At one point this year, Apple had
more money in the bank than the United States itself. It is a literal titan
of industry... [Apple co-founder Steve Jobs] had no problem conceiving of
himself as a counter-culture hero even as he became a cultural titan and
business icon. Jobs' success at presenting the company as counter-cultural,
as much as any design intuition, is one of the most enduring and powerful of
Apple's assets. Apple's success in retail is owed, ostensibly, to the fact
that its products create emotional attachments to users. People (sometimes
literally) love their iPhones and iPads. This relationship to technology
seems dangerous. It's dangerous because Apple is not in the love business;
it's in the business business. Apple's goal is to make money - and lots of
it... Apple is not run by a group of longhaired hippies, and it's primary
directive is not to save the world."
tinyurl.com/6rgoqu5
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Seven Ways Apple Is Fleecing The American Sheeple
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How Apple Inc. exploits slave labor and misplaced customer loyalty to
maintain a market cap comparable to ExxonMobil and a bank balance on par
with Uncle Sam.
SEVEN WAYS APPLE IS FLEECING THE AMERICAN SHEEPLE
If you're often part of the iFlock we see milling in front of the Apple
Store with their eyes and wallets wide open every time Cupertino increments
the version or release number of an iProduct, consider this a wake-up call.
If as the owner of a struggling small business in desperation you're about
to spend four times as much for a "cool" native iPhone app as you would for
a cross-platform Mobile Web app that might do twice as much for three times
the market, consider this a warning. And if you're an Occupy Wall Street
protester or supporter reading this on an Apple iPhone, iPad or iMac, we
sincerely hope that device was lost or liberated then unlocked and donated
for your use. Now let us proceed with our observations of the obvious - in
this episode, seven ways Apple Inc. is fleecing the American Sheeple:
1. Sending jobs overseas.
"Foxconn has 300,000 to 450,000 workers which are employed in Shenzhen China
at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a cramped, walled campus sometimes
referred to as 'Foxconn City' or 'iPod City'... [They] make everything
Apple sells... One has to ask the question: How much less money would
Apple make if those 400,000+ manufacturing jobs were based in the USA?...
What kind of impact would almost a half a million manufacturing jobs have in
the U.S. economy?"
tinyurl.com/6whxws5
2. Slashing domestic wages.
"Outsourcing [by Apple and other greedy global corporations] has become one
of the biggest reasons for our economic decline... The desire of
corporations to seek the cheapest labor possible has led to less work for
Americans, and a larger disparity between the rich and the poor. Over the
last twenty years this gap has grown tremendously, and is fueled further by
the fact that Americans now take lower wages in an attempt to remain
employed."
tinyurl.com/czcnnyd
3. Selling iProducts with built-in obsolescence.
"The genius factory that Steve Jobs built is just another oligopoly pushing
planned obsolescence [e.g. practically non-replaceable batteries] on a
buying public that should know better... There's only so much market growth
a premium electronic product can wring out of the industrialized West, and
Apple's marketers know it. They don't waste time growing the nonexistent
iPad market among African bushmen who live beyond the reach of a WiFi
signal. Instead, they know the real money is made from selling tiny
improvements to existing customers [a.k.a. Apple Zombies] who just have to
show off the latest gizmo to friends."
tinyurl.com/buvvuna
4. Avoiding corporate income taxes.
"Apple's headquarters are in Cupertino, Calif. By putting an office in
Reno, just 200 miles away, to collect and invest the company's profits,
Apple sidesteps state income taxes on some of those gains... California's
corporate tax rate is 8.84 percent. Nevada's? Zero... Setting up an
office in Reno is just one of many legal methods Apple uses to reduce its
worldwide tax bill by billions of dollars each year... Apple's accountants
have found legal ways to allocate about 70 percent of its profits overseas,
where tax rates are often much lower... Apple has created subsidiaries in
low-tax places like Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the British
Virgin Islands - some little more than a letterbox or an anonymous office -
that help cut the taxes it pays around the world."
