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 $1.4 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.
http://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”.
http://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.
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Op Graphic –
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80569118@N06/7766122174
Additional Information –
http://publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/
http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Cubic_Corporation#Abraxas.2FAnonymizer
