Compare information (metadata) collected on criminal scofflaws working under the cloak of US government contract against the acts the government finds reason to prosecute others of.
I highly recommend ProjectPM[1] started by folks including the US government prosecuted Barrett Brown[2]. As well as Blue Cabinet[3], started by Telecomix, the folks that strove to provide free dial-up to dissidents under digital/physical attack[4] while leaking[5] gigabytes upon gigabytes[6] of BlueCoat surveillance/ISP proxy logs from equipment illegally acquired by Assad.
Both sites work under the same premise, from ProjectPM:
"Project PM operates this wiki in order to provide a centralized, actionable data set regarding the intelligence contracting industry, the PR industry's interface with totalitarian regimes, the mushrooming infosec/"cybersecurity" industry, and other issues constituting threats to human rights, civic transparency, individual privacy, and the health of democratic institutions."
From Blue Cabinet:
"The Telecomix Blue Cabinet is a working wiki project to document vendors and manufacturers of surveillance equipment that are used in dictatorships and democracies around the internets."
Stored within is a wealth of information of the US government and others hiring mercenaries to spy on children as an example of technical skill for a deal with private entity US Chamber of Commerce as retaliation against Wikileaks[7], amongst other things.
The data sources involved include the aforementioned BlueCoat leak as well as the HBGary leak[8]. The data being the excuse to prosecute Barrett Brown of ProjectPM[9]. So do be careful unless you like being on an absurd amount of lists.
Activity such as deploying exploits on an unknowable amount of users, hacking of dissidents, _the government itself referring private entities like US Chamber of Commerce/Bank of America to the same firms it uses for surveillance work, as to target journalists like Glenn Greenwald[7]_. Makes using wget to ex-filtrate files quicker seem downright saintly.
I highly recommend ProjectPM[1] started by folks including the US government prosecuted Barrett Brown[2]. As well as Blue Cabinet[3], started by Telecomix, the folks that strove to provide free dial-up to dissidents under digital/physical attack[4] while leaking[5] gigabytes upon gigabytes[6] of BlueCoat surveillance/ISP proxy logs from equipment illegally acquired by Assad.
Both sites work under the same premise, from ProjectPM: "Project PM operates this wiki in order to provide a centralized, actionable data set regarding the intelligence contracting industry, the PR industry's interface with totalitarian regimes, the mushrooming infosec/"cybersecurity" industry, and other issues constituting threats to human rights, civic transparency, individual privacy, and the health of democratic institutions."
From Blue Cabinet: "The Telecomix Blue Cabinet is a working wiki project to document vendors and manufacturers of surveillance equipment that are used in dictatorships and democracies around the internets."
Stored within is a wealth of information of the US government and others hiring mercenaries to spy on children as an example of technical skill for a deal with private entity US Chamber of Commerce as retaliation against Wikileaks[7], amongst other things.
The data sources involved include the aforementioned BlueCoat leak as well as the HBGary leak[8]. The data being the excuse to prosecute Barrett Brown of ProjectPM[9]. So do be careful unless you like being on an absurd amount of lists.
Activity such as deploying exploits on an unknowable amount of users, hacking of dissidents, _the government itself referring private entities like US Chamber of Commerce/Bank of America to the same firms it uses for surveillance work, as to target journalists like Glenn Greenwald[7]_. Makes using wget to ex-filtrate files quicker seem downright saintly.
[1] http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Main_Page
[2] http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett...
[3] http://bluecabinet.info/wiki/Blue_cabinet
[4] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jul/07/telecomix-...
[5] https://en.rsf.org/syria-syria-using-34-blue-coat-servers-23...
[6] http://bluesmote.com/
[7] http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/02/11/143669/chamberle...
[8] https://thepiratebay.sx/search/hbgary/0/99/0
[9] http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/doj-issues-subpoe...