Here we go.... 5 parts (thanks again!)

 

1.    To me I think it’s one of the biggest dangers we’re facing in the 21^st century. The information being so fundamental to everything else, this practice of basically making it impossible to determine where information is actually coming from, and the contacts we’ve seen of what governments and companies are willing to do with information and operations... you can extrapolate from that... look what’s already been done, and now look what they’re working on and what they’re capable of, it can drive you sick.

 

2.     Fundamentally what we’re trying to do is minimise the effects of these capabilities, particularly of persona management on the public, and that entails first of all bring out info making the public aware that they exist.

 

3.     We’re going through their emails afterwards, and there are 70,000 of them all together that we have, you can see the mentality that you find in this industry. You never see them turning down any project or questioning whether or not there will be any side effects or repercussions for anything they’re developing and putting into practice. They’re not thinking about how things like persona management provided to corporations might be corrosive to use by those institutions. That doesn’t even come up in a conversation.

 

4.     These three companies have set about to provide mainly the same capabilities that they were providing to government, to a private corporation. And the exact proposal that was created for the bank of America involved attacks on Wikileaks’s infrastructure, it involved cyber attacks and information warfare. It was going to be extraordinarily damaging to the info flow in the US and elsewhere. You know the ability of private citizens to ensure that the information they’re getting is accurate, and to the extent that parties, such as the Bank of America or Government, had this capabilities, and are going to use them. They have a tremendous advantage, a really dishonest and dangerous advantage over not just their competitors but private citizens.

 

5.     The real problem here is that first of all these things can’t be detected without knowing that they exist. The majority of people are unaware of this issue, even though we have documentation and couple of news orgs have reported it. You have capabilities that are increasing in stature without the public at the same time following what’s possible. That’s a serious problem, in so much as if you go around saying look there’s persona management with all these fake personas, the average person thinks that sounds whacky.

 

 

 

 

No problem, I can do that tomorrow afternoon (my time) if need be, at any time after 3:00 pm Central Standard Time, U.S. The number is 214-520-9186. I might want to add a few more quick statements to the interview if there's any chance of them being used at this point; otherwise, we'll just redo my previous statements as planned.

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302