tinyurl.com/d8gab84
5. Locking in vendors and customers.
"Many consider Apple to be the most vertically integrated company in the
world: All Apple hardware and software are designed in-house, and Apple
also runs its own digital content store, iTunes, along with the App Store
and iBooks store... Apple has consistently [conspired] to limit consumer
choice, creating a situation known as "lock in". As soon as you start
buying stuff from Apple, you'll find it difficult to move to products made
by someone else without losing everything you've already paid for... [For
example, if] you switch to an Android device from an iPhone with iMessage
activated, anyone who's previously been sending you iMessages will no longer
be able to send you texts."
tinyurl.com/bp6ow6u
6. Obstructing Open Web development.
"The dominance of Apple and Google mobile browsers is leading to a situation
that's even worse for Web programming than the former dominance of Internet
Explorer, a standards group leader warned... Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) group overseeing the formatting and
effects standard called Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), said that programmers
are overlooking other browsers when they use newer CSS features - even when
those other browsers support the features. The result is that those other
browsers - Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera, chiefly - might have to
essentially masquerade themselves as other browsers. When that happens, the
'Open Web' - a programming foundation based on cooperatively created
standards rather than proprietary features - is being thrown under the bus."
tinyurl.com/6s298w7
7. Exploiting and accelerating technological dehumanization.
"Apple is an American success story... At one point this year, Apple had
more money in the bank than the United States itself. It is a literal titan
of industry... [Apple co-founder Steve Jobs] had no problem conceiving of
himself as a counter-culture hero even as he became a cultural titan and
business icon. Jobs' success at presenting the company as counter-cultural,
as much as any design intuition, is one of the most enduring and powerful of
Apple's assets. Apple's success in retail is owed, ostensibly, to the fact
that its products create emotional attachments to users. People (sometimes
literally) love their iPhones and iPads. This relationship to technology
seems dangerous. It's dangerous because Apple is not in the love business;
it's in the business business. Apple's goal is to make money - and lots of
it... Apple is not run by a group of longhaired hippies, and it's primary
directive is not to save the world."
tinyurl.com/6rgoqu5
###
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Key: apple, apple inc., iphone, ipad, ipod, imac, iproducts, iflock, mac,
planned obsolescence, corporate greed, sheeple, fascism, fascists, occupy
wall street, ows, vvv pr
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TrapWire: If You SEE Something SMASH Something!
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Ignored by corporate media, Wikileaks has exposed a CIA-linked Orwellian
thoughtcrime surveillance network that goes far beyond "suspicious activity
reporting".
)(
TRAPWIRE: SPYING ON YOU. PREDICTING YOUR MOVES.
"Hacked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor shed light on a
global suspicious activity surveillance system called TrapWire that is
reportedly in use in locations around the world from the London Stock
Exchange to the White House. The emails [released by WikiLeaks] provide
information on the extent and operations of a system designed to correlate
suspicious activity reports and other evidence that may indicate [a
potential crime or terrorist attack]."
publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/
A TrapWire white paper describes their offering as "a unique, predictive
software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance. As
such, TrapWire represents the basis for a paradigm shift in the
methodologies traditionally applied to securing critical infrastructure and
personnel; a paradigm shift from the currently accepted and widely adopted
philosophy of damage mitigation through increased physical security to a new
and proactive approach of attack prevention through the identification and
disruption of pre-attack planning and surveillance activities."
