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</div><div>TRAPWIRE: SPYING ON YOU. PREDICTING YOUR MOVES.“Hacked emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor shed light on a global suspicious activity surveillance system called TrapWire that is reportedly in use in locations around the world from the London Stock Exchange to the White House. The emails [released by WikiLeaks] provide information on the extent and operations of a system designed to correlate suspicious activity reports and other evidence that may indicate [a potential crime or terrorist attack].”<a href="https://publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://publicintelligence.net/unravelling-trapwire/</a>A TrapWire white paper describes their offering as “a unique, predictive software system designed to detect patterns of pre-attack surveillance. As such, TrapWire represents the basis for a paradigm shift in the methodologies traditionally applied to securing critical infrastructure and personnel; a paradigm shift from the currently accepted and widely adopted philosophy of damage mitigation through increased physical security to a new and proactive approach of attack prevention through the identification and disruption of pre-attack planning and surveillance activities.”<a href="http://www.cicc.org/pdf/TRAPWIRE_Whitepaper_generic.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.cicc.org/pdf/TRAPWIRE_Whitepaper_generic.pdf</a>In other words, TrapWire is for all intents and purposes an Orwellian thoughtcrime detection system. As their website explains, “TrapWire detects, analyzes and alerts on suspicious events as they are collected over periods of time and across multiple locations. Through the systematic capture of these pre-attack indicators, terrorist or criminal surveillance and pre-attack planning operations can be identified… There are currently three different TrapWire systems available for public and private sector clients:<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; list-style-position: inside;">TW-CI (TrapWire Critical Infrastructure) focuses on the identification of pre-operational surveillance activities occurring around specific sites within the TrapWire Network</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; list-style-position: inside;">TW-CM (TrapWire Community Member) supports the online reporting of suspicious behavior by community members, such as the iWatch programs in Los Angeles and Washington DC, and See Something Say Something in Las Vegas and New York</li?</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; list-style-position: inside;">TW-LE (TrapWire Law Enforcement) provides the ability to gather, analyze and disseminate information about surveillance and logistical activities occurring across an entire geographic region, including information gathered via TW CI and TW CM deployments”</li></ul><a href="http://www.trapwire.com/trapwire.html" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.trapwire.com/trapwire.html</a>TrapWire Inc. is a subsidiary of Abraxas Corporation, which founder and CEO Richard Hollis Holms claims to be the “largest aggregate of analytical counter-terrorism capabilities outside of the U.S. Government.” A former (?) company man himself, Helms may be implying here that only the CIA has more CIA operatives on the payroll than he does. TrapWire is no exception, as former (?) CIA operatives on staff there include among others:<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; list-style-position: inside;">Robert Daniel Botsch, President</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; list-style-position: inside;">Michael Thomas Maness, Director of Business Development</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; list-style-position: inside;">Michael K. Chang, Director of Operations</li></ul>TrapWire took down their Who We Are and Management web pages after the Wikileaks disclosures gave them apparently unwanted public attention, but here are some screenshots and supplementary information:<a href="https://p.twimg.com/Az85ovNCQAEl3MS.jpg" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://p.twimg.com/Az85ovNCQAEl3MS.jpg</a><a href="https://p.twimg.com/Az8572iCIAA5A_3.jpg" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://p.twimg.com/Az8572iCIAA5A_3.jpg</a><a href="https://p.twimg.com/Az86KebCEAA3J3K.jpg" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://p.twimg.com/Az86KebCEAA3J3K.jpg</a><a href="http://pastebin.com/7AxWEHJ5" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://pastebin.com/7AxWEHJ5</a><a href="http://www.nvtc.org/tec/RichardHelms.php" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.nvtc.org/tec/RichardHelms.php</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://trapwire.com/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://trapwire.com/</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.abraxascorp.com/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.abraxascorp.com/</a>Speaking of being taken down, Wikileaks suffered a major DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack shortly after the TrapWire releases were posted. According to one observer:‘Now we have something new a group called AntiLeaks has popped up and managed to drop a 10GB/s + DDoS attack on WikiLeaks, their affiliate sites and mirrors. This is something pretty spectacular when you think about it. The group claims to be a group of “young adults, citizens of the United States of America and are deeply concerned about the recent developments with Julian Assange and his attempt at asylum in Ecuador”, but their tactics and capabilities seems to indicate something more is going on here… Some of the emails leaked indicate that Trapwire has extended beyond its original scope of threat prediction and mitigation into more intrusive areas. This is the type of information that Stratfor, the US Government and of course Abraxas would not want to be public. Some of the data the system is collecting could actually be in violation of privacy laws (as well as potentially violating a few other surveillance laws). You can imagine that with the connection to Stratfor and the US Government Abraxas has there would be some high-level interest in keeping these emails from the public eye. Again this would seem to put the attacks outside the realm of “young adults” and more into the state or corporate sponsored arena.’