Category Archives: Computer security

TrapWire and it’s training and demo satellites are all disabled

TrapWire, the surveillance system, is down as well as its satellite sites (at time of going to press). See https://trapwire.net/ This might be because it is undergoing maintenance, or because it is being moved to a more secure site, or … Continue reading

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FinSpy surveillance servers hacked & software stolen: details and background

FinSpy surveillance servers were hacked and subsequently removed after software stolen. Two days ago, a statement issued by Gamma International, which owns the software, said simply that their server had been broken into and that several demonstration copies of FinSpy … Continue reading

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TrapWire/Abraxas/Ntrepid/Cubic/Tartan: the knowns, unknowns and two scenarios.…

Researchers – Barrett Brown, Asher Wolf, Justin Ferguson as well as investigators from Darker Net – have been contemporaneously looking into the links between TrapWire, Abraxas, Ntrepid, Cubic Corporation and (more recently) Tartan from different directions, but have come to … Continue reading

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Tartan Metrics, the firm that targets protesters’ affiliations: we target theirs

Mathematical modelers are out to target protesters, specifically anarchists and members of Occupy, and have put together an algorithm for working out the various affiliations of anarchists. It goes under a programme heading, Tartan, and is operated by a front … Continue reading

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Cubic Corporation: more evidence of TrapWire link; their darker side exposed

Cubic Corporation denies via a press release (and a comment posted on the Darker Net site) that it owns TrapWire, but there is another layer to this that exposes how this denial does not completely add up – details below. … Continue reading

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TrapWire and Stratfor are business partners – documentary evidence

Stratfor, the private Intelligence-gathering company whose emails were hacked by Anonymous then published by Wikileaks, didn’t just comment on TrapWire via its emails: in August 2009 it joined with the TrapWire project via a partnership deal with Abraxas Applications. And … Continue reading

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TrapWire: the Barclays connection; UK & Aussie army training; questions asked of UK PM, Aussie Senate…

Within hours of the story breaking about TrapWire, the British Prime Minister and the Metropolitan Police were asked to investigate, while in Australia a question was raised in the Senate. The UK Daily Mail covered the story and Cubic has … Continue reading

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Breaking: Trapwire surveillance linked to Anonymizer and transport smart cards

Anonymizer, the company that brings you free anonymous email facilities, called nyms, as well as similar secure services used by activists all over the world, is owned by Ntrepid but some of it’s staff expertise moved to Abraxas Corporation (when … Continue reading

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Abraxas and Trapwire: the technology and personnel revealed

TrapWire is a secret global surveillance system, founded in 2004 and run by ex-CIA chiefs, with clients all over the world. It’s significance is that it is being used for all sorts of surveillance, including everyday protests. The existence of … Continue reading

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Government is spying on you: here are 10 steps on how to avoid it (Part 1)

Note: Part 2 will appear soon. As with the USA and elsewhere, the UK Govt Home Office has said that they have the technology to look inside HTTPS. It’s likely they will do this via SSL snooping boxes. However, it’s … Continue reading

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