www.cicc.org/pdf/TRAPWIRE_Whitepaper_generic.pdf
In other words, TrapWire is for all intents and purposes an Orwellian
thoughtcrime detection system. As their website explains, "TrapWire
detects, analyzes and alerts on suspicious events as they are collected over
periods of time and across multiple locations. Through the systematic
capture of these pre-attack indicators, terrorist or criminal surveillance
and pre-attack planning operations can be identified... There are currently
three different TrapWire systems available for public and private sector
clients:
* TW-CI (TrapWire Critical Infrastructure) focuses on the identification of
pre-operational surveillance activities occurring around specific sites
within the TrapWire Network
* TW-CM (TrapWire Community Member) supports the online reporting of
suspicious behavior by community members, such as the iWatch programs in Los
Angeles and Washington DC, and See Something Say Something in Las Vegas and
New York
* TW-LE (TrapWire Law Enforcement) provides the ability to gather, analyze
and disseminate information about surveillance and logistical activities
occurring across an entire geographic region, including information gathered
via TW CI and TW CM deployments"
www.trapwire.com/trapwire.html
TrapWire Inc. is a subsidiary of Abraxas Corporation, which founder and CEO
Richard Hollis Holms claims to be the "largest aggregate of analytical
counter-terrorism capabilities outside of the U.S. Government." A former
(?) company man himself, Helms may be implying here that only the CIA has
more CIA operatives on the payroll than he does. TrapWire is no exception,
as former (?) CIA operatives on staff there include among others:
Robert Daniel Botsch, President
Michael Thomas Maness, Director of Business Development
Michael K. Chang, Director of Operations
TrapWire took down their Who We Are and Management web pages after the
Wikileaks disclosures gave them apparently unwanted public attention, but
here are some screenshots and supplementary information:
p.twimg.com/Az85ovNCQAEl3MS.jpg
p.twimg.com/Az8572iCIAA5A_3.jpg
p.twimg.com/Az86KebCEAA3J3K.jpg
pastebin.com/7AxWEHJ5
www.nvtc.org/tec/RichardHelms.php
trapwire.com/
www.abraxascorp.com/
Speaking of being taken down, Wikileaks suffered a major DDOS (distributed
denial of service) attack shortly after the TrapWire releases were posted.
According to one observer:
'Now we have something new a group called AntiLeaks has popped up and
managed to drop a 10GB/s + DDoS attack on WikiLeaks, their affiliate sites
and mirrors. This is something pretty spectacular when you think about it.
The group claims to be a group of "young adults, citizens of the United
States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments
with Julian Assange and his attempt at asylum in Ecuador", but their tactics
and capabilities seems to indicate something more is going on here... Some
of the emails leaked indicate that Trapwire has extended beyond its original
scope of threat prediction and mitigation into more intrusive areas. This
is the type of information that Stratfor, the US Government and of course
Abraxas would not want to be public. Some of the data the system is
collecting could actually be in violation of privacy laws (as well as
potentially violating a few other surveillance laws). You can imagine that
with the connection to Stratfor and the US Government Abraxas has there
would be some high-level interest in keeping these emails from the public
eye. Again this would seem to put the attacks outside the realm of "young
adults" and more into the state or corporate sponsored arena.'
tinyurl.com/9zs27ds
I agree. I think Ben Doernberg would as well:
storify.com/bendoernberg/test-post/
TrapWire and/or "unknown parties" may have taken down Wikileaks in reaction
to Julian Assange's fearless and peerless team shedding the light of Truth
on their dark activities, but sadly what they DIDN'T take down is the
"TrapWire ThoughtCrime Detection Network" itself. If you work for one of
fascist Amerika's 16 national security bureaucracies or their myriad
"intelligence contractors", or if you're one of the thousands of LEOs and
collaborators participating in the DHS National Suspicious Activity
Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) - or "Nasi" for short - you're probably
logging in right now:
trapwire.net/
)(
NATIONWIDE SAR INITIATIVE
nsi.ncirc.gov/
SAR LIST BY STATE
amerikanreich.com/sar-list/
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Key: trapwire, abraxas, stratfor, cia, big brother, police state,
surveillance, sheeple, political corruption, corporate greed, fascism,
fascists, kleptocracy, wikileaks, anonymous, ows, revolution, Richard H.
