Those surveillance cameras all over are linked to one big network

[almost ready]

Stratford emails outed by Wikileaks tells that this system is in place now.

Stratfor Emails Reveal Secret, Widespread TrapWire Surveillance System

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. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community. The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s 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.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014189696

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The U.S. cable networks won't be covering this one tonight (not accurately, anyway), but Trapwire is making the rounds on social media today—it reportedly became a Trending hashtag on Twitter earlier in the day.


Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison.

And the ambitious techno-fascists behind Trapwire seem to be quite disappointed that word is getting out so swiftly; the Wikileaks web site is reportedly sustaining 10GB worth of DDoS attacks each second, which is massive.

Anyway, here's what Trapwire is, according to Russian-state owned media network RT (apologies for citing "foreign media"... if we had a free press, I'd be citing something published here by an American media conglomerate): "Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology—and have installed it across the U.S. 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. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community.

The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s 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. The details on Abraxas and, to an even greater extent TrapWire, are scarce, however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to thwart terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its understandable that Abraxas would want the program’s public presence to be relatively limited. But thanks to last year’s hack of the Strategic Forecasting intelligence agency, or Stratfor, all of that is quickly changing."

So: those spooky new "circular" dark globe cameras installed in your neighborhood park, town, or city—they aren't just passively monitoring. They're plugged into Trapwire and they are potentially monitoring every single person via facial recognition.

In related news, the Obama administration is fighting in federal court this week for the ability to imprison American citizens under NDAA's indefinite detention provisions—and anyone else—without charge or trial, on suspicion alone.

So we have a widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes.

Here's what is also so disturbing about this whole NDAA business: "This past week's hearing was even more terrifying. Government attorneys again, in this hearing, presented no evidence to support their position and brought forth no witnesses. Most incredibly, Obama's attorneys refused to assure the court, when questioned, that the NDAA's section 1021 – the provision that permits reporters and others who have not committed crimes to be detained without trial – has not been applied by the U.S. government anywhere in the world after Judge Forrest's injunction. In other words, they were telling a U.S. federal judge that they could not, or would not, state whether Obama's government had complied with the legal injunction that she had laid down before them. To this, Judge Forrest responded that if the provision had indeed been applied, the United States government would be in contempt of court."

If none of this bothers you, please don't follow me on Twitter, because nothing I report on will be of interest to you. Go back to watching the television news network of your choice, where you will hear about Romney's latest campaign ads, and whether Obamacare will increase the cost of delivery pizza by 14 to 16 cents.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trapw...#ixzz23GF9a483

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gee, looks like that movie "surrogates" with the system in place wasn't science fiction after all, at least on that point. Wonder if they use real people in ours, too, cause they're better than the computers?

[Troke]

And the guys that programmed this gizmo, they the same guys that programmed that investment firm to lose half a billiion $ in a micro-second?

[Heliobas Disciple]

Life imitates art, or in this case, art may have imitated life if the tv show creators had inside info on this 'machine'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfRNWdihRZg
Opening sequence for the tv show Person of Interest.


HD

[almost ready]

Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system

Published: 10 August, 2012, 11:23
Edited: 11 August, 2012, 01:35

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. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community. The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s 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.

The details on Abraxas and, to an even greater extent TrapWire, are scarce, however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to thwart terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its understandable that Abraxas would want the program’s public presence to be relatively limited. But thanks to last year’s hack of the Strategic Forecasting intelligence agency, or Stratfor, all of that is quickly changing.

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.

Mr. Ferguson and others have mirrored what are believed to be most recently-released Global Intelligence Files on external sites, but the original documents uploaded to WikiLeaks have been at times unavailable this week due to the continuing DDoS attacks. Late Thursday and early Friday this week, the GIF mirrors continues to go offline due to what is presumably more DDoS assaults. Australian activist Asher Wolf wrote on Twitter that the DDoS attacks flooding the servers of WikiLeaks supporter sites were reported to be dropping upwards of 40 gigabits of traffic per second. On Friday, WikiLeaks tweeted that their own site was sustaining attacks of 10 Gb/second, adding, "Whoever is running it controls thousands of machines or is able to simulate them."

According to a press release (pdf) dated June 6, 2012, TrapWire is “designed to provide a simple yet powerful means of collecting and recording suspicious activity reports.” A system of interconnected nodes spot anything considered suspect and then input it into the system to be "analyzed and compared with data entered from other areas within a network for the purpose of identifying patterns of behavior that are indicative of pre-attack planning.”

In a 2009 email included in the Anonymous leak, Stratfor Vice President for Intelligence Fred Burton is alleged to write, “TrapWire is a technology solution predicated upon behavior patterns in red zones to identify surveillance. It helps you connect the dots over time and distance.” Burton formerly served with the US Diplomatic Security Service, and Abraxas’ staff includes other security experts with experience in and out of the Armed Forces.

