Stratfor hacked
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| Ken Fuller |
Stratfor, the private US “intelligence” company that predicted the downfall of President Estrada is in the news again, as late last month the first 200 of an incredible five million e-mails, illegally hacked from the servers at Stratfor’s Texas headquarters by the collective calling itself Anonymous, were released by WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks says the e-mails will yield details on the workings of the company itself and the links between it and government intelligence services. Among the services offered clients such as Coca-Cola and Dow Chemical is the monitoring of activists. Some clients, however, are military officials from a number of countries.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says that while Stratfor purports to be a media organization beneath the surface, it runs networks of paid informants in operations which make the transgressions of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire look like “kindergarten.” According to London’s Guardian newspaper, one of the e-mails, ostensibly from a private security firm, concerns an apparent assassination attempt on someone in Libya who had been mistaken for a member of the transitional council..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120306com5.html
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