Helms, Richard Hollis Helms, Dan Botsch, Robert Daniel Botsch, Michael
Maness, Michael Thomas Maness, Michael K. Chang, Paul Chadha, John J. Reis,
John Jack Reis, Daniel V. Johnson, Stephen B. Coffman, Ted Crocker
Original Post: wp.me/p24X30-eO
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Anonymous Operation TrapWire - Press Release Posted by ohai on August 12,
2012
Sunday - August 12, 2012 11:00 AM ET USA
Greetings Citizens of the United States of America -
This weekend, it was disclosed by Wikileaks the details about a system known
as "TrapWire" that uses facial recognition and other techniques including
high-end artificial intelligence to track and monitor individuals using
countless different closed-circuit cameras operated by cities and other
institutions, including private businesses. This program also monitors all
social media on the internet. The software is billed as a method by which to
prevent terrorism, but can of course also be used to provide unprecedented
surveillance and data-mining capabilities to governments and corporations -
including many with a history of using new technologies to violate the
rights of citizens. TrapWire is already used in New York, Los Angeles, Las
Vegas, Texas, DC, London, and other locales around the USA.
The ex-CIA agents who help run the firm are old friends of Stratfor vice
president Fred Burton, whom they've briefed on their own capabilities in
e-mails obtained by Anonymous hackers and provided to WikiLeaks. Stratfor
has engaged in several surveillance operations against activists, such as
those advocating for victims of the Bhopal disaster - on behalf of large
U.S. corporatons; Burton himelf was revealed to have advocated "bankrupting"
and "ruining the life" of activists like Julian Assange in e-mails to other
friends. TrapWire is extremely expensive to maintain, and is usually done so
at taxpayer expense; Los Angeles county alone has spent over .4 million
dollars on the software's use in a single three-month period of 2007.
Although most of the regions in which TrapWire operates don't share
information with each other, all of this is set to change; as Abraxas
Applications president Dan Botsch told Burton via e-mail, "I think over time
the different networks will begin to unite," noting that several networks
had already begun discussions on merging their information. Abraxas itself
has always had the ability to "cross-network matches" from every region at
their own office. By June 2011, Washington D.C. police were engaged in a
pilot project under the Departent of Homeland Security that's likely to lead
to more cities using TrapWire on a more integrated basis.
Abraxas, the firm whose spin-off Abraxas Applications developed TrapWire in
2007, has long been involved in a lesser-known practice known as persona
management, which involves the use of fake online "people" to gather
intelligence and/or disseminate disinformation. The firm Ntrepid, created by
Abraxas owner Cubic Corporation, won a 2010 CENTCOM contract to provide such
capabilities for use in foreign countries; several board members of Ntrepid
also sit on Abraxas.
The more we learn about TrapWire and similar systems, it becomes absolutely
clear that we must at all costs shut this system down and render it useless.
A giant AI electronic brain able to monitor us through a combination of
access to all the CCTV cameras as well as all the online social media feeds
is monstrous and Orwellian in it's implications and possibilities. The
Peoples Liberation Front and Anonymous will now put forth a call to arms,
and initiate the doom of this evil and misbegotten program. We will use the
following tactics to accomplish this goal:
1) The PLF and Anonymous will work closely with WikiLeaks and Project PM to
gather, collate, disclose and disseminate as much information as possible
about TrapWire and it's related technologies and programs. This was begun
this weekend, and already much has been learned. And they are scared of
this, already many sites and repositories of data on TrapWire are
disappearing - being taken down by those who do not want you to know the
truth about what they are doing. And WikiLeaks is at this writing enduring a
massive and historic DdoS attack in an attempt to conceal this information
from the public. We will do this not only to educate the general public
regarding TrapWire, but to move them to pressure their representatives to
shut down funding for this and similar programs of massive surveillance, and
to pass laws outlawing the creation of future projects of this type.
