WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network - Polidicks

[quote] [img]http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4de67953cadcbbf07b0a0000-400-/surveillance.jpg[/img] 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 someone out there seems 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, according to Tangerine Bolen's piece in the Guardian: "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."[/quote] [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8[/url] [url]https://twitter.com/wikileaks[/url] [url]http://wlcentral.org/node/2759[/url] It's funny how there isn't single American TV station broadcasting about this. If it's 10GB DDOS, it's probably CIA.

oh god

It's like that TV series, but only real oh god.

Lol article cites RT and attempts to justify it

Land of the free.

[QUOTE=Medevilae;37203781]This is from a blog, then reposted on BI. I see nothing on the Wikileaks site, better source please?[/QUOTE] [url]https://twitter.com/wikileaks[/url] [url]http://wlcentral.org/node/2759[/url]

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;37203797]Lol article cites RT and attempts to justify it[/QUOTE] [url]https://www.google.rs/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=Trapwire&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest[/url]

it's almost as if the wikileaks website is being ddos'd

Nobody is safe. A bit extreme, don't you think?

[QUOTE=the-dutch-guy;37203807]Land of the free.[/QUOTE] "lol land of teh free take dat 'murrka!!1 xD"

[QUOTE=Medevilae;37203859][url]http://www.trapwire.com/trapwire.html[/url] creepy[/QUOTE] Wow, that's so well-crafted that you wouldn't think it's the government.

[QUOTE=Morris Vander;37203861]"lol land of teh free take dat 'murrka!!1 xD"[/QUOTE] I was just pointing out this doesn't exactly fit that image.

Holy shit, anyone seen the movie Eagle Eye?

Wasn't it stated in the [URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1204728"]other thread[/URL] that said 'spy network' on only at monuments and other high risk areas?

I'd suggest a riot but knowing Americans your riots suck, England does the best riots and so does Australia.

If it's not in my house why should I care? This helps officers act upon any potential threats quicker.

I see no problem with this

First off, this is incredibly late and they site Russia Today. Second off, it's sensationalist as fuck. The previous thread has enough content explaining how this system is nothing more than a normal security network that ties a face to a piece of code and then stores it. The cameras are only in public, high-risk locations like The Pentagon and Sears Tower and there is no invasion of privacy. [editline]12th August 2012[/editline] Also, releasing the information ruined chances of catching a terrorist group in LA. This information doesn't help anyone by being released and just ruins the progress made.

[QUOTE]TrapWire is a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns indicative of terrorist attacks or criminal operations.[/QUOTE] well yeah predictive stuff gives me a bad feeling but the infrastructure part is really nothing to be worried about you know just don't commit crimes

Some leaked emails. [code]From: "Aaron C. Pigeon" Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:35:31 -0500 To: Fred Burton Subject: Re: More for the blog posted http://fredburton.posterous.com/new-surveillance-tool-for-interrupting-terror On 9/22/10 1:47 PM, Fred Burton wrote: This week, 500 surveillance cameras were activated on the NYC subway system to focus on pre-operational terrorist surveillance. The surveillance technology is also operational on high-value targets (HVTs) in DC, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and London and is called TrapWire (www.abraxasapps.com). TrapWire is one of the most innovative tools developed since 9-11 to help mitigate terrorist threats. From a protective intelligence perspective, TrapWire does have the ability to share information on suspicious events or suspects between cities. Operationally, the ability to identify hostile surveillance at one target set -- in multiple cities -- can be used to neutralize terror threats by interrupting the attack cycle. Meaning, a suspect conducting surveillance of the NYC subway can also be spotted by TrapWire conducting similar activity at the DC subway, connecting the infamous dots. An additional benefit of TrapWire is that the system can also be used to help "walk back the cat" after an attack to identify terrorist suspects and modus operandi. I can also see the tool being very effective in identifying general street crime.[/code] [code]The surveillance detection was identified by the TrapWire surveillance system. I'm getting the details on the recons and m.o. The matter is very dicey. Pls don't pass this around. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Fred Burton [mailto:burton@stratfor.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 8:33 PM To: secure@stratfor.com Subject: LA Terror Plot (not for pub - pls do not forward) According to a very good source responsible for domestic surveillance operations, an extremely serious al Qaeda terror plot has been uncovered targeting a financial institution, an entertainment center and a government office bldg in Los Angeles. The same terrorist surveillance team conducted pre-operational surveillance of all three sites. The group is currently under watch....[/code] This is why releasing the information is pointless and the whole system isn't invasive at all.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;37203949]I'd suggest a riot but knowing Americans your riots suck, England does the best riots and so does Australia.[/QUOTE] Yeah, widespread violence and vandalism of private homes and businesses is a GREAT way to show the government they need to change, not like it doesn't hurt the people or anything. Moron.

