Smoe interesting things going on
On January 2,
The New York Times wrote about a late night conference call held by Bank of America executives on November 30. The reason for the call was to deal with a statement given by WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange on November 29, where he said that he intended to “take down” a major American bank. The country’s third largest financial institution needed to get the jump on WikiLeaks, so they started scouring thousands of documents, and auditing physical assets.
Shortly after the late night conference call, the email from Hunton and Williams was sent. Booz Allen Hamilton, according to the Times, was the firm brought in to help manage the bank’s internal review.
A month after the proposal for the initial December meeting on WikiLeaks was created, email messages from HBGary Federal show plans for a meeting with Booz Allen Hamilton. The meeting was set after Barr emailed Hunton and Williams about information he was gathering on WikiLeaks and Anonymous. Later, this information would be the direct cause of Anonymous’ attack on HBGary.
[Booz Allen are a spook consultant corp, generally ex-security/welfare people, those people whose firms live at the trough of "security"]
http://www.thetechherald.com/article...inst-WikiLeaks
On Saturday, private security firm HBGary Federal
bragged to the FT that it had discovered who key members of the hacking group Anonymous are. In response, Anonymous
hacked HB Gary Federal and got 44,000 of their emails and made them publicly available.
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/20...enn-greenwald/