Wikileaks: CIA-connected private intelligence firm TrapWire watching Americans. The latest WikiLeaks release has shone a spotlight on an alleged domestic and foreign surveillance program run with cloud-based software provided by Virginia company TrapWire, many of whose top leaders and employees are former members of three-letter American intelligence agencies.
WikiLeaks tweeted about it today, and the story quickly became a trending topic on Twitter: TrapWire produces software that is currently in use by Homeland Security, the military, U.S. intelligence agencies, and local police forces including the LAPD and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC (whose chief recently praised the software). Private sector clients include major corporations in the energy, chemical, and financial industries. If TrapWire does what it is intended to, it’s potentially a critical innovation that can help protect the U.S. from terrorism. Tying together disparate facts from multiple sources across geographies might have prevented 9-11. Image credit: ShutterStock/Steven Finn. Unravelling TrapWire: The CIA-Connected Global Suspicious Activity Surveillance System. A screenshot from the front page of trapwire.net, which is believed to be a web-based portal affiliated with the TrapWire system.
Public Intelligence Hacked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor shed light on a global suspicious activity surveillance system called TrapWire that is reportedly in use in locations around the world from the London Stock Exchange to the White House. The emails, which were released yesterday by WikiLeaks, provide information on the extent and operations of a system designed to correlate suspicious activity reports and other evidence that may indicate surveillance connected with a potential terrorist attack.
A proprietary white paper produced by TrapWire, formerly called Abraxas Applications, describes the product as “a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance.” High-Profile Clients Around the World The emails also suggest that TrapWire is in use at military bases around the country. WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network. TrapWire. Apple not allowed to keep survey secrets in Samsung case. As the Apple vs Samsung case continues to rage on, this Friday's proceedings have begun with a ruling on Apple's ability to keep secret their customer surveys galore.
It may seem like a strange situation that Apple would have to reveal what their surveyed customers have said about the iPhone and iPad while at the same time Samsung is being denied usage of evidence in spades, but such is this case's rather intricate set of rulings before the jury even sees the case in action. Additionally this morning's proceedings have been preceded by a ruling that Apple's request for sanctions against Samsung will be denied. This second bit of business about sanctions has to do with Apple seeking to punish Samsung, so to speak, for releasing information that Apple and Judge Koh understood to be inadmissible in the case. Samsung maintains that the information presented before the trial, (and subsequently shared with the press), is still not a part of the trial as the jury has not seen it.
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. 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. . - snip - Read more: Asher Wolf @Asher_Wolf What is TrapWire?