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Comment by streetnigga | Hacker News Reader

Any comments submitted here may be stored in for-profit corporate databases ran by the likes of Booz Allen Hamilton. Your comments are not data, they are meta-content. No data is collected to be stored in this database, any incidental data that does get stored in the database will be carefully minimized so a worker has to press a key to expose the information.

This data will be pitched to the likes of US Chamber of Commerce[1] via firms like Hunton & Williams[2] as to be used to attack/stifle/undermine political dissidents, journalists like Glenn Greenwald[3], and _THEIR FAMILIES_[4][5]. These comments may be used against you by any nation-state that pays, or entity that leaks information from the database.

All of this foretold in the details (meta-content) of the 2011 anonymous leaks.

[1] http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/02/10/143419/lobbyists...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/politics/12hackers.html...

[3] http://www.salon.com/2011/02/15/palantir/

[4] http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/02/10/143428/chamberle...

[5] http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Aaron-Ba...

edit: Oh eat me anonymous down-voter. Anyone that wishes to learn more about the for-profit interests often created by the NSA or their past employees can read Telecomix's BlueCabinet[1] or Barrett Brown's Project PM[2]. Free Barrett Brown.

[1] https://bluecabinet.info/wiki/Blue_cabinet

[2] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page

> Any comments submitted here may be stored in for-profit corporate databases ran by the likes of Booz Allen Hamilton

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> These comments may be used against you by any nation-state that pays, or entity that leaks information from the database

Uhm...HN comments are by design available to anyone in the world who wants to read them. What is the point of leaking something that is freely available from the original source?

Same reason many corporations make a pretty penny off easily accessible public data? Slick presentation, rich tools to use the data with, and integration into existing work-flow?

The comment was more a gesture at how all this public/semi-public/private/extremely private data can end up being used. Or indeed how it has been used or pitched to be used. When you have NSA affiliates like Palantir mucking about with firms like Hunton & Williams. Teaming up to do attack work on generally anyone who opposes the persons who make up the facade that is US Chamber of Commerce, you have a shipwreck in progress.

How much you are targeted by these entities is a matter of how much of a nail you are to their hammer.

"NSA affiliates like Palantir mucking about with firms like Hunton & Williams [teaming up to attack] anyone who opposes the persons who make up the facade that is US Chamber of Commerce" is brilliant. You're hitting some Robert Anton Wilson notes here. 23 Skidoo!

Tha NSA is quickly becoming the 21st century's flying saucers.

Inane response to well cited content.

That's OK, I sometimes like to respond to people's comments without reading the articles linked as well.

Palantir, known to be funded by the CIA[1] was indeed mucking around with US Chamber of Commerce via Hunton & Williams. The work being solicited was indeed offensive in nature, not just collecting information on activists.

I am not sure what your problem is but you can not respond further if you wish to engage me like this.

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cia-backed-palantir-technologi...

I can't tell you how much I am enjoying this narrative about the US Chamber of Commerce being the secret controllers of the levers of power. Keep going with this! It's gold.

US Chamber of Commerce is indeed a facade for it's individual components, the businesses within. Nothing secret about it. No levers of power, just persons driving involvement and direction of the lobby group. It is rather nasty seeing their solicitation of work with companies having national security clearance, CIA/military ties, aimed at journalists/activists like Glenn Greenwald or bank protestors. I'm sorry if you see colorful language used to describe the fuckwad of conflict of interests as conspiratorial ramblings, but I actually don't think you do. I think you are bored.

This method of belittling peoples out the side of your digital mouth is detrimental most of the time. Rah rah tptacek you are the master of this here at HN, have fun with that.

Can you find a way to work Monsanto and Nickelback into this story?

I will ignore you continuing to be a prick, and instead provide further details upon the topic you are clearly emotive about. Thinking it such "gold." From the now dead Michael Hastings:

"Barrett Brown, another investigative journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, among others publications, exposed the connections between the private contracting firm HB Gary (a government contracting firm that, incidentally, proposed a plan to spy on and ruin the reputation of the Guardian’s Greenwald) and who is currently sitting in a Texas prison on trumped up FBI charges regarding his legitimate reportorial inquiry into the political collective known sometimes as Anonymous[1]."

Is this something to insulting about when a journalist is referencing the situation and the players involved? Or just when I link to the material myself?

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-...

Yes, the Rolling Stone journalist whose car was taken over by NSA satellites and crashed because he was sticking up for the heroin addicted blogger-cum-journalist whose most important scoop publishing the credit card numbers of everyone who ever signed up for STRATFOR. Seriously, where's Hagbard Celine? Hail Eris!

Yes, because "NSA satellites" is exactly what I talking about. The best you can do to not acknowledge Hastings reporting being entirely contextual to what I have been saying is to make a slight about his death being a conspiracy?

That's pretty fucked up.

As for Barrett Brown, the entities at the top of the warrant's list were HBGary, Infragard, and NSA affiliate/botnet information using Endgame Systems[1]. You seem to conflate Brown with the person who hacked the firm and leaked the data. Brown was a person who reported on the contents and helped coordinate research on those companies the warrant names amongst others.

About Stratfor, court documents for Sabu the FBI snitch show that the leaked data was directed to an FBI server when the site was hacked and the data ex-filtrated. Instead of pinning the credit card information that was uploaded directly to the FBI as being disseminated by Brown (Hammond was the Stratfor hacker), perhaps you should ask how it was allowed to leave the FBI's control after the data landed on their forensically secure server[2].

But no, Mr Brown used drugs so of course that is what you latch onto as to diminish work done or waffle away from discussing this topic at all. Classic tptacek character attack. Relent on being such a dick, purposefully exaggerating/contorting the subjects as to dismiss them and perhaps we can discuss this topic, as so far you have just been making snotty comments.

[1] http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/4/24/17/...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/07/was-ano...

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