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The death of this engineer for EarthLink at 18 (while he also studied at MIT) and which allegedly involved a religious cult based in Oregon, is a good place to start.
Only about 2.5% of suicides are jumping to ones death also (although the percentage is double for women, and this number is US suicides in 2018 keep in mind).
Also this could be just simple fraud. Freely acquiring others IP at no cost, and then almost giving it away because your Cost of Goods Sold is something close to $0.00.
Who is this person? "Bonface" is also not a plausible first name.
Did he lose equity at some point?
Because of the amount, I would guess some of the executable files lead to web shells. I am less sure of, but still somewhat confident, that the open GET queries might be pages where someone has discovered a SQL injection flaw.
They are likely trying to prevent these pages from appearing on Google where a regular user might notice. Will try to look shortly on desktop and update further.
Reporting the open Elasticsearch server to then was one of the most bizarre experiences of my life. Ultimately the system was exposed for about 2 weeks.
You can find some screenshots of what their backend looked like, which came in at about 3 TB daily, here: https://blog.12security.com/rackspace-bluefood-breach/
I don't mean to be sarcastic here, but why spend $40 billion developing some new weapon tech that might or might not work, when instead you can set up a proxy Private Equity firm and buy out all a country's data centers?
Also by the way inside of a data center there is tons of segregation between server racks, dual power sources coming from opposite sides of building, etc. Even if you were given a decent time window a single person could only do limited damage.
A good example is how more and more subdomains keep slipping behind CloudFlare. Those could be hosted anywhere.
Another example, which I spoke to the FBI Los Angeles office this morning about, is Infragard Los Angeles. They literally have subdomains hosted in mainland China. What is going on here? [1]
Interesting to see it back again. It had many problems but was always an interesting concept.
Being familiar with the original #BlueLeaks story is also helpful to understand [2].
[1] - https://cryptome.org/2020/09/dhs-fusion-center.htm
[2] - https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/blueleaks-exposes-files-...
It also now appears to have been a major collection node, codenamed WAXTITAN, for the NSA's BOUNDLESS INFORMANT program.
They had been accused back as far as 2013 by a former sysadmin for hosting CSA, and as recently as last year the OAG in New Mexico repeatedly asked them to do something about the content [1].
This data center provider was recently outted as part of the #BlueLeaks breach, because all 78 DHS Fusion Center sites were hosted there.
Several engineers in Austin, Texas, including myself, have been interviewed by the FBI. It is clear it was not a covert entrapment program or anything like that.
This all brings us to the question of, if the NSA can work with groups and on servers distributing enormous amounts of videos of child sex, they really can do anything they want can't they?
An interesting thing about their interview process is that they often required a night time slot for at least one round.
This was because many teams had their direct manager or VP in mainland PRC, which has a 15 time hour difference.
Otherwise AWS Route 53.
Additionally a lot of "weather stations" around the world are simply number stations. They vary the numbers reported, and wherever they diverge from whatever is determined in advance as the "canonical" source is how information is communicated. This paragraph and the above are just my personal observations please note.
Lastly good examples of weather stations in general (not actual spying things please note) can be found here [1] and here [2].
Incompetence is sometimes a brilliant intelligence and counterintelligence strategy.
The old saying of "don't suspect malice when stupidity is possible" or whatever was a favorite saying of Aldrich Ames. And of course that is what one would say if they were doing what he did.
It's also a great recruitment strategy for spies. The CIA realized by the mid 70's that hey didn't have to ask ppl to defect, or to pass secrets, often they would just say, "can you make sure that if this security concern ever gets filed, you just just make sure it gets lost, or that you are really confused and don't understand?"
Incompetence happened a great deal in the Soviet Union. It mentally killed people to see it everyday. People had just given up on society and accepted a corrupt incompetent way of life. Ultimately, incompetence, even if begun as a malicious strategy, eventually inspires it in others, which is tragic.
It appears that the specific colo being used was also a major NSA bulk intel collection point. The site was codenamed WAXTITAN and it was part of the BOUNDLESS INFORMANT program (we know this because of the Snowden leaks).
I wrote a small script to take screenshots of every DHS Fusion a Center site that was part of #BlueLeaks [1]. Some of the sites are very strange looking.
Data Foundry and Netsential were also part of a series of bizarre allegations made by a former employee back in 2014 and posted to Cryptome.org in some detail. They were serious enough Data Foundry had to write a series of articles and posts denying then. I tried to merge what we know now with what was originally claimed back in 2014 here [2].
[1] - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qyqd8m7goj6uruh/AADM-6C7L7sy4XTad...
Highly recommend looking into the institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) our of Hawaii. Basically a group of outsiders conned one of the Rockefeller's into funding it throughout that time and even through the depression.
One of the best experts we had, Jim Berkland (who was highly controversial), pioneered to this day one of the most empirically supported techniques for predicting earthquakes...missing cat (specially cat) notices in the newspaper. The guy only had a BA too. I was horrified when I read this, but significant enough results were achieved and the field is just about devoid of anything with predictive power currently sadly. Also the underling statistics were done in the early 1980's and forms of media change, so I'm not sure if the technique would even yield usable results today.
Other things that are interesting about earthquakes:
1. The moon plays some role. The gravitational pull of the moon is enough to influence the tension on the crust. Scientists have struggled to yield anything predictive from this, but the math suggests the forces must have some effect
2. Plate tectonics plays less of a role than previously thought. The classic example is China. No major plate boundaries where new crust is being formed (like off the coast of Japan) or of volcanic hotspots (Hawaii), yet an absolutely devastating history of earthquakes that are well recorded going back 3,000 years or so.
3. The influence of large weighted bodies on earthquakes. Again back to China, where it is thought, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has done fascinating research, that big enough fans form pools of water that destabilize the underlying crust.
What happened? Is USDS somehow different from 18f?
[1] - https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2016/10/ig-f...
I don't have the link, but the funeral home that had 100+ bodies piling up in NYC a few weeks ago was theirs.
[1] - https://provequity.com
For whatever reason, it all failed. Assuming slightly higher oil prices than we have now, life under the USSR would likely be better.
Some particularly egregious things the West / Wall Street did:
1. No plan to absorb the massive amount of laid off secret police and military members. These ppl would turn to organized crime very quickly. Same mistake made in Iraq in 2003.
2. Giving Russia garbage loans they were in no position to pay back and had to be repaid in dollars only. An absolute disaster that Goldman Sachs was mostly responsible for.
3. EU was completely unprepared, for what has now become, the greatest migration in human history. The best and brightest left Eastern Europe in droves, causing massive brain drain that helped usher in the collapse of regime after regime.
4. Sending a CIA team to Moscow in 1996 to directly override the wishes of the Russian people. In defense, the USA was worried in a reasonable way that the communist party would win in a landslide at the polls. But regardless that should have been their choice.
5. Not focusing on Afghanistan after leaving in the late 1980's, letting jihadism further spread to Chechyna and the devastating war from 1994-1996 their. Causes terrorism on a 9/11 scale in Moscow, hundreds of Russian tanks destroyed, just insanity.
[2] - https://quillandquire.com/review/sale-of-the-century-russia-...
[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/sunday-review/russia-isnt...
Recently Alexandra Cousteau, the grand-daughter of Jacques, had her name surface in regards to Epstein and whatever operation he was running.
Great example is https://aal.army
Is it an official US Army site? I've inquired in the past. No one knows...
I would like to remind everyone though that for every regime change the US engineered, the KGB was responsible for many times more.
Part of the USSR's philosophy after all was worldwide revolution that was to be exported to all countries.