<a href="http://tinyurl.com/9zs27ds" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://tinyurl.com/9zs27ds</a>I agree. I think Ben Doernberg would as well:<a href="http://storify.com/bendoernberg/test-post/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://storify.com/bendoernberg/test-post/</a>TrapWire and/or “unknown parties” may have taken down Wikileaks in reaction to Julian Assange’s fearless and peerless team shedding the light of Truth on their dark activities, but sadly what they DIDN’T take down is the “TrapWire ThoughtCrime Detection Network” itself. If you work for one of fascist Amerika’s 16 national security bureaucracies or their myriad “intelligence contractors”, or if you’re one of the thousands of LEOs and collaborators participating in the DHS National Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) – or “Nasi” for short – you’re probably logging in right now:<a href="https://trapwire.net/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://trapwire.net/</a>)(NATIONWIDE SAR INITIATIVE<a href="http://nsi.ncirc.gov/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://nsi.ncirc.gov/</a>SAR LIST BY STATE<a href="http://amerikanreich.com/sar-list/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://amerikanreich.com/sar-list/</a>)(VVVPR.com ( <a href="http://veritasvirtualvengeance.com/" title="Guerrilla Activism | Guerrilla Marketing" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://veritasvirtualvengeance.com</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/vvvpr" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">@VVVPR</a> )Related Image 0: <a href="http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire.gif" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire.gif</a>Related Image 1: <a href="http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire-1.jpg" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire-1.jpg</a>Related Image 2: <a href="http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire-2.jpg" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire-2.jpg</a>Related Image 3: <a href="http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire-3.jpg" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire-3.jpg</a>Related Image 4: <a href="http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire-4.jpg" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://veritasvirtualvengeance.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/trapwire-4.jpg</a>Related Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72-oYXjuOao" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72-oYXjuOao</a>Tag: #trapwire, #abraxas, #stratfor, #cia, #bigbrother, #policestate, #surveillance, #sheeple, #corruption, #greed, #fascism, #fascists, #kleptocracy, #wikileaks, #anonymous, #ows, #revolutionKey: trapwire, abraxas, stratfor, cia, big brother, police state, surveillance, sheeple, political corruption, corporate greed, fascism, fascists, kleptocracy, wikileaks, anonymous, ows, revolution, Richard H. Helms, Richard Hollis Helms, Dan Botsch, Robert Daniel Botsch, Michael Maness, Michael Thomas Maness, Michael K. Chang, Paul Chadha, John J. Reis, John Jack Reis, Daniel V. Johnson, Stephen B. Coffman, Ted CrockerOriginal Post: <a href="http://wp.me/p24X30-eO" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://wp.me/p24X30-eO</a></div><div>
<div>fluff</div><div>Not to be confused with the other Richard Helms (who headed the CIA under Nixon), “Hollis” Helms was with the CIA for nearly 30 years until October 1999, including 12 years overseas in several postings in the Mideast and South Asia. He was also one of the original assignees to its Counter Terrorism Center in the mid-1980s. He started Abraxas Corp. four years ago. Headquartered in McLean, it now has 225 employees. Helms has a BA and MA (in national security policy) from American University. Bisnow on Business: This is some retirement – you left the government and became an entrepreneur. How did you get into this business? After retirement I worked for a small company for a year before it was sold to a very large firm. Six of my coworkers at the time sat around my kitchen table discussing whether we should or could start something on our own. One of them brought a spreadsheet, something new to me at the time, which showed reasons for not going into business, the cost of doing business, and how cash flow needs were excessive. Everyone immediately pushed back from the table but me, and declined to go forward. I went forward with a $5,000 investment. Then after 9/11, my former colleagues were being called in by big defense contractors to help defend the country. Most contractors did not understand the uniqueness of the problems, nor the potential these people represented. So I seized the moment, because I could identify extraordinary people who were available and was able to offer them what the big companies could not: ownership. From that kernel we have developed a number of technology solutions for the security and defense