Re: persona management
Subject: Re: persona management
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 8/19/11, 16:12
To: "Isikoff, Michael (NBCUniversal)" <Michael.Isikoff@nbcuni.com>

Yes, CENTCOM admitted to their use after it was discovered in February that the USAF had put out a call for bids on persona management software. Info on all of that may be found here:

http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice 

We also have e-mails showing that several other firms are developing those capabilities - one of which, Mantech, was planning on offering Aaron Barr a job under a new subsidiary created for the purpose. Incidentally, Antisec released a number of documents on Mantech that were seized from the larger hack on NATO a few weeks ago. Here's a good summary of what else is known on persona management, including links to a 2007 patent by IBM with four U.S. military men listed as inventors:

http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Persona_Management

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Isikoff, Michael (NBCUniversal) <Michael.Isikoff@nbcuni.com> wrote:
Barrett-- that is pretty interesting. Can we establish that the government actually has a "persona management" operating going (as opposed to HB Gary trying to market it)? 
i love the example, tho-- and would want ot know if the original Maxim girl-- Holly webber =- even knew that HB Gary was using her image.
  

From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:26 PM
To: Isikoff, Michael (NBCUniversal)
Subject: persona management

Michael-

If you're inclined to do a piece on persona management and the like, let me know; we have a great deal of material on the subject and there's a new hook available as HBGary, the firm Anonymous hack, has been discovered to have deployed a fake intelligence contractor employee on Facebook and Twitter: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/18/298081/hbgary-federal-us-chamber-persona/

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302



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Regards,

Barrett Brown
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