[QUOTE=Medevilae;37203965]why[/QUOTE] If you guys are really pissed off about how the government fucks you over, nobodies going to listen to people holding signs and just camping. I'm sorry if that maybe a slight bit of dumb but all I've heard is just people sitting, complaining and not doing anything productive. If you truly wanted something you'd riot.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;37204027]If you guys are really pissed off about how the government fucks you over, nobodies going to listen to people holding signs and just camping. I'm sorry if that maybe a slight bit of dumb but all I've heard is just people sitting, complaining and not doing anything productive. If you truly wanted something you'd riot.[/QUOTE] Why not, instead of being a trigger happy idiot, you tell me what exactly the government is doing wrong here? What right are they taking away from you? Also, "right to privacy in a public location" isn't a real right. [editline]12th August 2012[/editline] All it is is a normal security camera network that works with a central database rather than in a closed circuit.

[QUOTE=draugur;37204012]Yeah, widespread violence and vandalism of private homes and businesses is a GREAT way to show the government they need to change, not like it doesn't hurt the people or anything.Moron.[/QUOTE] when people get angry about something, like full blown anal pained about something they'll riot and the only way to stop them is to force it. Besides corporations aren't listening I'm starting to think this is a loss cause.

[QUOTE=Medevilae;37204107]Where you from? Flagdog says US[/QUOTE] Australia, I was going to ask OverV to slip me in as an Australian since I never linked my steam account.

[QUOTE=latin_geek;37203993]well yeah predictive stuff gives me a bad feeling but the infrastructure part is really nothing to be worried about you know just don't commit crimes[/QUOTE] That's kinda the thing; most of the time it's just anxiety when one isn't really "under threat", but my paranoid mind makes me feel like certain things would be misinterpreted; in other words i'm anxious about how paranoid the surveillance guys are, concerning whether or not they're quick to misjudge mixed signals and act on a hair-trigger.

Can someone explain to me how this network is bad?

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;37204027]If you guys are really pissed off about how the government fucks you over, nobodies going to listen to people holding signs and just camping. I'm sorry if that maybe a slight bit of dumb but all I've heard is just people sitting, complaining and not doing anything productive. If you truly wanted something you'd riot.[/QUOTE] Prague spring THE ENTIRE FUCKING END OF THE COLD WAR You remember these things?! [editline]12th August 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=fruxodaily;37204100]when people get angry about something, like full blown anal pained about something they'll riot and the only way to stop them is to force it. Besides corporations aren't listening I'm starting to think this is a loss cause.[/QUOTE] The corporations do not control the government. Get off your conspiracy wagon and look at the facts.

[QUOTE=latin_geek;37203963]I see no problem with this[/QUOTE] The problem isn't this exactly but it's the fact that where will it end? if this is the start of something how far would the government agencies be willing to go to get what they want i think they've made it pretty clear they couldn't give a two bit shit about peoples privacy.

There was occupy Brisbane protest but it was stupid as fuck, we get it easy, we have good jobs, good income and have a good life, I was wondering why they wanted to even start to Occupy Australia, there's nothing wrong with us, just a bunch of hipsters jumping on the bandwagon. I'd join in if I could be fucked catching a train to Central to tell them how retarded it was but I didn't, go off do your own thing I just don't think it's working. I'm sorry.