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| Self-styled 'security expert' Thomas Ryan has been forwarding emails from the OWS movement to the NYPD and the FBI. (photo: AP) |
OWS Communications Reportedly Hacked
By Adrian Chen, Gawker | The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for a month. And it seems the FBI and NYPD have had help tracking protesters' moves thanks to a conservative computer security expert who gained access to one of the group's internal mailing lists, and then handed over information on the group's plans to authorities and corporations targeted by protesters.
Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on
September 17, New York security consultant Thomas Ryan has been waging a
campaign to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Ryan says he's done
contract work for the U.S. Army and he brags
on his blog that he leads "a team called Black Cell, a team of the
most-highly trained and capable physical, threat and cyber security
professionals in the world." But over the past few weeks, he and his
computer security buddies have been spending time covertly attending
Occupy Wall Street meetings, monitoring organizers' social media
accounts, and hanging out with protesters in Lower Manhattan.
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As part of their intelligence-gathering operation, the
group gained access to a listserv used by Occupy Wall Street organizers
called September17discuss. On September17discuss, organizers hash out
tactics and plan events, conduct post-mortems of media appearances, and
trade the latest protest gossip. On Friday, Ryan leaked thousands of
September17discuss emails to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who
is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist
conspiracy to disrupt global markets.
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What may be much more alarming to Occupy Wall Street
organizers is that while Ryan was monitoring September17discuss, he was
forwarding interesting email threads to contacts at the NYPD and FBI,
including special agent Jordan T. Loyd, a member of the FBI's New
York-based cyber security team.
On September 18th, the day after the protest's start,
Ryan forwarded an email exchange between Occupy Wall Street organizers
to Loyd. The email exchange is harmless: Organizers discuss how they
need to increase union participation in the protest. "We need more
outreach to workers. The best way to do that is by showing solidarity
with them," writes organizer Jackie DiSalvo in the thread. She then
lists a group of potential unions to work with. [continued below]
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Another organizer named Conor responds: "+1,000,000 to
Jackie's proposal on working people/union struggles outreach and
solidarity. Also, why not invite people to protest Troy Davis's
execution date at Liberty Plaza this Monday?"
Five minutes after Conor sent his email, Ryan
forwarded the thread - with no additional comment - to Loyd's FBI email
address. "Thanks!" Loyd responded. He cc'd his colleague named Ilhwan
Yum, a fellow cybersecurity expert at the agency, on the reply.
On September 26th, Ryan forwarded another email thread
to Agent Loyd. But this time he clued in the NYPD as well, sending the
email to Dennis Dragos, a detective with the NYPD Computer Crimes Squad.
The NYPD might have been very grateful he did so,
since it involved a proposed demonstration outside NYPD headquarters at 1
Police Plaza. In the thread, organizers debated whether to crash an
upcoming press conference planned by marijuana advocates to celebrate
NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly ordering officers to halt arrests over possession of small amounts of marijuana.
"Should we bring some folks from Liberty Plaza to
chant "SHAME" for the NYPD's recent brutalities on Thursday night for
the Troy Davis and Saturday for the Occupy Wall Street march?" asked one
person in the email thread. (That past Saturday, the video of NYPD
officer Anthony Bologna pepper-spraying a protester had gone viral.) Ryan promptly forwarded the email thread to Loyd at the FBI and Dragos at the NYPD.
Interestingly, it was Ryan who revealed himself as a snitch. We learned of these emails from the archive Ryan leaked yesterday
in the hopes of undermining the Occupy Wall Street movement. In
assembling the archive of September17discuss emails, it appears he
accidentally included some of his own forwarded emails indicating he was
ratting out organizers.
"I don't know, I just put everything I had into one
big package," Ryan said when asked how the emails ended up in the file
posted to Andrew Breitbart's blog. Some security expert.
But Ryan didn't just tip off the authorities. He was
also giving information to companies as well. When protesters discussed
demonstrating in front of morning shows like Today and Good Morning America, Ryan quickly forwarded the thread to Mark Farrell, the chief security officer at Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal.
