Stealthy Government Contractor Monitors U.S. Internet Providers

Its mission: to use a variety of intelligence-gathering efforts to help the government attribute hacking incidents.

And whether that massive data gathering violates privacy? The organization says it never looks at personally identifying information

If it's not personally identifying then how is it useful for attribution?

Aggregate statistical data can also be useful.

August 1, 2010

also

http://cryptome.org/0002/vigilant-fraud.htm

Wasn't this whole thing a hoax? That's my understanding of it. Have new facts come to light, or is this just a couple crazy people with delusions of grandeur talking themselves up?

1,300 new employees by July 2011? Who are these guys? This whole thing sounds like a total fake, especially after reading the cryptome piece on it.