one in four US hackers 'is an fbi informer'

from guardian: The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such success in forcing online criminals to co-operate with their investigations through the threat of long prison sentences that they have managed to create an army of informants deep inside the hacking community.

In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have been run by hacker turncoats acting as FBI moles. In others, undercover FBI agents posing as "carders" – hackers specialising in ID theft – have themselves taken over the management of crime forums, using the intelligence gathered to put dozens of people behind bars.

So ubiquitous has the FBI informant network become that Eric Corley, who publishes the hacker quarterly, 2600, has estimated that 25% of hackers in the US may have been recruited by the federal authorities to be their eyes and ears. "Owing to the harsh penalties involved and the relative inexperience with the law that many hackers have, they are rather susceptible to intimidation," Corley told the Guardian.

"It makes for very tense relationships," said John Young, who runs Cryptome, a website depository for secret documents along the lines of WikiLeaks. "There are dozens and dozens of hackers who have been shopped by people they thought they trusted."

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fukushima haarp nuclear attack by cia, doe & bp

In an Exopolitics TV interview, often paired Alfred Labremont Webre interviews radiation expert Leuren Moret on planet Earth as a weapon of war. Webre and Moret believe an international war crimes network lies behind many of the recent HAARP-triggered "natural disasters", including Fukushima. Moret fingers perps in network: the CIA, Department of Energy (DOE) and BP as tools used by London bankers. Moret's highly developed worldview sees London bankers and Queen of England at epicenter of power in Western world.


A murky international war crimes network seeks by means of depop agendas the goal of land and resource grabs. Moret also believes most natural disasters of past decade are "HAARP events". A list of triggered events include: 9/11 New York, Sumatra quake, Hurricane Katrina and Haiti quake. The radiation expert cites often FEMA's Sept 10, 2001 conference, where the agency ranked most likely disasters as a terrorist attack on New York, an earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane in New Orleans.

Foreshadowing is a concept noted in the interview. Moret finds parallels in these events with prior ones of a similar but smaller scale seen as possible feasibility or "practice runs". US warships were also nearby in these disasters, notes Moret, in an accompanying article by Webre."US Ronald Reagan – As was the case in the HAARP false flag operations of Katrina hurricane, the Haiti earthquake, and the Sumatra earthquake-tsunami, U.S. warships such as the U.S. Ronald Reagan, complicit in the false flag operation, stood by the operation and were an operational part of it."

Perhaps, most interesting, Moret fingers the DOE as running the operation in Japan and provides names in the department: Steven Chu and Steven Koonin. Chu acts in China's interest and Koonin, a former BP employee for the London bankers. Queen of England owns BP reminds Moret. It's a global agenda where sovereignty of nation-states seems only an obstacle to large players. Rockefellers, Moret observes, bought into Japan during the rebuilding after World War II, and points out, SONY is not Japanese--it stands for Standard Oil of New York!

In the most tenuous accusation, Moret fingers CIA for developing Stuxnet worm with Israel's MOSSAD. "The false flag operation involved the introduction of the CIA-Mossad developed Stuxnet virus, causing melt-downs in all nuclear cores within 90 minutes, followed by complete coverup. This was aided by intentionally poor design, as though the power plant were from the beginning a giant nuclear weapon." Is it too far-fetched? Has Stuxnet co-opted operations in nuclear plants to turn them into potential dirty nukes?

On a last count, it's hard to believe Moret, who ".. sees big nuclear power expansion plans globally..", as it seems an uphill battle from here to sell nuclear power? Or is it? Will the international war crimes network simply run roughshod over objections to implement their agenda? It can't be discounted!

A criminal network - doing the dirty work for London bankers and the Queen, in a worldwide conspiracy - seems beyond belief. This writer sees actors as Chu and Koonin, whose interests lie outside the country, making the story believable. The "apparently inept" disaster response in Japan, so reminiscent of New Orleans, only contributes to the suspicion that a conspiracy is afoot - and it's global!

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