Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network

[newarkhiphop]

The U.S. cable networks won't be covering this one tonight (not accurately, anyway), but Trapwire is making the rounds on social media today—it reportedly became a Trending hashtag on Twitter earlier in the day.
Trapwire is the name of a program revealed in the latest Wikileaks bonanza—it is the mother of all leaks, by the way. Trapwire would make something like disclosure of UFO contact or imminent failure of a major U.S. bank fairly boring news by comparison.
And someone out there seems to be quite disappointed that word is getting out so swiftly; the Wikileaks web site is reportedly sustaining 10GB worth of DDoS attacks each second, which is massive.

"Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology—and have installed it across the U.S. under the radar of most Americans, according to emails hacked by Anonymous.

Every few seconds, data picked up at surveillance points in major cities and landmarks across the United States are recorded digitally on the spot, then encrypted and instantaneously delivered to a fortified central database center at an undisclosed location to be aggregated with other intelligence. It’s part of a program called TrapWire and it's the brainchild of the Abraxas, a Northern Virginia company staffed with elite from America’s intelligence community.
The employee roster at Arbaxas reads like a who’s who of agents once with the Pentagon, CIA and other government entities according to their public LinkedIn profiles, and the corporation's ties are assumed to go deeper than even documented. The details on Abraxas and, to an even greater extent TrapWire, are scarce, however, and not without reason. For a program touted as a tool to thwart terrorism and monitor activity meant to be under wraps, its understandable that Abraxas would want the program’s public presence to be relatively limited. But thanks to last year’s hack of the Strategic Forecasting intelligence agency, or Stratfor, all of that is quickly changing."
So: those spooky new "circular" dark globe cameras installed in your neighborhood park, town, or city—they aren't just passively monitoring. They're plugged into Trapwire and they are potentially monitoring every single person via facial recognition.
In related news, the Obama administration is fighting in federal court this week for the ability to imprison American citizens under NDAA's indefinite detention provisions—and anyone else—without charge or trial, on suspicion alone.
So we have a widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes.
Here's what is also so disturbing about this whole NDAA business, according to Tangerine Bolen's piece in the Guardian: "This past week's hearing was even more terrifying. Government attorneys again, in this hearing, presented no evidence to support their position and brought forth no witnesses. Most incredibly, Obama's attorneys refused to assure the court, when questioned, that the NDAA's section 1021 – the provision that permits reporters and others who have not committed crimes to be detained without trial – has not been applied by the U.S. government anywhere in the world after Judge Forrest's injunction. In other words, they were telling a U.S. federal judge that they could not, or would not, state whether Obama's government had complied with the legal injunction that she had laid down before them. To this, Judge Forrest responded that if the provision had indeed been applied, the United States government would be in contempt of court."


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8#ixzz2UXNiPWId

What is TrapWire?

In short, TrapWire is surveillance software used by both private industry and the U.S. government and its allies oversees, allowing both public and private sector users to help in counter-terrorism and anti-crime efforts. The software uses algorithms and data from a variety of surveillance sources -- including CCTV and human-input from spotted 'suspicious' behavior -- to, in essence, 'predict' potentially criminal activity.

One leaked Stratfor-owned document, describes it as follows:

There are a variety of new tools, such as TrapWire, a software system designed to work with camera systems to help detect patterns of pre-operational surveillance, that can be focused on critical areas to help cut through the fog of noise and activity and draw attention to potential threats.
While ordinary CCTV cameras are often 'passive' and monitored by humans, TrapWire-connected cameras, such as 'pan-tilt-zoom' cameras, are able to track people, along with license plate readers, called Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) from place to place.

http://www.zdnet.com/wikileaks-uncovers-trapwire-surveillance-faq-7000002513/

 

[Meta Reign]

Wowww

 

[Mr. Negative]

they cna come and get you whenever they want to.

there is no "off the grid" in this country.

 

[Dooby]

nah i think a ufo incident would have taken the cake. I already guessed we were being monitored all the time somehow...they already monitor our phone calls and store them, what makes you think they wont do that with cameras around the globe?

 

[88m3]

crazy they haven't gotten any of you guys yet!

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?

 

[kevm3]

For the most part, I don't even keep up with this kind of news because I already know what's down the pipeline. I just sit back and try to enjoy the last few years of peace before the storm hits. Couple something like this with Eric Schmidt's statement about everything a person does online being stored... pretty much what is happening is that profiles are being built on everyone in the United States, and soon, the world... that's why all the sites want you to use one login, such as facebook to log into all of these different sites and they want you to tie everything in with your phone number. Obviously they tell you your phone number will be used for 'safety purposes' in case you lose your password, but it all comes down to unifying your information in one convenient profile.