Ryan wrote:
Since you are the CSO, I am not sure of your role in NBC since COMCAST owns them.
There
is a huge protest in New York call "Occupy Wall Street". Here is an
email of stunts that they will try to pull on the TODAY show.
We have been heavily monitoring Occupy Wall Street, and Anonymous.
"Thanks Tom," Farrell responded. "I'll pass this to my counterpart at NBCU."
Did the FBI and/or NYPD ask him to monitor Occupy Wall
Street? Was he just forwarding the emails on out of the goodness of his
heart? In a phone interview with us, Ryan denied being an informant. "I
do not work with the FBI," he said.
Ryan said he knows Loyd through their mutual
involvement in the Open Web Application Security Project, a non-profit
computer security group of which Ryan is a board member. Ryan said he
sent the emails to Loyd unsolicited simply because "everyone's curious"
about Occupy Wall Street, and he had a ground-eye view. "Jordan never
asked me for anything."
Was he sending every email he got to the authorities?
Ryan said he couldn't remember how many he'd passed on to the FBI or
NYPD, or other third parties. Later he said that he only forwarded the
two emails we noticed, detailed above.
But even if he'd been sending them on regularly, they
were probably of limited use to the authorities. Most of the real
organizing at Occupy Wall Street happens face-to-face, according to
David Graeber, who was one of the earliest organizers. "We did some
practical work on [the email list] at first - I think that's where I
first proposed the "we are the 99%" motto - but mainly it's just an
expressive forum," he wrote in an email. "No one would seriously discuss
a plan to do something covert or dangerous on such a list."
But regardless of how many emails Ryan sent - or
whether Loyd ever asked Ryan to spy on Occupy Wall Street - Loyd was
almost certainly interested in the emails he received. Loyd has helped
hunt down members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, and he and his
colleagues in the FBI's cyber security squad have been monitoring their
involvement in Occupy Wall Street.
according to a New York Institute of Technology press release.
We contacted Loyd to ask about his relationship with
Ryan and if any of the information Ryan passed along was of any use to
the agency. He declined to answer questions and referred us to the FBI's
press office. We'll post an update if we hear back from them.
We asked Ryan again this morning about how closely he
was working with the authorities. Again, he claimed it was only these
two emails, which is unlikely given he forwarded them to the FBI and
NYPD without providing any context or explaining where he'd gotten them.
And he detailed his rationale for assisting the NYPD:
My respect for FDNY & NYPD stems from them risking their
lives to save mine when my house was on fire in sunset park when I was 8
yrs old. Also, for them risking their lives and saving many family and
friends during 9/11.
Don't you find it Ironic that out of all the
NYPD involved with the protest, [protesters] have only targeted the
ones with Black Ribbons, given to them for their bravery during 9/11?
I
am sorry if we see things differently, I try to look at everything as a
whole and in patterns. Everything we do in life and happens in life,
there is a pattern behind it.
Source: http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/316-20/7954-focus-ows-communications-reportedly-hacked
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Moines Register ...
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Busted Stalking Student, Demands COINTELPRO GPS Stasi Gear Returned.
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PEOPLE ...
Mar 07, 2011 | For
instance, the FBI's COINTELPRO operations targeted dissidents in
America in the 1960s and 1970s. Caution and common sense security
measures in the face of the concerted efforts to stop us are therefore
both prudent ...
Dec 30, 2009 | During
the New York Panther 21 trial in 1971, activists raided a Pennsylvania
FBI office and found documents on the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program
(Cointelpro) involving targeting left-wing radicals, particularly
blacks. ...
Jan 14, 2011 | David
Booth works within the Central Intelligence Agency in COINTELPRO. Other
western intelligence agencies known for using COINTELPRO methods
include MI5, MI6, GCHQ, and the think-tank, DEMOS. To be quite blunt, ...
Nov 29, 2010 | Wikileaks
claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence
Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S.
intelligence agencies. WMR's sources believe that it is Wikileaks that
is part and ...
