I've been researching the intelligence contracting industry over the past several months since the HBGary incident and together with my partners in Anonymous and Project PM have accumulated quite a bit of information that has been picked up by the press or otherwise received the attention it should; in large part, the media sort of moved on after discovering Team Themis even though there remains a great deal in the HBGary e-mails, which we've since supplemented with the e-mails acquired from another firm, Unveillance, which itself was in regular correspondence with several of the firms we're looking at. I've got a three-part series coming up in al-Jazeera that will begin by providing details of a classified surveillance program run by the military-intelligence community, one which would appear to be quite a bit beyond what's been seen before by virtue of combining a great number of sophisticated capabilities. Beyond what I'll be reporting on, there's a great deal left that we'd like to see receive some attention, which is why we've been compiling most of what we have on a wiki.
Take a look at what we've discovered regarding Endgame Systems, for instance: http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems. This is a major intelligence contractor that's doing unspecified work for the U.S. and at the same time has made clear in e-mails that they do not want public scrutiny. I was thinking of discussing it in the third part of my upcoming series but I would prefer to cover the industry as a whole in that one, so I'd like to see another journalist cover this so as to bring attention to the intelligence contracting industry and the dangerous accumulation of power over information combined with an almost total media blackout. These are the firms that are developing those capabilities that we've already seen being farmed out to U.S. Chamber and Bank of America; it's inevitable that this dynamic will lead to an even greater consolidation of power on the part of corpor