New DOD Documents
We recently received the last batch of a FOIA submitted years ago for any emails in the account of a DARPA official named Christopher Schneck (who I believe also has a role with Cyber Command). Our request was for any emails sent to or from:
Angelos Keromytis (DARPA/Georgia Tech)
Manos Antonakakis (Georgia Tech)
David Dagon (Georgia Tech)
Rodney Joffe (Neustar, Packet Forensics, others)
Tejas Patel (DARPA, Kudu)
between 2016 and 2022.
So these documents reveal an NCIS report on a compromise, and a presentation on DARPA’s SMOKE program, which Georgia Tech was involved with.
They didn’t redact anything on the SMOKE presentation which I always appreciate.
Equation Group is an interesting subject, it’s suggested to be a unit of the NSA. We also know our friendly cyber researchers were involved in the investigation of Hal Martin and the stolen NSA tools during 2016.
Generally interesting documents, but not much worth calling out beyond that.
Here are the documents.
Huh? Is this supposed to mean something? Is this supposed to add a new piece to the puzzle? If so, I’m lost. I have no idea why you sent out this email.
~ "Unwitting Association"? Equation Group & Enhanced Attribution are the methodological efforts to tie foreign actor Z w/actor A it appears. Helpful if the world now has access to CIA tools that can feign delivery from anywhere. Probably necessary or useful if your standard of proof relies on "Assessments" rather than evidence, as Brennen, Clapper & Wray have reminded us. However for domestic law enforcement mostly used for smear campaigns and the Censorship Industrial complex (think Hamilton 68 on federal steroids).
Also shows another aspect of the academia military industrial complex which was Eisenhowers original framing of it. ~