What is believed to be a partnering agreement included in the Stratfor files from August 13, 2009 indicates that they signed a contract with Abraxas to provide them with analysis and reports of their TrapWire system (pdf).

“Suspicious activity reports from all facilities on the TrapWire network are aggregated in a central database and run through a rules engine that searches for patterns indicative of terrorist surveillance operations and other attack preparations,” Crime and Justice International magazine explains in a 2006 article on the program, one of the few publically circulated on the Abraxas product (pdf). “Any patterns detected – links among individuals, vehicles or activities – will be reported back to each affected facility. This information can also be shared with law enforcement organizations, enabling them to begin investigations into the suspected surveillance cell.”

In a 2005 interview with The Entrepreneur Center, Abraxas founder Richard “Hollis” Helms said his signature product “can collect information about people and vehicles that is more accurate than facial recognition, draw patterns, and do threat assessments of areas that may be under observation from terrorists.” He calls it “a proprietary technology designed to protect critical national infrastructure from a terrorist attack by detecting the pre-attack activities of the terrorist and enabling law enforcement to investigate and engage the terrorist long before an attack is executed,” and that, “The beauty of it is that we can protect an infinite number of facilities just as efficiently as we can one and we push information out to local law authorities automatically.”

An internal email from early 2011 included in the Global Intelligence Files has Stratfor’s Burton allegedly saying the program can be used to “[walk] back and track the suspects from the get go w/facial recognition software.”

Since its inception, TrapWire has been implemented in most major American cities at selected high value targets (HVTs) and has appeared abroad as well. The iWatch monitoring system adopted by the Los Angeles Police Department (pdf) works in conjunction with TrapWire, as does the District of Columbia and the "See Something, Say Something" program conducted by law enforcement in New York City, which had 500 surveillance cameras linked to the system in 2010. Private properties including Las Vegas, Nevada casinos have subscribed to the system. The 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.

In one email from 2010 leaked by Anonymous, Stratfor’s Fred Burton allegedly writes, “God Bless America. Now they have EVERY major HVT in CONUS, the UK, Canada, Vegas, Los Angeles, NYC as clients.” Files on USASpending.gov reveal that 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.

News of the widespread and largely secretive installation of TrapWire comes amidst a federal witch-hunt to crack down on leaks escaping Washington and at attempt to prosecute whistleblowers. Thomas Drake, a former agent with the NSA, has recently spoken openly about the government’s Trailblazer Project that was used to monitor private communication, and was charged under the Espionage Act for coming forth. Separately, former NSA tech director William Binney and others once with the agency have made claims in recent weeks that the feds have dossiers on every American, an allegation NSA Chief Keith Alexander dismissed during a speech at Def-Con last month in Vegas.

http://rt.com/usa/news/stratfor-trap...wikileaks-313/
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[FREEBIRD]

Am I the only one who wonders why RT (Russia Today) is a go-to source these days? Maybe it's because I'm old enough to remember the Soviet Union; if, as some think, the "breakup" of the Soviet Union was more ploy than not (Putin is an old KGB guy, is he not?), I think twice before giving Russian sources credence.

Which doesn't mean this specific article is false or true. Just wondering if others question the source.

[ainitfunny]

What INFURIATES the taxpayers who PAY to furish all these friggin "toys" for people at every level of government who have been given "POLICE AUTHORITY" to protect us, WHY HAVEN'T ALL THE RESOURCES BEEN DIRECTED AT THE VIOLENT CRIMINALS AND GANGBANGERS WHO ARE TERRORIZIING US DAILY??

What MORE do you need to DO YOUR JOB?
Maybe a backbone implant and a massive transfusion of COURAGE, DUTY snd HONOR?

The "criminal justice system," the legislative, policing and the whole legal system is now as corrupt as the lowlife competing with them to strip the working citizens of anything they earn by working. It remains to be seen WHO will survive to reign over us, because as it presently sits, the government has not yet fully turned against the criminals to destroy their power, which is growing.

In the inner cities the gangs and criminals have ALREADY captured control from the "authorities", who fear to tread into those war zones, and face really dangerous people "who make the rules".

I think the "authorities" are waiting for and demanding the "carte blanche" unquestionable authority to kill anyone they choose on sight and are letting crime run rampant until the peace loving people give in and give the authorities the license to kill anyone, anyway and ABSOLUTE POWER over us. They will hope the authorities will just act against the criminals, but the criminals are not the one's with anything much to plunder.

[blueridge]

Some day soon, TPTB will know instantly when you clip your fingernails...
or open your bathroom medicine cabinet.

"What's wrong???..."

[JUNGLEBILL]

HEY AF.I totally agree with you +1000%,and that aint funny.JB

[Chair Warmer]

Some day soon, TPTB will know instantly when you clip your fingernails...
or open your bathroom medicine cabinet.

"What's wrong???..."

When you're taking a shower and hear a helicopter flying over your house, you'll find yourself instinctively covering your private parts...


