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Endgame and more...
Barrett Brown on Endgame. As you know, Michael Hastings was looking into Endgame when he met with his accident. And we all know where Brown is right now. If you haven't seen it yet, you should check out this Democracy Now segment, which includes a recent interview with Peter Ludlow. The following words came from Brown himself, back in 2012, shortly after his legal troubles began...
The warrants themselves refer to the information that theyre seeking as regarding Anonymous, of course, a few other things of that nature, and also two companies: HBGary and Endgame Systems. Both of these are intelligence contracting companies that Anonymous had a run-in with in February of 2011, during which a number of emails were taken from HBGary, in particular, which themselves revealed a number of conspiracies being perpetuated by those companies in conjunction with Justice Department and several other institutions, including Bank of America, against WikiLeaks and against several journalists.
I would like to emphasize, once again, that HBGary has strong ties to the Breitbart media empire. I never did figure out where Breitbart got the money to start such a large operation...
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2013/08/endgame-and-more.html
Barrett Brown on Endgame. As you know, Michael Hastings was looking into Endgame when he met with his accident. And we all know where Brown is right now. If you haven't seen it yet, you should check out this Democracy Now segment, which includes a recent interview with Peter Ludlow. The following words came from Brown himself, back in 2012, shortly after his legal troubles began...
The warrants themselves refer to the information that theyre seeking as regarding Anonymous, of course, a few other things of that nature, and also two companies: HBGary and Endgame Systems. Both of these are intelligence contracting companies that Anonymous had a run-in with in February of 2011, during which a number of emails were taken from HBGary, in particular, which themselves revealed a number of conspiracies being perpetuated by those companies in conjunction with Justice Department and several other institutions, including Bank of America, against WikiLeaks and against several journalists.
I would like to emphasize, once again, that HBGary has strong ties to the Breitbart media empire. I never did figure out where Breitbart got the money to start such a large operation...
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2013/08/endgame-and-more.html
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Endgame: the world's creepiest tech company? (Original Post)
MinM
Aug 2013
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iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)1. yikes
maybe breitbart didn't follow the plans and had to pay for it too
conservatives were looking for a conspiracy after all
MinM
(2,650 posts)2. Democracy Now!
interview referenced in the op...
Jailed Journalist Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years For Reporting on Hacked Private Intelligence Firms
PETER LUDLOW: things like Endgame Systems, for example. Yeah, Endgame is a very interesting thing. I mean, Endgame is this kind of very secretive private intelligence company. And you even see in the HBGary hack, you see these messages where someone from Endgame says in an email, "We dont ever want to see our name in a press release from you guys." And what makes it particularly interesting is, if you read the search warrant thats issued to Barrett when hes busted, it says, "Well, were looking for stuff related to HBGary and Endgame Systems." You know, like, why Endgame Systems?
And this is a corporation thats involved in what are called "zero-day exploits." Now, whats a zero-day exploit? Basically, what that means is that there are certain security flaws in the software that we have and that we use, and sometimes the company doesnt know about it. Sometimes its known about it for seven days, and theyve had seven days to work on it. A zero-day exploit is one that the software company doesnt know about. And Endgame Systems packages these things and sells them. So, for example, they have one where you getits a subscription for like $2.5 million a year, and you get these exploits. So its things that a hacker would do, but because theyre a business and theyre making money for it, itsapparently its OK, right? And it seems that the Justice Department is kind of running interference for these guys. And theres aI mean, you dont have to take my word for it. Theres a great article in Businessweek on this in which they talk about the guys from Endgame, you know, runningsetting up slides and showing you targets in airports, telling you what the computers are running there, and what kind of thewhat the vulnerabilities are and so forth.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And who runs Endgame? Where are they based?
PETER LUDLOW: Theyre based in Atlanta, Georgia, I believe. Someone recently posted a video on YouTube in which he walked into the place andjust to see what was going on there. And the peopleI think its an exits started by an ex-intelligence person and by a security guy at IBM.
AMY GOODMAN: And, very quickly, Project PM?
PETER LUDLOW: Yeah. Project PM is basically BarrettsI mean, one of the genius things about Barrett was that he wanted to crowdsource all this information, because you get a hack of Stratfor and its five million emails, and how do you sort through all that? So he had a number of friends and acquaintances, including Michael Hastings, by the way, who were members of Project PM.
AMY GOODMAN: Michael Hastings, the reporter who just died in a fiery car crash.
PETER LUDLOW: The reporter who just died in the suspicious car accident, yeah, exactly right. And so, they wouldhe would basically crowdsource this. And so, the case where he copied that link, he was basically notifying the members of Project PM where they could find the information from the Stratfor hack...
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/11/jailed_journalist_barrett_brown_faces_105
PETER LUDLOW: things like Endgame Systems, for example. Yeah, Endgame is a very interesting thing. I mean, Endgame is this kind of very secretive private intelligence company. And you even see in the HBGary hack, you see these messages where someone from Endgame says in an email, "We dont ever want to see our name in a press release from you guys." And what makes it particularly interesting is, if you read the search warrant thats issued to Barrett when hes busted, it says, "Well, were looking for stuff related to HBGary and Endgame Systems." You know, like, why Endgame Systems?
And this is a corporation thats involved in what are called "zero-day exploits." Now, whats a zero-day exploit? Basically, what that means is that there are certain security flaws in the software that we have and that we use, and sometimes the company doesnt know about it. Sometimes its known about it for seven days, and theyve had seven days to work on it. A zero-day exploit is one that the software company doesnt know about. And Endgame Systems packages these things and sells them. So, for example, they have one where you getits a subscription for like $2.5 million a year, and you get these exploits. So its things that a hacker would do, but because theyre a business and theyre making money for it, itsapparently its OK, right? And it seems that the Justice Department is kind of running interference for these guys. And theres aI mean, you dont have to take my word for it. Theres a great article in Businessweek on this in which they talk about the guys from Endgame, you know, runningsetting up slides and showing you targets in airports, telling you what the computers are running there, and what kind of thewhat the vulnerabilities are and so forth.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And who runs Endgame? Where are they based?
PETER LUDLOW: Theyre based in Atlanta, Georgia, I believe. Someone recently posted a video on YouTube in which he walked into the place andjust to see what was going on there. And the peopleI think its an exits started by an ex-intelligence person and by a security guy at IBM.
AMY GOODMAN: And, very quickly, Project PM?
PETER LUDLOW: Yeah. Project PM is basically BarrettsI mean, one of the genius things about Barrett was that he wanted to crowdsource all this information, because you get a hack of Stratfor and its five million emails, and how do you sort through all that? So he had a number of friends and acquaintances, including Michael Hastings, by the way, who were members of Project PM.
AMY GOODMAN: Michael Hastings, the reporter who just died in a fiery car crash.
PETER LUDLOW: The reporter who just died in the suspicious car accident, yeah, exactly right. And so, they wouldhe would basically crowdsource this. And so, the case where he copied that link, he was basically notifying the members of Project PM where they could find the information from the Stratfor hack...
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/11/jailed_journalist_barrett_brown_faces_105