Howdy, Ryan-

Hope all is well. Read your Trapwire piece and thought it was valid
criticism of at least some of the takes/levels of concern over the
whole thing.

 I and several friends have been unusually energetic in looking
through info on Trapwire, Abraxas, Cubic, and other Cubic subsidiaries
and their relationships, the last three of which we have a limited but
telling body of research on, going back to when we first dug into them
on persona management involvement in march 2011. Besides that, I've
collected several other docs, including tax and merger filings, that
illustrate the extent of Cubic's involvement with their other
subsidiaries (admittedly going on a small sample, only have info on
three of dozens of the damn things - one of the most interesting of
which they created out of Abraxas itself, incidentally, just 2-3 years
back, to win CENTCOM/USAF persona management contract. Anyway, you're
one of about three people I go to these days on things I think are
most important, so would like you to read this partly silly thing I
wrote last night, in part because it draws on several new or just
obscure facts that I think color this incident, especially in light of
the initially unexplained (and now poorly explained) disappearance of
an article syndicated in at least six or seven Australian outlets
including Sydney Herald a day after it appeared, apparently due to
some nature of legal threat or objection from the very powerful and
well-connected consortium that, among other things, has deep ties to
Australia's defense sector and increasingly civilian security (which
figures into why Cubic was so inclined to act, I suspect).

Thanks and cheers.
http://barrettbrown.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-facts-on-cubic-and-trapwire-abraxas.html

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Great to hear, let me know when the piece is cleared. All's well here,
working on a couple of interesting projects that may help move things
forward with the general info campaign on cyber and also did this
Bloomberg/Businessweek panel on the subject:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-02/how-the-experts-would-fix-cyber-security

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Ryan Gallagher
<ryan.gallagher@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi Barrett,

Just wanted to let you know the long-delayed Raytheon thing is in motion. I
re-wrote the piece for a UK publication. No idea what we are looking at
timescale wise, as I've still got to deal with editors and lawyers, etc. But
anyway, I just thought I should send an update and let you know I've not
forgotten about this and it's high on my agenda. Will send more news when I
have it, which will hopefully be sooner rather than later.

Hope all's well at your end.

Best,

Ryan

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302