re: #145 Killgore Trout

Thanks, I gave it a skim but the guy seems to be a bit of a nutter. I’m not sure he’s very credible.

You may be right, however Infosec Island is a respected resource among security specialists, so I’d be really surprised to find out that he’s a flake. That’s not to say he might not come off a bit odd, something not uncommon in a super-geeky industry that deals 24/7 with hacking, cryptography, chasing bad guys into the dark recesses of the internet, understanding impossibly complex networks & protocols, etc.

Internal Documents Show the Department of Homeland Security Tried Pretty Hard Not to Monitor Occupy Wall Street (PDF’s at the link)
For now it seems they were very careful about the constitutional limits and were mostly interested in tracking what Anon was up to. Most of that was from publicly available MSM articles. Mos of the other stuff about OWS was discussing how to answer press questions about security at federal buildings and the conspiracy theory that DHS orchestrated the nationwide crackdown on OWS camps (which they didn’t). I did find it interesting that much of the discussion was about protecting protesters rights. It seems they were very careful.

Yes, for now. That’s precisely the part that bothers me. There’s no more firewall, so to speak. As for the rest, I’ve never been an activist/protester sort of gal, so I really didn’t have a lot of interest in OWS to begin with, and haven’t kept up with it.