2) ACTION ALERT - "Smash A Cam Saturday": TrapWire has access to virtually
all CCTV's that have IP/internet connectivity. We have prepared an initial
map/database of these cameras across the USA, and we will continue to expand
this knowledge base.
bit.ly/PcByYJ
While this database is a good guide to high priority camera targets, we
encourage everyone to target any camera with IP/internet connectivity. We
are asking everyone to sabotage at least one CCTV per week on what we are
calling "Smash A Cam Saturday". We have provided this excellent manual of
different tactics and strategies for disabling or destroying these "eyes of
the beast".
bit.ly/1Qjp
3) As stated above, this "monster" doesn't just have eyes that need gouging
out - it also has "ears". TrapWire constantly monitors social media. In a
strange twist of fate, the company that developed TrapWire also works on
something called "sock-puppet" programs. These are projects designed to
create thousands of fake personas on social media. We will turn this idea
and software against them, creating thousands of phony accounts and use them
to produce a deluge of false triggers for the TrapWire program - essentially
drowning it in "white noise".
4) Finally, the Peoples Liberation Front and Anonymous will do what we do
best. We will find, hack - and destroy the servers where the AI "electronic
brain" of this program is housed.
Operation TrapWire is a direct action of the over-arching Anonymous
Operation USA. TrapWire is but one instance of how the government of the USA
has turned against it's own citizens, designating them as suspects and
enemies. Now those citizens rise, and take back their country and their
freedom. Welcome to the Second American Revolution.
We Are Anonymous
We Are Legion
We Never Forgive
We Never Forget
Government of the USA, it's to late to EXPECT US.
Op Graphic - www.flickr.com/photos/80569118@N06/7766122174
Additional Information - publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/
wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Cubic_Corporation#Abraxas.2FAnonym...
Tracking TrapWire on Google Maps - goo.gl/maps/de9H0
Source:
remainanonymous.org/2012/08/12/anonymous-operation-trapwi...
ease/
TrapWire: If You SEE Something SMASH Something!
Image by watchingfrogsboil
Ignored by corporate media, Wikileaks has exposed a CIA-linked Orwellian
thoughtcrime surveillance network that goes far beyond "suspicious activity
reporting".
)(
TRAPWIRE: SPYING ON YOU. PREDICTING YOUR MOVES.
"Hacked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor shed light on a
global suspicious activity surveillance system called TrapWire that is
reportedly in use in locations around the world from the London Stock
Exchange to the White House. The emails [released by WikiLeaks] provide
information on the extent and operations of a system designed to correlate
suspicious activity reports and other evidence that may indicate [a
potential crime or terrorist attack]."
publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/
A TrapWire white paper describes their offering as "a unique, predictive
software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance. As
such, TrapWire represents the basis for a paradigm shift in the
methodologies traditionally applied to securing critical infrastructure and
personnel; a paradigm shift from the currently accepted and widely adopted
philosophy of damage mitigation through increased physical security to a new
and proactive approach of attack prevention through the identification and
disruption of pre-attack planning and surveillance activities."
www.cicc.org/pdf/TRAPWIRE_Whitepaper_generic.pdf
In other words, TrapWire is for all intents and purposes an Orwellian
thoughtcrime detection system. As their website explains, "TrapWire
detects, analyzes and alerts on suspicious events as they are collected over
periods of time and across multiple locations. Through the systematic
capture of these pre-attack indicators, terrorist or criminal surveillance
and pre-attack planning operations can be identified... There are currently
three different TrapWire systems available for public and private sector
clients:
* TW-CI (TrapWire Critical Infrastructure) focuses on the identification of
pre-operational surveillance activities occurring around specific sites
within the TrapWire Network
* TW-CM (TrapWire Community Member) supports the online reporting of
suspicious behavior by community members, such as the iWatch programs in Los
Angeles and Washington DC, and See Something Say Something in Las Vegas and
New York
* TW-LE (TrapWire Law Enforcement) provides the ability to gather, analyze
and disseminate information about surveillance and logistical activities
occurring across an entire geographic region, including information gathered
via TW CI and TW CM deployments"
www.trapwire.com/trapwire.html
TrapWire Inc. is a subsidiary of Abraxas Corporation, which founder and CEO
Richard Hollis Holms claims to be the "largest aggregate of analytical
counter-terrorism capabilities outside of the U.S. Government." A former
(?) company man himself, Helms may be implying here that only the CIA has
more CIA operatives on the payroll than he does. TrapWire is no exception,
as former (?) CIA operatives on staff there include among others:
Robert Daniel Botsch, President
Michael Thomas Maness, Director of Business Development
Michael K. Chang, Director of Operations
TrapWire took down their Who We Are and Management web pages after the
Wikileaks disclosures gave them apparently unwanted public attention, but
here are some screenshots and supplementary information:
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pastebin.com/7AxWEHJ5
www.nvtc.org/tec/RichardHelms.php
trapwire.com/
www.abraxascorp.com/
Speaking of being taken down, Wikileaks suffered a major DDOS (distributed
denial of service) attack shortly after the TrapWire releases were posted.
