Stratfor

“For Mutt, or anyone else, - What's Stratfor predicting for 2007? For the middle east> Far East? Elsewhere?”

“Trouble from the east-north-east light and variable with increasing rowdiness moving in from the north with things becoming darkest when least expected.”

“my strat's for playing killer misic on.....heh heh”

“LOL@ stratdewd.

Stratfor ain't been all that accurate (LOL). Hell the only reason Norm was in Southern Command in 1991 was that they never forsaw a major war in the Desert.”

“I agree XL - (on the LOL, too) - Stratfor/Friedman have had some great hits and some great misses, but they are almost always interesting.”

“They haven't published their 2007 forecast yet. They did publish a piece affirming their 2006 assessment for Al Qaeda, though.
last edited: 1/02/07 2:18:42 PM”

“Thanks Mutt. I think their 2006 forecast came out mid-January.”

“Heard Friedman on O'Reilly's radio show today.

Interesting discussion, though O'reilly kind of tried to simplify and moralize everything Friedman said.

Most of what I heard was about Putin - and his struggle vs. US interests combined with the US struggle vs. Russian interests. Also, O'Reilly sounded ready to hold a major ticker tape parade for Petraeus. He spoke as if victory in Iraq was assured and an MSM conspiracy was hiding it from us.”

“And you expected something different while listing to O'Reilly? lol!”

“It's always fun to see what Wild Bill is selling and how. Sometimes I learn something.hing.

I'm hoping he's right about the surge continuing to play out well - so long as it doesn't lead to triumphalists wanting to setting unrealistic goals.”

“LONDON (AP) -- The loose-knit hacking movement "Anonymous" claimed Sunday to have stolen thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to clients of U.S.-based security think tank Stratfor. One hacker said the goal was to pilfer funds from individuals' accounts to give away as Christmas donations, and some victims confirmed unauthorized transactions linked to their credit cards.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/anonymous-hackers-target-us-security-190846138.html”

“Hey violin, Anonmous is all mixed up with those Occutards you like so much.... that's weird”

“I'm on Stratfor's free email service - I got their announcements about being hacked.”

“Boston (Reuters) - Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous group published hundreds of thousands of email addresses belonging to subscribers of private intelligence analysis firm Strategic Forecasting Inc along with thousands of customer credit card numbers.

The lists, which were published on the Internet late on Thursday, included information on people including former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former CIA Director Jim Woolsey. They could not be reached for comment.

The lists included information on large numbers of people working for big corporations, the U.S. military and major defense contractors - which attackers could potentially use to target them with virus-tainted emails in an approach known as "spear phishing."

The Antisec faction of Anonymous disclosed last weekend that it had hacked into the firm, which is widely known as Stratfor and is dubbed a "shadow CIA" because it gathers non-classified intelligence on international crises.

The hackers had promised that the release of the stolen data would cause "mayhem." A spokesperson for the group said via Twitter that yet-to-be-published emails from the firm would show "Stratfor is not the 'harmless company' it tries to paint itself as."

Antisec has not disclosed when it will release those emails, but security analysts said they could contain information that could be embarrassing for the U.S. government.

"Those emails are going to be dynamite and may provide a lot of useful information to adversaries of the U.S. government," said Jeffrey Carr, chief executive of Taia Global Inc and author of the book "Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld."


http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/Deals/idUSTRE7BT10Z20111230?irpc=932”

“Another nefarious OWS connection that no one will acknowledge.....

Weird weird weird”

“It is not "widely known" that Stratfor is a "shadow CIA" because that stupid rumor was started by a dipsh*t sensationalist article a decade ago.

Stratfor is NOT another HBGary, and Antisec has mud on its face. It was simply a soft target of opportunity, illuminating anonymous' continuing downward spiral into petty criminality. Their ideological justification of the hack is a complete joke.”

“Totally amazing.”

“The "mods" sure rushed to protect their pet. LOL”

“Did you cancel your credit cards yet, mutt?”

“Not yet, keeping a close eye on my account though.”

“Having had Stratfor on my map for a while, I think it is clear that it has some CIA connected sources - some of this may be because the CIA tries to influence their analysis. I'm not sure what it would mean for them to be a "shadow CIA" - but I can't think of a way that it would be accurate.”

“It's pretty simple what they want. Chaos, just like wikkileaks, it's all about the chaos.”

“Of course they have ties with the intelligence community. Not just here, but in many other countries.”

“agreed.”

“Anon continues to hack Stratfor - sending out bizarre emails from "george.friedman@stratfor.com"

Here's one I got with the heading "Rate Stratfor's Incident Response":

For the video announcement, please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Read full press release: http://bolt.thexfil.es/84e9h!t
Rate Stratfor's incident response: http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/9055/butthurtreportform.jpg

Hello loyal Stratfor clients,

We are still working to get our website secure and back up and running again as soon as possible.

To show our appreciation for your continued support, we will be making available all of our premium content *as a free service* from now on.

We would like to hear from our loyal client base as to our handling of the recent intrusion by those deranged, sexually deviant criminal hacker terrorist masterminds. Please fill out the following form and return it to me

My mobile: 512-658-3152
My home phone: 512-894-0125”

“Ah, so that is what is in that email. I didn't open it.”

“I'd like to see them go full hacker and expose some Russian officials.”

“No violin, nobody wants to see the poster you have on the ceiling over your bed......not that there's anything wrong with that...”

“...the hackers prolly are Russian officials..”

“What a world we live in? You have to steal the truth, else you live with the lies and the government is the only one who can legally have spies. gawd bless Anonymous.”

“This could get interesting.”

“Michael Hastings is on the beat, stay tuned, this'll bring some big boyz down hard.”

“Anyone who subscribes to Stratfor is a fool wasting their money.”

“Anyone who subscribes to anything on the internet is a fool wasting their money.”

“I subscribe to Squeaker John Bonehead's, 'The Roaming Cathoholic's Drink and Sloppy Golf Digest.' It's not a waste, it just always wasted.”