problems of today.So what does Abraxas do exactly? We have the largest aggregate of analytical counter-terrorism capabilities, outside of the U.S. Government, and are foremost among competitors in intelligence experience. We offer data collection and analytical skills, fraud investigation and containment, domestic and international due diligence, competitive market intelligence, new market entry, with an emphasis on China, political, economic and security assessment, behavioral analysis and deception detection services. We give clients a competitive advantage by providing them with better information, enabling them to make stronger and more informed decisions. With offices in both the U.S. and China, we can serve clients effectively and efficiently across the globe.Who would use you for what? The vast majority of our clients are big or small companies dealing with different cultures where they don’t have skills in-house to understand overseas risks. They may have a lot at stake dealing with a foreign company, for example, that’s investing in them or manufacturing something for them, and they want to have a Plan B in case that company has labor or governmental difficulties. We advise them. At one point, we calculated that our employees have over 3,000 years of experience in foreign intelligence.What’s the deliverable? A thick black briefing book? We have done that kind of advice and due diligence for clients, but sometimes it’s as simple as, “Can you participate in this meeting with us, could you bring in one of your experts for the Q & A?”Choosing to put your own money up first is a risk. How did you determine that was the right course of action versus seeking outside investors? No one in his or her right mind would give you money without you already having something at risk. You need to determine - fairly accurately - what it takes to get started and reach profitability. I think the more money you have to start a business, the more money you will spend and the less efficient you will be, and having more money may delay profitability. I say start with using your own money and plan on using as little as possible. While there are people who will invest, if you do not have an investment yourself, you are taking on partners, which means time away from managing and developing your business. The more you spend getting it going, the longer it will take to be profitable.So you don’t believe that early money is like yeast? Not in my experience. The ability to execute the plan is the most important aspect of a successful startup. If you cannot execute the idea, it is useless. The Wrights could not execute much beyond their first flights - other aeronauts accomplished much more. Curtiss Aircraft, the company started by Glenn Curtiss, eventually purchased the Wrights’ company and the new company became known as the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Company, not the Wright-Curtis Aircraft Company. Even though the Wrights bitterly used patent lawsuits against Curtiss, he flew rings around them as an inventor and an entrepreneur. Curtiss was building motorcycles when the Wrights first flew. He, in my view, was one of the real entrepreneurs in American aviation.You really draw from the early entrepreneurial spirit of aviation.  There was an incredible amount of entrepreneurship involved among the early developers of powered, fixed winged aircraft. The Wright brothers were the first, but they ran out to file their patents to protect their work and reap their rewards. It is remarkable where they were not able to take their invention. While they used every piece of information they could lay their hands on to systematically solve the problem of the first flight, they gave little thought beyond the event and their patents. Meanwhile, an explosion of development work took place in Europe where U.S. patents were not feared and a free exchange of information was taking place. There were numerous inventions that resulted in flight safer than in a Wright airplane.You have a product with an intriguing name: TrapWire. What is it? It’s a proprietary technology designed to protect critical national infrastructure from a terrorist attack by detecting the pre-attack activities of the terrorist and enabling law enforcement to investigate and engage the terrorist long before an attack is executed. The beauty of it is that we can protect an infinite number of facilities just as efficiently as we can one and we push information out to local law authorities automatically.Is TrapWire a service or a product, or what does it look like exactly? It’s a software application we’ve developed over the last two years. It runs on a server and is used across whole industries. For example, the nuclear industry has 104 civilian owned and operated nuclear power plants, and yet they don’t collect or share pre-attack information. TrapWire can help do that without infringing anyone’s civil liberties. It can collect information about people and vehicles that is more accurate than facial recognition, draw patterns, and do threat assessments of areas that may be under observation from terrorists. The application can do things like “type” individuals so if people say “medium build,” you know exactly what that means from that observer.</div><div>