Don't think it will happen someday... It's happening NOW.

They are using infrared cameras to look into your home to see if you have a meth lab setup... or anything else they want to look at... like taking inventory of your preps. And the x-ray cameras they use can see you naked.

[Flippper]

Not to mention fill your house with very dangerous radiation CW.

These spycams are being put into place so they can protect their seats from "terrorists" and we all know who they want to label with that title-they're setting up their infrastructure before they hit the start button so everything is in their favor. The antichrist will then take it away and use it to monitor who is and who isn't taking and using the mark and bowing down and worshiping him.

[brokenwings]

You are so very right! There will be absolutely no place to hide from the antichrist. I never thought I would see things happen so fast!

Not to mention fill your house with very dangerous radiation CW.

These spycams are being put into place so they can protect their seats from "terrorists" and we all know who they want to label with that title-they're setting up their infrastructure before they hit the start button so everything is in their favor. The antichrist will then take it away and use it to monitor who is and who isn't taking and using the mark and bowing down and worshiping him.

[FREEBIRD]

Well, for those who watch "Person of Interest", a continuing plotline has to do with massive police corruption, as referenced in post #6. so they may have nailed two interlocking puzzle pieces.

[changed]

What INFURIATES the taxpayers who PAY to furish all these friggin "toys" for people at every level of government who have been given "POLICE AUTHORITY" to protect us, WHY HAVEN'T ALL THE RESOURCES BEEN DIRECTED AT THE VIOLENT CRIMINALS AND GANGBANGERS WHO ARE TERRORIZIING US DAILY??

What MORE do you need to DO YOUR JOB?
Maybe a backbone implant and a massive transfusion of COURAGE, DUTY snd HONOR?

The "criminal justice system," the legislative, policing and the whole legal system is now as corrupt as the lowlife competing with them to strip the working citizens of anything they earn by working. It remains to be seen WHO will survive to reign over us, because as it presently sits, the government has not yet fully turned against the criminals to destroy their power, which is growing.

In the inner cities the gangs and criminals have ALREADY captured control from the "authorities", who fear to tread into those war zones, and face really dangerous people "who make the rules".

I think the "authorities" are waiting for and demanding the "carte blanche" unquestionable authority to kill anyone they choose on sight and are letting crime run rampant until the peace loving people give in and give the authorities the license to kill anyone, anyway and ABSOLUTE POWER over us. They will hope the authorities will just act against the criminals, but the criminals are not the one's with anything much to plunder.

Surveillance cameras don't prevent crime. They only help solve the crime once it has happened. All this isn't being set up to stop crime or even terrorism. It is being put together so that Christians can be tracked down and caught once the mark of the beast is implemented.

[L.A.B.]

OMGosh! I'm embarrassed then, as one of my fingers (not the same one that goes in my nose) is either famous or infamous. Not sure if it matters.

The real question is: whose camera is more impartial. Big brothers or mine?

Roll em Danno!

[L.A.B.]

"Anything you say CAN & WILL be used against you"... So how can frames of film purger you or provide witness?

Anybody?

Bueller... Buller...








Bueller .

[gunnersmom]

For any intelligence (using the term lightly) agency out there who is interested: I am getting ready for my bible reading. come kill me.

[TerryK]

What INFURIATES the taxpayers who PAY to furish all these friggin "toys" for people at every level of government who have been given "POLICE AUTHORITY" to protect us, WHY HAVEN'T ALL THE RESOURCES BEEN DIRECTED AT THE VIOLENT CRIMINALS AND GANGBANGERS WHO ARE TERRORIZIING US DAILY??
What MORE do you need to DO YOUR JOB?
Maybe a backbone implant and a massive transfusion of COURAGE, DUTY snd HONOR?
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The reason the government doesn't direct all the resources against the gangs and other things that actually threaten Americans is because that would be real work.
Instead they prefer to cruise the internet, find disgruntled people, contact them and goad them into planning terrorist acts. They even furnish the material.
Then when the time is right they step in and proudly announce to the whole world "See, we saved you from another evil terrorist. Give us more money and more power. Give up more of your freedoms so you will be safer. Trust us little sheep. "

[medic38572]

No subject change but get the book shadow government and read it. It will open your eyes to even a few agencies I had never heard about. Same thing going on!

[Y2kO]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[Be Well]

The reason the government doesn't direct all the resources against the gangs and other things that actually threaten Americans is because that would be real work.
Instead they prefer to cruise the internet, find disgruntled people, contact them and goad them into planning terrorist acts. They even furnish the material.
Then when the time is right they step in and proudly announce to the whole world "See, we saved you from another evil terrorist. Give us more money and more power. Give up more of your freedoms so you will be safer. Trust us little sheep. "

Not because it would be reall work, it's that they like the gangs, because the gangs sell drugs, and politicians get kick backs from the banks that launder the drug money, and likely directly from the cartels. It's not laziness, it's cupidity.