It will eventually come to a point where the powers in charge can search keywords through all of your archived information and if undesirable keywords continually pop up, you will have to reckon with them. The facial recognition software is also critical to tying everything together into one profile. When you tag yourself or someone tags you in those facebook photos, don't think that knowledge isn't being stored in a database by the government, giving your 'profile' a face. That can then be matched with your face whenever you come across one of these cameras. That new Microsoft console is also a trojan horse for surveillance. It can see in the dark, detect your heartbeat, and is 'always on.' They say it's always on so you can use voice commands to turn your console on, but in reality, 'always on' coupled with a required internet connection means it can be accessed remotely to listen in and see what you are doing.

 

[blackzeus]

For the most part, I don't even keep up with this kind of news because I already know what's down the pipeline. I just sit back and try to enjoy the last few years of peace before the storm hits. Couple something like this with Eric Schmidt's statement about everything a person does online being stored... pretty much what is happening is that profiles are being built on everyone in the United States, and soon, the world... that's why all the sites want you to use one login, such as facebook to log into all of these different sites and they want you to tie everything in with your phone number. Obviously they tell you your phone number will be used for 'safety purposes' in case you lose your password, but it all comes down to unifying your information in one convenient profile.

It will eventually come to a point where the powers in charge can search keywords through all of your archived information and if undesirable keywords continually pop up, you will have to reckon with them. The facial recognition software is also critical to tying everything together into one profile. When you tag yourself or someone tags you in those facebook photos, don't think that knowledge isn't being stored in a database by the government, giving your 'profile' a face. That can then be matched with your face whenever you come across one of these cameras. That new Microsoft console is also a trojan horse for surveillance. It can see in the dark, detect your heartbeat, and is 'always on.' They say it's always on so you can use voice commands to turn your console on, but in reality, 'always on' coupled with a required internet connection means it can be accessed remotely to listen in and see what you are doing.

You an intelligent nikka my dude. Why is it so important to have cameras on everything, cell phone, laptops, ipads, etc? Why Gmail stay asking me for my number to verify my account in case it's been hacked? Nikka, let me worry about my account, why don't you worry about your cotdamn server security. That's why I stay off of facebook and all those social sites, it's just there to gather info. Why I need to login to Facebook/Gmail in order to reply to a political report on Bloomberg?

 

[Brown Ant]

For the most part, I don't even keep up with this kind of news because I already know what's down the pipeline. I just sit back and try to enjoy the last few years of peace before the storm hits. Couple something like this with Eric Schmidt's statement about everything a person does online being stored... pretty much what is happening is that profiles are being built on everyone in the United States, and soon, the world... that's why all the sites want you to use one login, such as facebook to log into all of these different sites and they want you to tie everything in with your phone number. Obviously they tell you your phone number will be used for 'safety purposes' in case you lose your password, but it all comes down to unifying your information in one convenient profile.

It will eventually come to a point where the powers in charge can search keywords through all of your archived information and if undesirable keywords continually pop up, you will have to reckon with them. The facial recognition software is also critical to tying everything together into one profile. When you tag yourself or someone tags you in those facebook photos, don't think that knowledge isn't being stored in a database by the government, giving your 'profile' a face. That can then be matched with your face whenever you come across one of these cameras. That new Microsoft console is also a trojan horse for surveillance. It can see in the dark, detect your heartbeat, and is 'always on.' They say it's always on so you can use voice commands to turn your console on, but in reality, 'always on' coupled with a required internet connection means it can be accessed remotely to listen in and see what you are doing.

What new Microsoft console are you referring to?

 

[The Frozen One]

this is why i find it funny when people talk about their "rights" .. Rights to speech, being able to whatever they want and so on.

Nobody in America (and to some extent Canada and Mexico) has rights. Everything is controlled by big brother. Your rights to them mean nothing. If they wish, they can end you without a trace.

Anyone who thinks they are not being monitored are dumb people who don't really care about their privacy.

The worst of it all is that there is nothing that any of us can do about it. Big brother will continue to do its thing. And we will like always pretend like we don't know and keep it moving. That's all that can be done.