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</div><div>TrapWire's Alleged Corporate and Government Connections Grow  Tuesday, 28 August 2012 - Written by  Joe Wolverton, II As TrapWire searches out and scrubs all references in the mainstream media to its global surveillance system, new connections between it and other tracking technologies are being uncovered. Tartan is software designed by Ntrepid Corporation that “exposes and quantifies key influencers and hidden connections in social networks using mathematical algorithms for objective, un-biased output. Our analysts, mathematicians and computer scientists are continually exploring new quantification, mining and visualization techniques in order to better analyze social networks.” According to RT, Tartan “aims to track down alleged anarchists by specifically singling out Occupy Wall Street protesters and the publicly funded media — all with the aid of federal agents.” The Tartan website proudly admits this use of its technology. “Tartan was used to reveal a hidden network of relationships among anarchist leaders of seemingly unrelated movements,” the website reads. “The study exposed the affiliations within this network that facilitate the viral spread of violent and illegal tactics to the broader protest movement in the United States.” As The New American recently reported, TrapWire is a massive and technologically advanced surveillance system that has the capacity to keep nearly the entire population of this country under the watchful eye of government 24 hours a day. Using this network of cameras and other surveillance tools, the federal government is rapidly constructing an impenetrable, inescapable theater of surveillance, most of which is going unnoticed by Americans and unreported by the mainstream media. Unlike other elements of the central government’s cybersurveillance program, word about TrapWire was not leaked by Obama administration insiders. The details of this nearly unbelievable surveillance scheme were made public by WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group founded by Julian Assange. The TrapWire story percolated from the millions of e-mails from the Austin, Texas-based private intelligence-gathering firm Stratfor, published this year by WikiLeaks. Covering correspondence from mid-2004 to 2011, these documents expose Stratfor’s “web of informers, pay-off structure, payment-laundering techniques and psychological methods.” This coterie of Stratfor co-conspirators are apparently angry about the leaks, considering that the WikiLeaks servers have been under near-constant Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks since the TrapWire revelations began attracting notice of alternative journalists. Some outlets report that the cyberattacks are being carried out by agents of the American intelligence community determined to prevent the full depth of this scandal from being explored by reporters. Exactly what is TrapWire? According to one description of the program, from Russia Today: Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology — and have installed it across the US under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous. Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. Although many of the details remain undisclosed, it is known that the infrastructure of TrapWire was designed and deployed by Abraxas, an intelligence contractor based in Northern Virginia headed and run by dozens of former American surveillance officers. As one article described it: “The employee roster at Abraxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented." Just how expansive is the TrapWire network believed to be? An article published by transparency advocacy group Public Intelligence claims that Stratfor e-mails suggest that TrapWire is in use by the U.S. Secret Service, the British security service MI5, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as well as counterterrorism divisions in both the Los Angeles and New York Police Department and the LA fusion center. The e-mails also suggest that TrapWire is in use at military bases around the country. A July 2011 email from a "Burton" to others at Stratfor describes how the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, and Pentagon have all begun using TrapWire and are "on the system now." Burton described the Navy as the "next on the list." One e-mail in a set stolen from global intelligence firm Stratfor by hactivists Anonymous and leaked via WikiLeaks states: We have an agreement in principle with Abraxas [TrapWire] to provide "streaming sitreps" to their clients via their desktop/homepage by the end of July. Their clients include Scotland Yard, #10 Downing, the White House, and many MNC's [multinational corporations]. In what is likely an uncomfortable discovery for the company behind TrapWire, several common board members link TrapWire to Tartan. First, Margaret A. Lee is listed as secretary of the board of directors of Ntrepid. Also on the board are Director Richard Helms, CFO Wesley R, Husted, and President Michael Martinka. Compare this information with the Commonwealth of Virginia’s State Corporation Commission website where Margaret A. Lee registered a company named TrapWire Inc. on March 7, 2009. Other business databases available on the Web reveal that in the past, Wesley Husted served as the CFO of TrapWire, Inc. and a Richard H. Helms was the CEO. RT reports that Helms is a former CIA agent “that once ran the agency’s European division.” The same article claims that Helms has since “severed ties with TrapWire,” but the other significant links between TrapWire and Tartan developer Ntrepid are unchanged. All three of these individuals are also named in documents filed by Ntrepid with the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations. Recently, however, in a comment to Project PM’s Barrett Brown, Cubic Corp. Communication Director Tim Hall repeats his company’s denial of the relationship. “There is no connection at all with Abraxas Applications and Trapwire and or Ntrepid,” Hall reportedly said in an audio file posted to YouTube. Project PM counters by claiming to have a copy