According to one observer:
'Now we have something new a group called AntiLeaks has popped up and
managed to drop a 10GB/s + DDoS attack on WikiLeaks, their affiliate sites
and mirrors. This is something pretty spectacular when you think about it.
The group claims to be a group of "young adults, citizens of the United
States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments
with Julian Assange and his attempt at asylum in Ecuador", but their tactics
and capabilities seems to indicate something more is going on here... Some
of the emails leaked indicate that Trapwire has extended beyond its original
scope of threat prediction and mitigation into more intrusive areas. This
is the type of information that Stratfor, the US Government and of course
Abraxas would not want to be public. Some of the data the system is
collecting could actually be in violation of privacy laws (as well as
potentially violating a few other surveillance laws). You can imagine that
with the connection to Stratfor and the US Government Abraxas has there
would be some high-level interest in keeping these emails from the public
eye. Again this would seem to put the attacks outside the realm of "young
adults" and more into the state or corporate sponsored arena.'
tinyurl.com/9zs27ds
I agree. I think Ben Doernberg would as well:
storify.com/bendoernberg/test-post/
TrapWire and/or "unknown parties" may have taken down Wikileaks in reaction
to Julian Assange's fearless and peerless team shedding the light of Truth
on their dark activities, but sadly what they DIDN'T take down is the
"TrapWire ThoughtCrime Detection Network" itself. If you work for one of
fascist Amerika's 16 national security bureaucracies or their myriad
"intelligence contractors", or if you're one of the thousands of LEOs and
collaborators participating in the DHS National Suspicious Activity
Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) - or "Nasi" for short - you're probably
logging in right now:
trapwire.net/
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NATIONWIDE SAR INITIATIVE
nsi.ncirc.gov/
SAR LIST BY STATE
amerikanreich.com/sar-list/
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Anonymous Operation TrapWire - Press Release Posted by ohai on August 12,
2012
Sunday - August 12, 2012 11:00 AM ET USA
Greetings Citizens of the United States of America -
This weekend, it was disclosed by Wikileaks the details about a system known
as "TrapWire" that uses facial recognition and other techniques including
high-end artificial intelligence to track and monitor individuals using
countless different closed-circuit cameras operated by cities and other
institutions, including private businesses. This program also monitors all
social media on the internet. The software is billed as a method by which to
prevent terrorism, but can of course also be used to provide unprecedented
surveillance and data-mining capabilities to governments and corporations -
including many with a history of using new technologies to violate the
rights of citizens. TrapWire is already used in New York, Los Angeles, Las
Vegas, Texas, DC, London, and other locales around the USA.
The ex-CIA agents who help run the firm are old friends of Stratfor vice
president Fred Burton, whom they've briefed on their own capabilities in
e-mails obtained by Anonymous hackers and provided to WikiLeaks. Stratfor
has engaged in several surveillance operations against activists, such as
those advocating for victims of the Bhopal disaster - on behalf of large
U.S. corporatons; Burton himelf was revealed to have advocated "bankrupting"
and "ruining the life" of activists like Julian Assange in e-mails to other
friends. TrapWire is extremely expensive to maintain, and is usually done so
at taxpayer expense; Los Angeles county alone has spent over .4 million
dollars on the software's use in a single three-month period of 2007.
