Stratfor Emails Reveal Secret, Widespread TrapWire Surveillance System
Source: Russia Today
Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system
Published: 10 August, 2012, 11:23
Edited: 10 August, 2012, 17:43
Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.
Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. Its part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from Americas intelligence community. The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a whos who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented.
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Hacktivists aligned with the loose-knit Anonymous collective took credit for hacking Stratfor on Christmas Eve, 2011, in turn collecting what they claimed to be more than five million emails from within the company. WikiLeaks began releasing those emails as the Global Intelligence Files (GIF) earlier this year and, of those, several discussing the implementing of TrapWire in public spaces across the country were circulated on the Web this week after security researcher Justin Ferguson brought attention to the matter. At the same time, however, WikiLeaks was relentlessly assaulted by a barrage of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, crippling the whistleblower site and its mirrors, significantly cutting short the number of people who would otherwise have unfettered access to the emails.
On Wednesday, an administrator for the WikiLeaks Twitter account wrote that the site suspected that the motivation for the attacks could be that particularly sensitive Stratfor emails were about to be exposed. A hacker group called AntiLeaks soon after took credit for the assaults on WikiLeaks and mirrors of their content, equating the offensive as a protest against editor Julian Assange, the head of a new breed of terrorist. As those Stratfor files on TrapWire make their rounds online, though, talk of terrorism is only just beginning.
Read more: http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-trapwire-abraxas-wikileaks-313/
What is TrapWire? Real-time, video facial profiling, linked to red-flag databases. Thousands of cameras across the U.S., the U.K., and Canada.
loudsue
(14,087 posts)Give me a fucking break!! What's up is really down, and down is up, and black is white. And don't dare argue or you'll be called a terrorist.
Equate
(256 posts)It had to have govt. authorization, was it the bushco or the Obama admin. that okayed this?
Our civil rights are truly disappearing day by day.
What has become of the world's greatest experiment in democracy?
pscot
(21,024 posts)at the President's desk.
But whose Admin. did it actually start in and who authorized it? I'm guessing it was the Bushco years and Pres. Obama inherited it.
dreampunk
(88 posts)it is an abject FAILURE. It has made americans and other citizens of the planet LESS free, as has not prevented mass killings by either crazy persons nor governments (US drones, uncontrolled contractors, others around the globe).
If I read this correctly, it is not an american govt. agency, rather some sort of corporation? Perhaps part of the prison industrial complex/US mass crowd control?
I was hoping to leave the US for good as my wife is Kiwi and were going to go to New Zealand, but now she has moved out of the country on her own thing. at 65, I will stay, as my rural home is paid for and comfortable (long before I married her).
I am beginning to become as paranoid as a freeper!
When will dreams, wishes and yearnings show on their security thievery apparatus?
More from the article:
State of Texas reportedly spent half a million dollars with an additional annual licensing fee of $150,000 to employ TrapWire, and the Pentagon and other military facilities have allegedly signed on as well.
It is a FOR PROFIT contractor sucking MORE money out of circulation, and aiding the attempt to make outfits like OCCUPY "illegal". You really should follow the link to the mother article.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)In particular, counter-surveillance of terrorist intelligence gathering activities indicating an impending attack.
While there is an emphasis on closed circuit video data collection, I don't see anything that is a breakthrough.
http://www.trapwire.com/trapwire.html
neohippie
(1,142 posts)government simply outsources all of it's dirty work, they don't have to break any laws or worry about privacy restrictions, because they just contract with a private company to do that and apparently that is okay
formercia
(18,479 posts)It is routinely done to ensure plausible denial of potentially illegal activities.
Your Tax Dollars at work.
struggle4progress
(118,292 posts)... the US Department of Homeland Security and Department of Defense together awarded Abraxas and TrapWire more than one million dollars in only the past eleven months ...
That's what? an average of $20K per state? Abraxas and TrapWire aren't running the scheme described on $20K per state per year