Thread: Bank Of America Sets Up Swat Team To Combat Wikileaks

Bank Of America Sets Up Swat Team To Combat Wikileaks
Courtney Comstock | Dec. 2, 2010, 3:42 PM | 7,161 | comment 21



SWAT Team Police Shield

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Bank of America has set up a swat team to combat Wikileaks in case it is, as suspected, the target of the next leak, says Charlie Gasparino.

The FOXBusiness news reporter just tweeted:

Bank of America sets up Legal Swat team to combat Wikileaks in case it is the target.

If the rumors are true, Bank of America may really need it.

Earlier this week, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said the leak could "take down one or two banks."

And soon after, we recalled an interview with Assange from last year, in which he said:

"At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive's hard drives. Now how do we present that? It's a difficult problem. We could just dump it all into one giant Zip file, but we know for a fact that has limited impact. To have impact, it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search it and get something out of it."

His comment in the interview makes it highly likely that Bank of America will indeed be the bank targeted in the next Wikileaks drop, which is expected early next year.


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Kathyet

No matter what one feels about the Wikileaks, I think the more that the U.S. Government gets shamed the better being that Bank of America, takes our tax money and what do they do with it in Ca. State? I tell ya what. Bank of America was the only bank, to issue out credit cards to illegal aliens. Due to Bank of America, illegal aliens can open up bank accounts with no papers all acorss the U.S. and illegal aliens are able to get bank mortgages, secured by U.S. Tax Payers, for homes, which are now all forclosed on and we are paying for these homes.
When Bank of American started opening up mass banks in Westchester county N.Y., all of a sudden all the meixcans flocked there and now some areas have a 15% illegal alien population. Illegal aliens even have homes, of course it is 20 of them, in some very exclusive areas of New York like Tarrytown in Westchester County over Manhattan and now these homes are foreclosed on. This all started under Bush jr.
So, the U.S. Gov is nothing but pure corruption.

Originally Posted by Creoleguy32

No matter what one feels about the Wikileaks, I think the more that the U.S. Government gets shamed the better being that Bank of America, takes our tax money and what do they do with it in Ca. State? I tell ya what. Bank of America was the only bank, to issue out credit cards to illegal aliens. Due to Bank of America, illegal aliens can open up bank accounts with no papers all acorss the U.S. and illegal aliens are able to get bank mortgages, secured by U.S. Tax Payers, for homes, which are now all forclosed on and we are paying for these homes.
When Bank of American started opening up mass banks in Westchester county N.Y., all of a sudden all the meixcans flocked there and now some areas have a 15% illegal alien population. Illegal aliens even have homes, of course it is 20 of them, in some very exclusive areas of New York like Tarrytown in Westchester County over Manhattan and now these homes are foreclosed on. This all started under Bush jr.
So, the U.S. Gov is nothing but pure corruption.

I am loving it..hereismorefromCATO


It's a WikiLeaks World, Get Used to It

by Jim Harper

Jim Harper is director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute.

Added to cato.org on August 5, 2010

This article appeared on AOL News on August 5, 2010.


No matter where right or wrong lie in the posting of classified military reports on WikiLeaks.org, one lesson should be clear: This is how it's going to be. Technology will continue to undercut secrecy — not just in the military, but in all large organizations.

Government and corporate leaders who aren't ahead of this problem may already have trouble on their hands they don't know about.

When 90,000 pages of documents chronicling the Afghan war went online last week, their potential effects on military planning and security caused the White House to strongly condemn their posting as "irresponsible." Differing more than slightly, Salon commentator Glenn Greenwald praised WikiLeaks.org as "one of the most valuable and important organizations in the world."

Technology will continue to undercut secrecy — not just in the military, but in all large organizations.

While there is universal agreement that over-classification in the U.S. government is a problem, leaking government documents isn't a good way to fix it. Nevertheless, a pair of related technology trends will continue to push this "fix" in a disorderly way if it's not solved methodically.

Technology: First, individuals today have tremendous power to collect, transmit and process information. Average people have hand-held computers and phones, huge-capacity flash memory thumb drives, and so on. The tech-savvy have even more powerful information devices, familiarity with encryption, and anonymization tools. We have overcome the natural conditions that made easy-to-censor hand-written letters a minimal threat to "operational security" in World War II.

Culture: Cultural trends are coming into play as well. Military service-members today live in a culture of information sharing that might baffle their senior officers. They expect to be in touch with the outside world during their tours. Their service is long and difficult enough without quarantining them in a communications bubble for protracted periods. Indeed, doing so would undermine military effectiveness by cutting deeply into the morale of young men and women whose stateside lives are "always connected." This is the generation that knows the value and power of sharing information.

So what's to be done?

Doubling down on information security is an option, but there are better approaches than to hunker in the secrecy corner.

As Admiral Greer said in Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October: "The likelihood of a secret being blown is proportional to the square of the number of people who're in on it." It's a converse of Metcalfe's law, which describes the increase in value of a network as the number of participants grows.

Computer security has wisdom to share with national security and military security — indeed, with any organization that relies too heavily on secrecy: "You're doing it wrong." Secrecy should be treated as a weakness, to be avoided whenever possible.

Since at least the Vietnam-era controversy over the accuracy of U.S. government "body counts," it's been getting harder to control military information, and the difficulty will only increase. Secrecy is sometimes necessary, and propaganda is a legitimate dimension of war, but as technology and tools of transparency make their way even to remote battlefields, secrecy and propaganda that are at odds with the evidence on the ground will necessarily be less effective.

Jim Harper is director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute.
More by Jim Harper

Organizations of any size should examine what information they have that is not publicly available, and how they would be harmed by its release.

Ultimately, the U.S. military and all organizations, government and corporate, should begin to plan strategy and tactics so that they don't rely on controlling information — at least not for long after it originates.

Information technology is a strong and growing adversary, and it is better to turn its strengths to one's advantage than to waste resources trying to fight against it.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12035



My feeling is :

Personally I think the best answer is don't something you may have to answer for later!!!



Kathyet

The too big to fail banksters routinely redline target financially rape the low income population for excessive fees with their shenanigans - the population that is too ill, too old, too physically or mentally challenged or simply too poor to fight them. They are too powerful for any politician to take them on for this behavior apparently. So I'm not crying.

How many seniors I wonder, dare not cry out for help from this criminality for fear of being labeled senile and incompetent by those who don't get it?