Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Inside view of IATT..

Photo by Gerald, CR 2008

Inside view of IATT.
Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

By Gerald: Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

Sept 26, 08

Some questions I get asked often so I would like to answer two of the Q.

#1)

I've been asked if this kind of work is dangerous, and it can be, and one must take

extraordinary precautions. But is is much less dangerous than what US Troops face.

I'll stand in the path of the Enemy line.
I Feel no fear. Cyber warrior

#2) What is the work like?

First and primary : our profession: Commercial competitive Intelligence services

Secondary is our anti-terrorist Battalion, which fits our Primary mission activities like

interlaced fingers.

To start:

Get report from Watch officer:

Link on to Operations Encrypted IM
Deploy cyber sidearm
Check security logs

Review G2 reports.

Check Email;

Check mole communications;

Read Tips line.

Check sources.

Beltway

Foreign

Review all Companys comm.

Collect and collate over night Co. Ops.

Check chatter and background noise.

Read Bsu Feeds

Read black boxes.

Read news feed

Collect OSINT

Read site demographics.

Check tracking movements

Check Cell activity.

Start G2 report

collate data.

Develop Paradigm Intel

Estimate force composition for the day, deploy ops on new Intel.

Activate or kill BSU's.

Black BSU's ( Bot Surveillance Units )

Start writing days post.

Check RSS of fav blogs.

Over watch for days ops.
Prepare 5 paragraph Cyber field orders
for each Ops. Issue orders.
Run Ops and track rest.
Company on patrol HERE.

While Ops running I,

Track news.

It is very addictive, and a real rush when Intel strings lead to actionable Intel.

I over see a group of very dedicated genius teams, which don't know each other,

and often work just a part of the op. I've burned out some Genius Analysts and cyber officers.

Sometimes its like the movies, without the music, hense my juke box.

Other times its dull and boring, another exciting part is when we come up with Intel

that adds a new dimension to a public news story.

Other times one puts out bait and may have to wait weeks for results.

Waiting is very hard, almost painful.

But waiting is also the professional part, not pushing anything too soon,

processing intel and discovering its best use, and forming its context into a paradigm

can be like chess, Which I've played for 45 years.

Planning ops one tries to plan for all contingencies, burns and even infiltrations.

We do have double agents among us, who have penetrated us and we are aware of them

and find ways to use them.

Some times hot items come right out of the blue, totally unexpected.

A simple routine op may turn up a HVT.

And we may work 24/7 to set up a op to exploit the Intel and wait 2 weeks

or 2 months, for the target to act.

The smallest piece of OSINT may fill in the biggest piece to an Intel op.

After action activities include setting up BSU to track news related to the target to

see what the feds do with the Intel. Or track metrics related to the target.

We publicly report about 5% of our ops, carefully screened to avoid opsec.

And to complete the operation.

Paradigm Intel plays a big part in fitting the pieces together and

planning ops, and pulling data out of a closed cell.

The data flow is substantial and one constantly works to turn it into knowledge.

And fit it into paradigms.

It is a cross between a computer game a movie and a puzzle.( will be very good at this Game: )

Often working till 3 or 4 am my time, daylight time for the Terrorist on the other side of the world.

The ability to stream data 24/7 of interest to ones project is addictive,

sometimes its a flood of sweet on target data, other times one could die of thirst just nothing

coming in. And thats when we send out recon teams. Or steer moles.

If I want to know something I can get, it if it is knowable, if not, I can get a 'READ'

on the subject and a good feel for what I want to know.

Part of the challenge is knowing what to work on, what targets are do-able.

Even figuring out just what to do can be daunting.

In general the Internet tells you what to do, the data streams point the direction.

In developing posts often it is a question of censorship, selecting what is relevant, educational

or countering propaganda. Do we have an "exclusive" that doesn't break our opsec, or do we post

others material with our new Intel added to the story.

I get withdrawal if I'm away from the data stream to long. it taste so SWEET.

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Gerald

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