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August 10th, 2012

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From: Justin Ferguson

Date: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 6:22 AM

Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] {6221} Domain Awareness System

To: tscm-l2006@googlegroups.com

Cc: michael.maness@abraxasapps.com, dan.botsch@abraxasapps.com,

jeff.nielsen@abraxasapps.com

I’m not entirely sure how this is new so to speak, they’ve had this

capability for years from the ‘trapwire’ system (trapwire.com formerly

abraxas applications– a subdivision of intelligence contractor

abraxas and staffed almost exclusively by ex-CIA, see page 137 of

‘spies for hire’).

Per the stratfor email dump, the trapwire system contains

functionality like facial recognition and is installed at every HVT in

the continental US, in addition to Ottawa and Canada– but confirmed

in LA, NYC, NJ, DC, Las Vegas, et cetera. It’s essentially a system

setup to detect surveillance, so if you’ve ever taken a picture of

basically anything ‘important’ you probably flagged a ‘suspicious

activity report’ (SAR). It’s logged to a central database and then

cross-site reports are disseminated. If you’re familiar with the ‘see

something say something’ or ‘iWatch’ programs, that’s the public

reporting component, but in the email dumps when explaining similar

systems they note repeatedly that trapwire has the capability to walk

the cat back you just need a few pictures of the persons. From the

emails, what’s been enumerated specifically is NY/DC mass transit,

unspecified sections of LA, London Stock Exchange, Scotland Yard, #10

Downing, the White House. From googling, we can find that NJ transit,

all army bases, the department of energy, the marines, et cetera are

as well. No idea if they got the contract, but they were apparently

trying to get it into the Nigerian presidential palace as well.

It’s not just in public sector areas, it sounds like any big

corporation that wants in gets to link their CCTV/surveillance systems

into it as well– apparently salesforce.com, google, potentially Dell,

Wal-Mart, & Coca-cola, et cetera are all linked in.

Throughout the email dumps they repeatedly ask for non-attribution and

you have to google stalk quite a bit to really find much, but this

magazine has an article on it

Click to access CJI_Magazine_Archive_2006_11-12.pdf

and what’s been released of the stratfor emails contains a lot of

chatter about it and the parts that haven’t been released yet contain

quite a bit more.

I guess my biggest concern is that the parent company is the company

that at least used to develop NOC companies/persona’s for the agency,

several members of the executive board also sit on the ‘ntrepid

networks’ board– which produces the software to create online

persona’s/sock puppet accounts as part of Operation Earnest Voice for

DoD (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks),

that basically the entire executive staff and regular employee’s are

also ex-agency and I just refuse to believe that the CIA is passing up

such a golden opportunity to get into the surveillance feeds from

basically everywhere in the country (and all over London and Ottawa).

That doesn’t even include the tie in’s to DHS & their fusion centers,

the secret service accounts, etc etc. If you ask me, it sounds like

that system is the CIAs version of the Trailblazer project. We’ll have

to wait on FOIA requests to confirm that though. Another interesting

point is going to be that with foreign links, they (the CIA) have the

authority to spy on them, but I wonder how they keep clear of FISA &

their own charter/eo 12333/et cetera. I bet they dont.

I’ve been kind enough to CC several of the people behind trapwire in

case they have comments or want to further enlighten us, but I

wouldn’t hold my breath. Hopefully they make sure to thank Mr.

Burton’s big mouth for helping bring this to light.

Best Regards,

Justin N. Ferguson

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From: Justin Ferguson

To: tscm-l2006@googlegroups.com

Cc: michael.maness@abraxasapps.com, dan.botsch@abraxasapps.com,

jeff.nielsen@abraxasapps.com

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Ah, I forgot a couple details & had some typos; when I said “Ottawa

and Canada”, I meant Ottawa and London. I totally forget Austin, et

cetera.

Here’s a bunch of links to copy/pastes from stratfor emails detailing

a lot of what I had to say in the prior email. There’s like 10+ pages

of hits in the stratfor dumps, so it’s not all of it, just what I had

bookmarked while reading into it some.

Cheers.

http://privatepaste.com/c56f6848d2/trapwireCentralizedDatabaseMGMGrandLinke=

dSystemEtc

centralized database, vegas hotels, linked sites, etc

http://privatepaste.com/e5b7f4a21d/trapwireNYC – NYC circa 2010

http://privatepaste.com/a9bc9274ea/trapwireAustin – Austin

http://privatepaste.com/04eaef4343/trapwireEveryHVTUSCANUK – note the

last paragraph

http://privatepaste.com/90198aa545/trapwireTexasBorder – Texas border circa=

2009

http://privatepaste.com/568f0a512a/trapwireWalkTheCatBack – Talking

about images to analyze and walking the cat back

http://privatepaste.com/318e0e652b/trapwireHVTCitizens – Trapwire for

certain citizens that are important, but not USSS important

http://privatepaste.com/670091f5b0/trapwireLondonStockExchange –

London Stock Exchange

http://privatepaste.com/b62ceaf254/trapwireNYCDCVegasLondonOttawaLA –

NYC, DC, Vegas, London, Ottawa, LA

http://privatepaste.com/fba46e24ca/trapwireAustinDPSAllocated1Point8M

– 1.8M for trapwire & equipment from Austin DPS

http://privatepaste.com/caf299c230/trapwireOnDesksOfUSSSMI5LAPDRCMPNYPD

– trapwire on the desks of USSS CP, MI5, RCMP, LAPD CT, NYPD CT

http://privatepaste.com/5a71bac416/trapwireDCMetroNationalParkPoliceEtc

– trapwire DC metro, National Park Police, etc

http://privatepaste.com/e6031c14f6/trapwireLAPD – trapwire LAPD as a protot=

ype

http://privatepaste.com/febefa287f/trapwirePentagonArmyUSMCNavy –

trapwire Army, Pentagon, USMC, Navy

http://privatepaste.com/58a60bff35/trapwireNSIFBIFtMeadeSevenYears –

Trapwire 7 years circa 2011, National SAR Initiative (NSI), FBIs

eGuardian, Ft. Meade, etc

http://privatepaste.com/f7b7ac02ab/trapwireAmtrackDHSFusionCenters –

Amtrack, DHS fusion centers, DC Metro

http://privatepaste.com/7add918e4c/trapwireBehaviorPatternsToIdentifySurvei=

llance

– “TrapWire is a technology solution predicated upon behavior patterns

in red

zones to identify surveillance. It helps you connect the dots over

time and distance.

http://privatepaste.com/d503851f0c/trapwireSalesforceGoogleDHSInstitute

– salesforce, google, DHS institute

http://privatepaste.com/626712c0fa/trapwireNigerianPresidentialPalace

– Nigerian Presidential Palace

http://privatepaste.com/bf0a0abf67/trapwireScotlandYardDowningWhiteHouseWal=

MartDell

– Scotland Yard, 10 Downing St, White House, Wal-Mart, Dell

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More: Stratfor Emails Reveal Secret, Widespread TrapWire Surveillance System

Research Credit: luky