Although most of the regions in which TrapWire operates don't share
information with each other, all of this is set to change; as Abraxas
Applications president Dan Botsch told Burton via e-mail, "I think over time
the different networks will begin to unite," noting that several networks
had already begun discussions on merging their information. Abraxas itself
has always had the ability to "cross-network matches" from every region at
their own office. By June 2011, Washington D.C. police were engaged in a
pilot project under the Departent of Homeland Security that's likely to lead
to more cities using TrapWire on a more integrated basis.
Abraxas, the firm whose spin-off Abraxas Applications developed TrapWire in
2007, has long been involved in a lesser-known practice known as persona
management, which involves the use of fake online "people" to gather
intelligence and/or disseminate disinformation. The firm Ntrepid, created by
Abraxas owner Cubic Corporation, won a 2010 CENTCOM contract to provide such
capabilities for use in foreign countries; several board members of Ntrepid
also sit on Abraxas.
The more we learn about TrapWire and similar systems, it becomes absolutely
clear that we must at all costs shut this system down and render it useless.
A giant AI electronic brain able to monitor us through a combination of
access to all the CCTV cameras as well as all the online social media feeds
is monstrous and Orwellian in it's implications and possibilities. The
Peoples Liberation Front and Anonymous will now put forth a call to arms,
and initiate the doom of this evil and misbegotten program. We will use the
following tactics to accomplish this goal:
1) The PLF and Anonymous will work closely with WikiLeaks and Project PM to
gather, collate, disclose and disseminate as much information as possible
about TrapWire and it's related technologies and programs. This was begun
this weekend, and already much has been learned. And they are scared of
this, already many sites and repositories of data on TrapWire are
disappearing - being taken down by those who do not want you to know the
truth about what they are doing. And WikiLeaks is at this writing enduring a
massive and historic DdoS attack in an attempt to conceal this information
from the public. We will do this not only to educate the general public
regarding TrapWire, but to move them to pressure their representatives to
shut down funding for this and similar programs of massive surveillance, and
to pass laws outlawing the creation of future projects of this type.
2) ACTION ALERT - "Smash A Cam Saturday": TrapWire has access to virtually
all CCTV's that have IP/internet connectivity. We have prepared an initial
map/database of these cameras across the USA, and we will continue to expand
this knowledge base.
bit.ly/PcByYJ
While this database is a good guide to high priority camera targets, we
encourage everyone to target any camera with IP/internet connectivity. We
are asking everyone to sabotage at least one CCTV per week on what we are
calling "Smash A Cam Saturday". We have provided this excellent manual of
different tactics and strategies for disabling or destroying these "eyes of
the beast".
bit.ly/1Qjp
3) As stated above, this "monster" doesn't just have eyes that need gouging
out - it also has "ears". TrapWire constantly monitors social media. In a
strange twist of fate, the company that developed TrapWire also works on
something called "sock-puppet" programs. These are projects designed to
create thousands of fake personas on social media. We will turn this idea
and software against them, creating thousands of phony accounts and use them
to produce a deluge of false triggers for the TrapWire program - essentially
drowning it in "white noise".
4) Finally, the Peoples Liberation Front and Anonymous will do what we do
best. We will find, hack - and destroy the servers where the AI "electronic
brain" of this program is housed.
Operation TrapWire is a direct action of the over-arching Anonymous
Operation USA. TrapWire is but one instance of how the government of the USA
has turned against it's own citizens, designating them as suspects and
enemies. Now those citizens rise, and take back their country and their
freedom. Welcome to the Second American Revolution.
We Are Anonymous
We Are Legion
We Never Forgive
We Never Forget
Government of the USA, it's to late to EXPECT US.
Op Graphic - www.flickr.com/photos/80569118@N06/7766122174
Additional Information - publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/
wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Cubic_Corporation#Abraxas.2FAnonym...
Tracking TrapWire on Google Maps - goo.gl/maps/de9H0
Source:
remainanonymous.org/2012/08/12/anonymous-operation-trapwi...
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