Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
Remember the One About the Couple with the “Hit List” in Alaska? Drug Addled Husband Had Some Help from Undercover Cop
August 17th, 2010Via: AP: A rural Alaska couple accused of domestic terrorism compiled a hit list of 20 targets, including members of the military and media, and had moved to the operational phase of their plan, according to documents filed in federal court Monday. Paul and Nadia Rockwood of King Salmon have pleaded guilty to lying about […]
Adrian Lamo Is a “Volunteer” for Project Vigilant, a Private Internet Surveillance Company Closely Linked to U.S. Intelligence
August 2nd, 2010Via: Forbes: A semi-secret government contractor that calls itself Project Vigilant surfaced at the Defcon security conference Sunday with a series of revelations: that it monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers, hands much of that information to federal agencies, and encouraged one of its “volunteers”, researcher Adrian Lamo, to inform the federal […]
Terrorism Case Baffles Remote Alaska Town
August 1st, 2010My guess is that the following line is the most useful piece of information in the article: …this has the air of a poorly written movie. You visited some site and then you were found with a piece of paper that contained some words. Ready to plea bargain? When it’s time for a law enforcement […]
CIA and Google Fund Same Web Surveillance Startup
July 29th, 2010Via: Wired: The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships […]
Joint Special Operations University: Blogs and Military Information Strategy
July 21st, 2010Via: U.S. Special Operations Command / Hosted at Cryptome (PDF): In this regard, information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence already within the target nation, group, or community to pass the U.S. message. In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of […]
FBI Rolls Up Russian Spy Ring
June 29th, 2010Via: New York Times: They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers. But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of […]
Napolitano on Internet Surveillance
June 20th, 2010Via: AP: Fighting homegrown terrorism by monitoring Internet communications is a civil liberties trade-off the U.S. government must make to beef up national security, the nation’s homeland security chief said Friday. As terrorists increasingly recruit U.S. citizens, the government needs to constantly balance Americans’ civil rights and privacy with the need to keep people safe, […]
The Strange and Consequential Case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks
June 18th, 2010This is a lengthy meditation on the Manning/Lamo/WikiLeaks situation. It’s very worth going through, but don’t expect to come away with any clear conclusions as to what actually happened here. Via: Salon: From the start, this whole story was quite strange for numerous reasons.
NSA Whistleblower Used Hushmail to Communicate with Reporter
June 16th, 2010Absolutely no surprises here. At best, Hushmail is useless for communications where a state is the privacy attacker. At worst, it’s a purpose built honeypot. See this one from 2007: Hushmail: Encrypted Email Provider Turns Over Clear Text Messages to Feds. Via: Weekly Standard: To communicate covertly with the Sun reporter, Drake opened up a […]
U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
June 7th, 2010I have a bit of trouble believing what Wired is reporting here. One just can’t go “rummaging through” compartmented files. Each person with access to a particular compartment would have to be individually cleared for that compartment. Say the compartmented thing is a new spy plane that is designated with the codeword AAA. Bob works […]
