Operation Metal
Gear
This
operation stems from a string of leaked HBGary emails wherein a company by the
name of Booz Allen Hamilton, in direct contact with Aaron Barr, is believed to
have bid on and successfully won the contract to develop an unnamed software
from the US Air Force. This software will be known as "Metal Gear" for
informational purposes.
We
believe that Metal Gear involves an army of fake cyber personalities immersed
in social networking websites for the purposes of manipulating the mass
population via influence, crawling information from major online communities
(such as Facebook), and identifying anonymous personalities via correlating
stored information from multiple sources to establish connections between
separate online accounts, using this information to arrest dissidents and
activists who work anonymously.
The
primary goal of this operation is to find out exactly what metal
gear is and why they are developing it.
What
is 'Metal Gear'
?
We
codenamed the software that we believe Booz Allen Hamilton and some of their
partners are working on.
The
nature of the software is partially known, from the documents that we have
seen and from what some employees have said it is a software that
would allow a single agent to command an 'army' of sockpuppet accounts on
social networking mediums. It is sophisticated enough to develop a
'profile' for each puppet to add a level of 'realism' to each. In short, there
would be no fesiable way to distinguish between 100 people commenting on a
subject, and 100 of these puppets doing the same.
This
is nothing new for those of us familiar with how the net works. However,
given recent events across the world, the idea behind Metal Gear seems to be
'weaponizing' sockpuppets, in order to influence the face of revolutions that
are based within social networking sites.
Audio recording of our
announcement (16th of March 2011)
IBM Patent
Airforce
contract
The Patent:
Inventors:
Li Chen
(Documentation
Needed)
Yongcheng Li
(Documentation
Needed)
Govndaraj
Sampathkumar
IBM Corporation 3901 S. Miami
Blvd
Durham, NC 27703-9315,
USA
Ryan
Urquhart
(Documentation
Needed)
Agent:
HOLMAN IP LAW / IBM
RSW
(This
is the profile for Holman IP Law. It is no longer active.)
(These
are profiles of Jeff Holman, formerly of Holman IP law, now with a firm called
WH&H. Same person.)
(IBM
RSW is believed to be an IBM office near the SW Regional Airport in
Florida.)
4037
Del Prado Boulevard South, Cape Coral, FL
Patent application
number:
20090313274
ALSO WORTH LOOKING
INTO;
Meeting/training class
between NSA, USAF, HBGary, Booz Allen & other various sec
companies
Note:
Why are the exact same companies that are intrested in Metal Gear have a
seminar about a malware analyzing software?
The purpose of the meeting/thing
was to school them in Responder Pro
Phil Wallisch was the
instructor..
Dox of guys in the
meeting
Parties
involved;
NSA
IBM
USAF
HBGary
Booz Allen Hamilton
Here's the list of folks who
will be attending 'class':
Protip:
call these people, ask them about Metal Gear, ask them about the air force,
NSA, USAF, Aaron Barr. Get them worried, get them talking.
DEPARTMENT OF FUCKING HOMELAND
SECURITY
<- whitepages say 3 or less
with this name, it may also be Kesook, misspelt on purpose?
Have written book about
:
H.323 Attack And IAX
Attacks
Txt msg attacks
> Scott K. Brown
> Technical
Director
> NSA Blue Team
Patrick Upatham
Security Solutions
Manager
Verdasys, Inc.
David Black
Engagement Manager
Emergency Response
Service
IBM Security
Services
Kansas City, Missouri
USA
> Tim Sherald
> Computer
Scientist
> DISA FSO - IRRT
(FS42)
> DSN:
570-9370
John Laliberte
NSA
AAPC G-PPE Task Force Members
<----
Eric Potter brought us to that
link <- check it out