The Stratfor Insecurity Fence

I made this picture of an odd "fence" myself using a digital art program.  It is copyleft, although I don't know why anyone would want to use it.  ~radical sapphoq











Corporate giant and private elite spy company Stratfor faces some embarassment due to the leak of a whole lot of e-mails.  This stuff is being published on wikileaks and the first installment can be found here at http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/releases.html for those who are interested. 

Some other stuff was allegedly taken also:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/25/anonymous-security-thinktank-stratfor  .  Credit card numbers and bank transfers appear to have been used to gift charities with donations, monies which the charities will have to return. 

http://moneylife.in/article/anonymously-yours-wikileaks-latest-expose-is-the-next-step-in-cyber-war/23930.html 
Although it was initially reported that George Friedman stepped down from his post as CEO of Stratfor, he denied having done so.

Stratfor claims via this vid that at least one e-mail is not by George Friedman as it purports to be:






A tiny bit of damage control there perhaps on January 6, 2012 (the date the vid was uploaded to U-tube) by Fred Burton.  Sorry buddy, I just don't believe you.


radical sapphoq says: In the outrage by suits against Anonymous, there is something missing in the outrage.  Stratfor is a private intelligence company that apparently did not encrypt its' e-mails.  And that is FAIL.
The insecure and careless storage of personal information held on to by companies and organizations including but not limited to the private sector and the U.S. government is precisely one of the many reasons why I am for taking security measures when skating around on the internet. 
Stratfor by reports is a smallish company employing approximately forty people in a downtown Austin office.  Could they not have been more careless about this?

    To Stratfor: not encrypting your e-mails: FAIL.  Casual reference to the idea that Julian Assage needs to be waterboarded: FAIL.  Cursing in company e-mails: FAIL.  Crying about the "bad hackers": FAIL.  

We need Anonymous and Wikileaks today more than ever in the fight for justice and freedom.
I recommend following the anonops blogspot and bsnorrell. 


http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/02/wikileaks-publishes-global-intelligence.html

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/now-wikileaks-releasing-stratfor-global.html

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/31196-massive-leak-reveals-criminality-paranoia-among-corporate-titans.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46555168/ns/us_news-security/

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232601656

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2012/02/stratfor-files-flawed-global-intelligence-rotten-root-war