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Even if it's not connected, putting all of this on accessible computers whether at Cambridge Analytica or various #botnets was *beyond* foolish.

Signed confessions, video documentation, emails discussing in graphic detail *pale* compared to what they have.
It's one thing to have mountains of hard evidence re: crimes.

But the computers can literally detail every minute detail & action the felonies, & literally record the whole thing.

It's like preserving not just a recording of the crime, but the whole crime itself, in amber.
It's not just Cambridge Analytica's servers or whatever they were using for a supercomputer. #Botnets consist of thousands or even millions of computers, & you don't *own* them.

You're taking them over.

You don't own the servers you're networking over.
Literally *millions* of points of vulnerability.

And in practice, you've recorded the entire crime - in Cambridge Analytica's case, apparently 10s of millions of acts of wire fraud, etc - in digital form forever.

I doubt it was purged before it was seized.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
I doubt the #botnets *could* be effectively purged before they were seized, simply because there's far too many that aren't remotely under your direct physical control.

*Someone* pulled a plug & stuck a hard drive in the closet.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov, @ericgarland, @counterchekist
Actually, probably *thousands* of someones.

Worse, servers that got mothballed before fully purging the last year's worth of logfiles.

If you want data, find your data chokepoints & see where it's still quite available.

The @FBI/@NSAGov *know* this.
But reap this data in conjunction w/crimes uncovered w/out exposing intel sources & methods?

Again, with the computers, you've practically stopped time & frozen the entire crime itself, to be displayed at your leisure in the #RICO trial.
cc: @FBI/@NSAGov
Everything about the #botnet/#kompromat guys going down terrify everyone.

The *real* Cohen analogy?

Once you could simply seize all those voice recordings/communications/records because of foolish public pronouncements - it's another staggering source of data.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
When I talk about The Plan, one piece obviously was all of these inept actors self-assembling their Participatory Panopticon & handing it to law enforcement/CI.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
But I've also assumed we would do mass data forensics on increasingly vast data sets as a given w/the emergence of quantum & post-zetascale supercomputing.

Given I've been sitting what appear to breakthroughs along those lines, it was far from academic.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
Human enhancement, AI & other advancements amplifying effective human intelligence & resources necessitated an exponentially more potent means of dealing with serious threats.

Obviously I've been hinting at those for the last 15 years or so.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
So when I get excited over things like your #planespotting work showing the practice of changing plane IDs or @ericgarland discussing invisible backlinking to influence search algorithms...
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
These are exactly the data points you would review in quantum/zetascale data forensics.

Not by themselves, but superimposed against that larger set of databases.

Or against individual ones.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
Another example?

#Botnets would show distinct changes in the operation of individual computers but also changes at scale in masses of them.

Always on, strange operating hours, changes in sites located.

Having numerous botnets to reference would tell you more.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
So in addition to scanning in real time, why not go back and see what you can find?

Remember, it's one thing for a criminal to hide from a threat s/he doesn't know exists.

Quite another to have irretrievable evidence they never knew would be reaped.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
There will obviously be differences in how different agencies & governments will handle this, especially once the #KremlinGate investigation is finally over.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
But I've always assumed we'll be reviewing these data sets as a matter of course, not just for law enforcement or for general interest, but as a way of testing the capabilities of radically more advanced supercomputers.
cc: @FBI, @NSAGov
Not all of The Plan, by any means, but another piece.

And a necessary one.

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Sep 23, 2018
@ericgarland Only the beginning, Eric.

Why?

I considered the flaw in cryptocurrency enabling the mass tracking/takedown of organized crime/Russian intel a modest side project for more than one reason. As we proceed, *why* will become more apparent.
@ericgarland So, SS7 protocols represent a massive flaw in cell-phone security.

Likely useful for years, but less so as it becomes public knowledge.

But sources & methods you *can* safely declassify?
cc: @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @thespybrief @911CORLEBRA777
@ericgarland @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @thespybrief @911CORLEBRA777 What if a staggering source of hard evidence in the Russian coup came from a technical weakness of rapidly diminishing utility, & which urgently needed to be closed anyway?
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Sep 15, 2018
@ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @JamesFourM @thespybrief @patribotics @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @DirkSchwenk @xtrixcyclex @colinkalmbacher @claytonpurdom @emzanotti @RoyBlunt @FBIWFO @NewYorkFBI @FBILosAngeles @INTERPOL_HQ @DHSgov It's hard to overstate how important a cooperating Manafort becomes to unraveling media subversion.