 

[Mr. Negative]

For the most part, I don't even keep up with this kind of news because I already know what's down the pipeline. I just sit back and try to enjoy the last few years of peace before the storm hits. Couple something like this with Eric Schmidt's statement about everything a person does online being stored... pretty much what is happening is that profiles are being built on everyone in the United States, and soon, the world... that's why all the sites want you to use one login, such as facebook to log into all of these different sites and they want you to tie everything in with your phone number. Obviously they tell you your phone number will be used for 'safety purposes' in case you lose your password, but it all comes down to unifying your information in one convenient profile.

It will eventually come to a point where the powers in charge can search keywords through all of your archived information and if undesirable keywords continually pop up, you will have to reckon with them. The facial recognition software is also critical to tying everything together into one profile. When you tag yourself or someone tags you in those facebook photos, don't think that knowledge isn't being stored in a database by the government, giving your 'profile' a face. That can then be matched with your face whenever you come across one of these cameras. That new Microsoft console is also a trojan horse for surveillance. It can see in the dark, detect your heartbeat, and is 'always on.' They say it's always on so you can use voice commands to turn your console on, but in reality, 'always on' coupled with a required internet connection means it can be accessed remotely to listen in and see what you are doing.

I tried spelling the exact same out in a Google thread, explaining how they were human data traffickers and what they do with that information.....

but then I'm a conspiracy theorist.

we're all just flies caught in the World Wide Web.

Right now, yes they could come and get whomever they pleased whenever they wanted to. We aren't easy to track. Right now a lot of us aren't giving anyone a reason to.

But you best believe that going to certain sites and/or typing certain "buzzwords and phrases" multiple times sends up flags that are pegged on your profile.

If you ever commit a serious crime, they'll know exactly who you are, where to get you, how to chase you to make it look good and how to paint your character on the news in under 24 hours.

It's gonna be some ugly times coming up when certain "innocent" things you say and do on the internet is gonna get you hemmed up.

Or even worse... things you've been doing for that last 5-20 years on the internet.

 

[kevm3]

You an intelligent nikka my dude. Why is it so important to have cameras on everything, cell phone, laptops, ipads, etc? Why Gmail stay asking me for my number to verify my account in case it's been hacked? Nikka, let me worry about my account, why don't you worry about your cotdamn server security. That's why I stay off of facebook and all those social sites, it's just there to gather info. Why I need to login to Facebook/Gmail in order to reply to a political report on Bloomberg?

That's pretty much why all the phones have cameras on both sides now. What's even creepier is that all of our phone calls are being stored as well according to a former FBI agent

http://www.businessinsider.com/gree...ed-and-accessible-to-the-us-government-2013-5

 

[kevm3]

What new Microsoft console are you referring to?

http://blayze.com/posts/it-s-very-creepy-how-much-the-new-xbox-one-kinect-knows-about-you

 

[kevm3]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/15/new-totalitarianism-surveillance-technology

Here is a taste of the facial recognition software in real life:

A software engineer in my Facebook community wrote recently about his outrage that when he visited Disneyland, and went on a ride, the theme park offered him the photo of himself and his girlfriend to buy – with his credit card information already linked to it. He noted that he had never entered his name or information into anything at the theme park, or indicated that he wanted a photo, or alerted the humans at the ride to who he and his girlfriend were – so, he said, based on his professional experience, the system had to be using facial recognition technology. He had never signed an agreement allowing them to do so, and he declared that this use was illegal. He also claimed that Disney had recently shared data from facial-recognition technology with the United States military.

Yes, I know: it sounds like a paranoid rant.

Except that it turned out to be true. News21, supported by the Carnegie and Knight foundations, reports that Disney sites are indeed controlled by face-recognition technology, that the military is interested in the technology, and that the face-recognition contractor, Identix, has contracts with the US government – for technology that identifies individuals in a crowd.

 

[yo moms]

I tried spelling the exact same out in a Google thread, explaining how they were human data traffickers and what they do with that information.....

but then I'm a conspiracy theorist.

we're all just flies caught in the World Wide Web.

Right now, yes they could come and get whomever they pleased whenever they wanted to. We aren't easy to track. Right now a lot of us aren't giving anyone a reason to.

But you best believe that going to certain sites and/or typing certain "buzzwords and phrases" multiple times sends up flags that are pegged on your profile.

If you ever commit a serious crime, they'll know exactly who you are, where to get you, how to chase you to make it look good and how to paint your character on the news in under 24 hours.

It's gonna be some ugly times coming up when certain "innocent" things you say and do on the internet is gonna get you hemmed up.

Or even worse... things you've been doing for that last 5-20 years on the internet.

Some of the shyt I've searched on the Internet let's just say I will be a prime suspect if any shyt goes down in my area.