Dec 21, 2010 | The
activists say the fervor of the current harassment is reminiscent of
the agency's COINTELPRO program of the 1950s and 1960s that targeted
Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Black Panther leaders, among many
others ...
Aug 31, 2010 | Because
Sunstein explicitly states that "9/11 conspiracy theories" are his main
focus, virtually all interpreters have agreed that Sunstein's call for
what is essentially another Cointelpro Operation is directed
specifically against ...
Jan 04, 2010 | Counter
Intelligence Programs Against Activists in the 60s: COINTELPRO (an
acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and
often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of
...
Feb 15, 2011 | Ed.
Note: Reminds of the lesser toxic side of COINTELPRO or SS lite,
corporate style. Energy companies spying on activist groups, just what
Obama appointee Cass Sunstein has been hired to do. Around the DC Metro
area here, ...
Jan 06, 2011 | Listening
to the frenzied accusations of “disinformation”, “shill”, “stooge”,
“cointelpro”, “propagandist” that activists and journalists are wont to
hurl at each other, I decided to jot down some of the markers that set ...
Dec 18, 2010 | Ed.
Note: 9 Years of War Based on a Lie - until the professional anti-war
groups get that, albeit being handled by tried and true methodologies of
FBI Cointelpro operatives, we'll never get anywhere. ...
Nov 27, 2010| ...
an inert bomb supplied to him by the FBI, on the corner of Southwest
Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue -- in full view of the ceremony. Related
RedactedNews. COINTELPRO - THE FBI'S HISTORY OF DIRTY TRICKS AGAINST
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ...
Jan 24, 2011 | The
FBI directed BOSS actions as part of it's Counter Intelligence Program
(Cointelpro) against Malcolm X. On top of the hierarchy mandated by the
National Security Act of 1947, CIA superiors supervised this entire U.S.
...
Dec 15, 2010 | Although
the basic formula to neutralize a target in Cointelpro signature style
is the same in both cases, Walbert's case possibly differs to the Quaids
in one respect. Technology that is empowering criminals to "get into
every part of ...
Jul 28, 2010 | Wikileaks
claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence
Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S.
intelligence agencies. WMR's sources believe that it is Wikileaks that
is part and ...
Sep 17, 2010 | What
Demos and Sunstein are essentially calling for is classic “provocateur”
style infiltration, updated for the 21st century, that came to the fore
during the Cointelpro years, an FBI program from 1956-1971 that was ...
Jan 21, 2011 | In
an even more flagrant display from the Zionist criminal network,
Wikileaks received top billing from puppet president Obama's information
Czar, the originator of cyber COINTELPRO, Cass Sunstein. This wasn't
enough ...
Dec 24, 2010 | John
Young says that the Sunstein article was the first public introduction
of WikiLeaks and that WikiLeaks might well be the cointelpro operation
to infiltrate conspiracy groups that Sunstein seemed to be arguing for
in a later ...
Dec 21, 2010 | With
Wikileaks' vast connections to the CIA, and its glamorous image in the
anti-war movement, it is clear that Assange's group is a reflection of
Sunstein's Orwellian vision. Wikileaks is COINTELPRO 2.0, cyber edition.
...
Since you are the CSO, I am not sure of your role in NBC since COMCAST owns them.
There is a huge protest in New York call "Occupy Wall Street". Here is an email of stunts that they will try to pull on the TODAY show.
We have been heavily monitoring Occupy Wall Street, and Anonymous.
according to a New York Institute of Technology press release.
My respect for FDNY & NYPD stems from them risking their lives to save mine when my house was on fire in sunset park when I was 8 yrs old. Also, for them risking their lives and saving many family and friends during 9/11.
Don't you find it Ironic that out of all the NYPD involved with the protest, [protesters] have only targeted the ones with Black Ribbons, given to them for their bravery during 9/11?
I am sorry if we see things differently, I try to look at everything as a whole and in patterns. Everything we do in life and happens in life, there is a pattern behind it.
SO the guy's a "SNITCH". How adult of him. Probably likes to dress up in SWAT uniforms too. Overcompensating for a 1 inch .....
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