Posted on 05/30/2023 4:49:44 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
That anonymous internet persona with an anime cartoon avatar in your Discord chat might actually be a contractor sent to spy on you.
Enter the world of “threat intelligence.”
It’s the term of art for a growing set of surveillance and security firms that create fake online personas to infiltrate and scrape data from private corners of the internet. The industry provides corporate and government clients with insight into conversations on private, invite-only Discord chats, WhatsApp groups, Reddit forums, and dark web message boards to help those powerful customers keep tabs on a variety of potential threats, from political hacktivists to the illegal markets that traffic in stolen passwords and intellectual property.
I spoke to representatives of ZeroFox, DarkOwl, Searchlight Cyber, Recorded Future, CyberInt, Flashpoint, and other threat intelligence firms at RSA Conference 2023, an annual convention for cyber security professionals from across the world that is held in San Francisco.
“We have personnel who already have established credentials in these environments so that we're able to go in and look for things,” said A.J. Nash, the vice president of intelligence at ZeroFox, a leader in the threat intelligence industry that is based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Nash confirmed that the company is active in Discord, an audio and video group chat app popular among young video-game players.
"We can do the same thing with Discord," Nash added. "It's hard to infiltrate a small group because everybody knows everybody. But some of the groups that are larger, yeah, we have the ability to get into some opportunities."
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And Freerepublic and other similar websites.
Probably no shortage of independent “snitches” on patrol too.
What companies and why?
RSA used to be the “White Hat” of internet security where “BlackHat” was full of the bad guys.
I don’t think this the case anymore.
Enter Amerika 2023/The Biden Days
“And Freerepublic and other similar websites.”
Not much need to infiltrate the FR, it is wide open to the public. Even individual user’s accounts can be stalked, followed, and documented by the public without needing to login. User account history is freely handed to the general public of the world, they don’t even have to work for it.
RE:And Freerepublic and other similar websites.
So, like the 1968 anti-Hubert Humphrey Dem National Convention marchers, no one could tell which was a phony who was a Mayor Daley Chicago police officer or an FBI agent, and which was a sincere American expressing beliefs under freedom of speech and assembly.
Or someone in a memoir of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who was arrested for writing letters criticizing Stalin. He learned there were many spies and agents undermining citizens’ rights in the Soviet Union.
“And Freerepublic and other similar websites.”
Probably so, starting with the snitches who claim Ukraine isn’t worth starting World War 3 over.
Isn’t it amazing how every garage created technology from the 70’s-90’s from the PC to the web browser and apps have been weaponized by people who don’t have the brains to have created them?
“Probably so, starting with the snitches who claim Ukraine isn’t worth starting World War 3 over.”
Wait, whut?
“Need to know”
It is the foundation of good security.
Yes!! Their agents on FR will definitely not be
Tiber Rattler
SpeedyinTexas
Dominusobiscum
MeganC
None off that crowd of Zelinsky Patriots are contractors.
Courtesy ping. You’re being slandered in this thread. Apparently, I’m not worthy though. LOL. FRegards.
I could name a few obvious suspects here
I also believe FBI/DHS are sending FR their lowest IQ, 20-somethings on their first assignment.
Thank you.
Fine. You found me out. I’m a secret agent for the Feds. Now go to your local FBI office, turn yourself in, confess your crimes, and MAYBE we’ll go easy on you.
Maybe.
Now get going!
You will know them by their fruits.
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