Yep, I wrote up the paragraphs they used on background, same info's being used for videos or whatnot. Great that we've got some good channels of folks moving on this with resarch, etc, am I'm trying to get one of these journos I work with to cover. Busy couple days.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Jay Leiderman <jay@leidermandevine.com> wrote:

Seen this?

Jay Leiderman

5740 Ralston Street #300

Ventura, California 93003

805-654-0200

jay@leidermandevine.com 

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Begin forwarded message:

From: "Anonymous Global" <AnonymousGlobal@riseup.net>
Date: August 12, 2012 8:39:33 PDT
To: PLF@riseup.net
Subject: Anonymous Operation TrapWire - Press Release
Reply-To: AnonymousGlobal@riseup.net

Anonymous Operation TrapWire - Press Release

Sunday - August 12, 2012 11:00 AM ET USA

Greetings Citizens of the United States of America --

This weekend, it was disclosed by WikiLeaks the details about a system
known as "TrapWire" that uses facial recognition and other techniques
including high-end artificial intelligence to track and monitor
individuals using countless different closed-circuit cameras operated by
cities and other institutions, including private businesses. This program
also monitors all social media on the internet. The software is billed as
a method by which to prevent terrorism, but can of course also be used to
provide unprecedented surveillance and data-mining capabilities to
governments and corporations - including many with a history of using new
technologies to violate the rights of citizens.  TrapWire is already used
in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Texas, DC, London, and other locales
around the USA.

The ex-CIA agents who help run the firm are old friends of Stratfor vice
president Fred Burton, whom they've briefed on their own capabilities in
e-mails obtained by Anonymous hackers and provided to WikiLeaks. Stratfor
has engaged in several surveillance operations against activists, such as
those advocating for victims of the Bhopal disaster - on behalf of large
U.S. corporatons; Burton himelf was revealed to have advocated
"bankrupting" and "ruining the life" of activists like Julian Assange in
e-mails to other friends. TrapWire is extremely expensive to maintain, and
is usually done so at taxpayer expense; Los Angeles county alone has spent
over $1.4 million dollars on the software's use in a single three-month
period of 2007.

Although most of the regions in which TrapWire operates don't share
information with each other, all of this is set to change; as Abraxas
Applications president Dan Botsch told Burton via e-mail, "I think over
time the different networks will begin to unite," noting that several
networks had already begun discussions on merging their information.
Abraxas itself has always had the ability to "cross-network matches" from
every region at their own office. By June 2011, Washington D.C. police
were engaged in a pilot project under the Departent of Homeland Security
that's likely to lead to more cities using TrapWire on a more integrated
basis.

Abraxas, the firm whose spin-off Abraxas Applications developed TrapWire
in 2007, has long been involved in a lesser-known practice known as
persona management, which involves the use of fake online "people" to
gather intelligence and/or disseminate disinformation. The firm Ntrepid,
created by Abraxas owner Cubic Corporation, won a 2010 CENTCOM contract to
provide such capabilities for use in foreign countries; several board
members of Ntrepid also sit on Abraxas.

The more we learn about TrapWire and similar systems, it becomes
absolutely clear that we must at all costs shut this system down and
render it useless. A giant AI electronic brain able to monitor us through
a combination of access to all the CCTV cameras as well as all the online
social media feeds is monstrous and Orwellian in it's implications and
possibilities. The Peoples Liberation Front and Anonymous will now put
forth a call to arms, and initiate the doom of this evil and misbegotten
program. We will use the following tactics to accomplish this goal:

1) The PLF and Anonymous will work closely with WikiLeaks and Project PM
to gather, collate, disclose and disseminate as much information as
possible about TrapWire and it's related technologies and programs. This
was begun this weekend, and already much has been learned. And they are
scared of this, already many sites and repositories of data on TrapWire
are disappearing - being taken down by those who do not want you to know
the truth about what they are doing. And WikiLeaks is at this writing
enduring a massive and historic DdoS attack in an attempt to conceal this
information from the public. We will do this not only to educate the
general public regarding TrapWire, but to move them to pressure their
representatives to shut down funding for this and similar programs of
massive surveillance, and to pass laws outlawing the creation of future
projects of this type.

2) ACTION ALERT - "Smash A Cam Saturday": TrapWire has access to virtually
all CCTV's that have IP/internet connectivity. We have prepared an initial
map/database of these cameras across the USA, and we will continue to
expand this knowledge base.

http://bit.ly/PcByYJ

While this database is a good guide to high priority camera targets, we
encourage everyone to target any camera with IP/internet connectivity. We
are asking everyone to sabotage at least one CCTV per week on what we are
calling "Smash A Cam Saturday". We have provided this excellent manual of
different tactics and strategies for disabling or destroying these "eyes
of the beast".

http://bit.ly/1Qjp

3) As stated above, this "monster" doesn't just have eyes that need
gouging out - it also has "ears". TrapWire constantly monitors social
media. In a strange twist of fate, the company that developed TrapWire
also works on something called "sock-puppet" programs. These are projects
designed to create thousands of fake personas on social media. We will
turn this idea and software against them, creating thousands of phony
accounts and use them to produce a deluge of false triggers for the
TrapWire program - essentially drowning it in "white noise".

4) Finally, the Peoples Liberation Front and Anonymous will do what we do
best. We will find, hack - and destroy the servers where the AI
"electronic brain" of this program is housed.

Operation TrapWire is a direct action of the over-arching Anonymous
Operation USA. TrapWire is but one instance of how the government of the
USA has turned against it's own citizens, designating them as suspects and
enemies. Now those citizens rise, and take back their country and their
freedom. Welcome to the Second American Revolution.

We Are Anonymous

We Are Legion

We Never Forgive

We Never Forget

Government of the USA, it's to late to EXPECT US.

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Op Graphic - http://www.flickr.com/photos/80569118@N06/7766122174

Press Release - http://bit.ly/OT3mNS

Additional Information - http://publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/

http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Cubic_Corporation#Abraxas.2FAnonymizer

Anonymous Global - www.AnonymousGlobal.tk

Peoples Liberation Front - www.PeoplesLiberationFront.net

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302