But let's start with Eric's documentation of media-influence operations & go from there.
@ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @JamesFourM @thespybrief @patribotics @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @DirkSchwenk @xtrixcyclex @colinkalmbacher @claytonpurdom @emzanotti @RoyBlunt @FBIWFO @NewYorkFBI @FBILosAngeles @INTERPOL_HQ @DHSgov First, remember @ericgarland initially just released the public, executive summary of his research into *one* aspect of this - a consistent pattern of harassment in response to his original Game Theory thread.
@ericgarland @911CORLEBRA777 @JamesFourM @thespybrief @patribotics @LouiseMensch @ninaandtito @DirkSchwenk @xtrixcyclex @colinkalmbacher @claytonpurdom @emzanotti @RoyBlunt @FBIWFO @NewYorkFBI @FBILosAngeles @INTERPOL_HQ @DHSgov There are so many critical details to go over here.

One, the patterns were easily detected, & hard evidence could be found in abundance.

Two, Eric *didn't* stop with documenting & researching just that one piece.
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Sep 6, 2018
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ So, to list of other things .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury could use in a #BigData search to pull any remaining deep-cover spies:

Yes, as I've noted before, you can pull all the "re-issued" credentials, then check for any preceding ID.

But that's just a start.
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden @CIA @TheJusticeDept @gametheorytoday @DEAHQ That's an obvious thing .@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury could do, given the supposed tendency of deep-cover operatives to request "re-issuing" of a "lost" ID that never existed in the first place.
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Aug 21, 2018
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA Again, there was a warning about more evidence being released in tandem with egregious attacks on Kremlin's critics.

Given the targeting of Brennan, we’ve hit another tipping point.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA I was planning to drop more evidence sources, but I don't think everyone yet realizes the security-clearance fiasco is a giant evidence-reaping machine *in* *itself.*
@JohnBrennan @GenMhayden
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ @LincolnsBible @USTreasury @BarackObama @NATO @DARPA @JohnBrennan @GenMhayden As discussed previously in this thread, we have no shortage of people who direly need to proffer *something,* in the face of an investigation that needs neither their testimony nor their evidence.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ .@USTreasury
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Aug 4, 2018
@ericgarland @20committee So, .@ericgarland gets a new kind of botnet targeting, & .@JamesFourM runs into issues w/his article on @Medium?

There was a warning about harassment & the countering release of evidence on the conspiracy.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ The warning: Any egregious harassment of Kremlin critics could release or expedite yet *another* major evidence source against the conspiracy.

While unpleasant, I think these two each warrant something modest… yet formidable.

& apropos.
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ
@ericgarland @20committee @JamesFourM @Medium @FBI @NSAGov @DHSgov @GCHQ So, Eric you brought up the agencies rating investments recently, as well as AIG, stock markets, etc.

What, you might ask, is so deadly about global finance & the conspiracy? Beyond the obvious flows of money & influence?
.@FBI .@NSAGov .@DHSgov .@GCHQ
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Jul 28, 2018
@TheRickWilson @LouiseMensch Oops.

For everyone seeking a deal w/law enforcement, there is one *small* detail we may have glossed over for all parties.

Asset forfeiture. To the government, and... to civil suits.
cc: @thespybrief @ericgarland @TrueFactsStated
@TheRickWilson @LouiseMensch @thespybrief @ericgarland @TrueFactsStated And if you're thinking you'll fight - *great!*

A #RICO conviction proving guilt up front?

Involving treason, organized crime, media collusion, child trafficking, etc?

*&* you harassed or threatened people's kids? *Not* just the adult ones?
@TheRickWilson @LouiseMensch @thespybrief @ericgarland @TrueFactsStated I'm sure jury pools drawn from DC, New York, London, etc will be sympathetic.

But do remember a couple of *other* trivial details.

One, the Democratic Party already filed such a suit, and named Russian intelligence as a defendant.
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