Palantir Apologizes For WikiLeaks Attack Proposal, Cuts Ties With HBGary - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. OK, So... - Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:46:34 -0700. Runescape is wow 2002 - Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:34:16 -0700. Cyber plot for a fiction story - Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:38:20 -0700. Big maps of china - Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:17:07 -0700. FBI + HBGary - Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:48:28 -0500.
Stuxnet - Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:26:02 -0700. Re: Stuxnet - Fri, 6 Aug 2010 11:56:56 -0700. Palantir sorry for WikiLeaks sabotage plan | San Francisco Business Times. Patrick Hoge Reporter Email Well, this is embarrassing: Palantir Technologies of Palo Alto - a high profile data analysis company with extensive government contracts - has apologized for its role in developing a proposal for Bank of America to combat WikiLeaks with such tactics as intimidating a reporter, cyber attacks and disinformation. Palantir CEO and co-founder Alex Karp issued a statement apologizing to lawyer and reporter Glenn Greenwald and severed all ties with HBGary Federal, which along with Palantir and Berico Technologies created the plan, according to The TechHerald, which broke the story after receiving copies of e-mails and a PowerPoint presentation that hackers obtained from HBGary Federal's computers.
Wikileaks posted a copy of the PowerPoint presentation, which appears with only Palantir's name and logo on every page, though the other companies are mentioned in the text. Later in the day, Berico Technologies also publicly severed ties with HBGary Federal as well. Three security companies attempt to make mockery of the First Amendment. February 11, 2011 Most security companies, I like to believe, are noble and ethical enterprises. Yes they make good money out of the fact that the online world is a dark, scary place, but they also provide an invaluable service: protecting innocent individuals and organizations from the dangers that lurk in the shadows.
But when the hacker group Anonymous recently leaked a stolen slide deck that revealed how three security and intelligence firms (Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies) planned to silence WikiLeaks, and its proponents, including a journalist, in the name of a possible lucrative contract from Bank of America, I was deeply offended and insulted. (Palantir's CEO has since apologized). But a major source of my frustration also emanated from the fact that the presentation suggested targeting arguably one of the world's most truth-telling, roving, talented, cogent and investigative journalists: Glenn Greenwald of Salon.
Greenwald is offended. How One Man Tracked Down Anonymous — And Paid a Heavy Price | Threat Level. Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them. But matching their online identities to real-world names and locations proved daunting. Barr found a way to crack the code. In a private e-mail to a colleague at his security firm HBGary Federal, which sells digital tools to the US government, the CEO bragged about his research project. “They think I have nothing but a heirarchy based on IRC [Internet Relay Chat] aliases!” He wrote. “As 1337 as these guys are suppsed to be they don’t get it. But had he? “We are kind of pissed at him right now” Aaron Barr Barr’s “pwning” meant finding out the names and addresses of the top Anonymous leadership.
Near the end of January, Barr began publicizing his information, though without divulging the names of the Anonymous admins. Indeed, publicity was the plan. “I will sell it” Update: Palantir apologizes for proposal to attack WikiLeaks | Raw Story. By Eric W. DolanWednesday, February 9, 2011 13:33 EDT The data intelligence firm Palantir Technologies apologized Thursday for its involvement in developing a proposal to Bank of America to attack secrets outlet WikiLeaks.
Two other data intelligence firms, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies, helped to concoct a plan for a coordinated cyber assault against the website. “I have directed the company to sever any and all contacts with HB Gary,” Co-Founder and CEO of Palantir Alex Karp said in a statement. “Palantir Technologies provides a software analytic platform for the analysis of data,” he continued. “We do not provide – nor do we have any plans to develop – offensive cyber capabilities.” The plan was revealed after members of “Anonymous” hacked the email account of HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr and published its contents to the web. “The right to free speech and the right to privacy are critical to a flourishing democracy,” Karp’s statement added. Original story continues below. Corporate Anti-Wikileaks hacktivism | Beyond The Beyond. *For every one of these schemes that blows up in public, there’s a thousand of ‘em that never see the light of day. *If you’re Glenn Greenwald, you might be getting kind of upset about being extralegally targeted by bank hacktivists with those much-persecuted Wikileaks hacktivists.
“But after learning a lot more over the last couple of days, I now take this more seriously — not in terms of my involvement but the broader implications this story highlights. For one thing, it turns out that the firms involved here are large, legitimate and serious, and do substantial amounts of work for both the U.S. Government and the nation’s largest private corporations (as but one example, see this email from a Stanford computer science student about Palantir). The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters - WikiLeaks.