of Cubic’s 2010 tax returns where Ntrepid and Abraxas are listed as being companies “wholly owned” by Cubic. For its part, Cubic Corporation denies being involved in anything related to TrapWire. In a press release Cubic stated, “Abraxas Corporation then and now has no affiliation with Abraxas Applications now known as Trapwire, Inc.” That claim doesn’t square with the information revealed in a story covering the latest in the ongoing TrapWire revelations: According to a 2007 report in the Washington Business Journal, though, that as well is a full-on fib. "Abraxas Corp., a risk-mitigation technology company, has spun out a software business to focus on selling a new product," the article reads. "The spinoff — called Abraxas Applications — will sell TrapWire, which predicts attacks on critical infrastructure by analyzing security reports and video surveillance." It is unclear how or if Cubic Corporation will explain this apparent discrepancy. While all this corporate intermingling is certainly suspicious, especially in light of the adamant denials of such on the part of the companies allegedly involved, an important question remains: What ties these two surveillance schemes to the government of the United States? Several organizations and individuals are digging deeper into the corporate connection between TrapWire and Tartan and how these twin terrors might be implemented by U.S. intelligence. The British newspaper Guardian reported last year that Ntrepid was working on an “online personal management” tool useful in the influence of “regional and international audiences to achieve U.S. Central Command strategic objectives.” Additionally, the Guardian’s research uncovered a $2.76-million contract awarded by U.S. Central Command to Ntrepid Corporation. The money was earmarked, the Guardian reports, for the creation of “false online personalities” that would drum up support for the American foreign policy overseas. The Guardian writes that Centcom would accomplish this goal by enabling: US service personnel, working around the clock in one location, to respond to emerging online conversations with any number of co-ordinated messages, blogposts, chatroom posts and other interventions. Details of the contract suggest this location would be MacDill air force base near Tampa, Florida, home of US Special Operations Command. All this should be done, the story continues, without revealing the wizards behind the cyber curtain. Interestingly, RT claims that this identity-guarding gambit was supported by a timely software purchase by Cubic Corporation — the company that created TrapWire. The article alleges that through a corporate buyout, Cubic Corporation gained control of “an online identity masking tool called Anonymyzer.” Despite the apparent similarities between Centcom’s project and Anonymyzer, there is nothing proving a connection between them. <a href="http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=6pala9hnf43dm2d2submp2hud0&/index.php?action=seored;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthenewamerican.com%2Ftech%2Fitem%2F12635-trapwires-alleged-corporate-and-government-connections-grow" rel="nofollow" class="bbc_link new_win" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(168, 182, 207); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://thenewamerican.com/tech/item/12635-trapwires-alleged-corporate-and-government-connections-grow</a> </div><div>=</div><div>https://www.dailydot.com/news/anonymous-trapwire-dox/</div><div>
</div><div>Sprawling surveillance and intel system TrapWire has previously drawn the wrath of hacktivists, WikiLeaks supporters, and Anonymous for its omniscience and seemingly omnipotent mission: to track everyone, everywhere in public and analyze them moment by moment to decide whether or not they constitute a threat.</div><div>
</div><div>Now, Anonymous has struck back.</div><div>
</div><div>They doxed—i.e. released personal information for—Richard Hollis Helms, CEO of TrapWire and its corporate parent Abraxas.</div><div>
</div><div>Speaking of parentage, the document did not clarify if this Richard Helms is related to the late Director of the CIA, also Richard Helms.</div><div>
</div><div>Releasing his address, phone number, wife’s name, email addresses, and unimpressive arrest record (speeding, expired plates, failing to obey a sign) probably exposes Helms to no real danger.</div><div>
</div><div>Without banking information, there is no financial risk. He may face a deluge of spam emails and will cut a slightly less impressive figure at cocktail parties once his neighbors know he lost $1,278,100 on the value of his house in the real estate slump, but physical attacks as a result of doxing are rare enough that searches including “doxing” and “attacks” primarily return page after page of “Anonymous attacked over doxing” results.</div><div>
</div><div>Trapwire came to prominence earlier this year, when WikiLeaks discovered references to a partnership between the organization and hacked private intelligence firm Stratfor. At the same time WikiLeaks was attempting to reveal the relationship, it was the victim of a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, shutting down its website. The episode caused a sudden flurry of attention for Trapwire which collates information from disparate local and national security agencies, eventually making #trapwire the top trending tag on Twitter in August.</div><div>
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</div><div>The doxing may not have the scope of the HBGary hack last year, which destroyed data and published emails from the computer security government contractor, but it is far more personal.</div><div>==</div></div></div>