Georgia Tech Doc Review - Part Two
Continuing with our document review.
Side note: New FOIA’s are expected back soon, including production from DARPA related to one of our FOIA lawsuits. Most of the FOIA’s on the lawsuit had no issues, they did tell me that the DOD found no contracts with Packet Forensics which is just silly. There are dozens of news articles referencing the contracts with Packet Forensics, and there’s plenty of other information contradicting them with PF plainly listed on the HACCS contract. We pushed back on that, but that’s the kind of frustrating grind that our FOIA system involves.
Here is a weird one we discussed in the spring.
Here, Manos is clearly referencing Rodney Joffe but as we see, Joffe is blind-copied on the email. This might be an email somewhat inappropriate to send unencrypted using public email accounts, because they are talking about SUNBURST, which relates to a piece of code used in the SolarWinds hack. Exposing the people investigating that was a bad idea. The SolarWinds hack is alleged to have been done by APT-29 (“Cozy Bear”), and was still very much in flux at the time of the email. References to “a few other important USG networks” and to Joffe’s data are notable here. Unclear on what “SLD” means.
This next one is worth revisiting in the wake of Senator Wyden’s letter where he noted that as of September 2022 Neustar told his staff they were no longer selling data to Georgia Tech. They certainly still were in 2021, including through a Neustar subsidiary called ERP Services which manages their “sensitive contracts.”
Nothing earth shattering on this next one other than to help show the breadth of the Enhanced Attribution project, which obviously includes the FBI, NSA, and DOD.
Revisiting the growing scandal around data, it appears Manos and Georgia Tech were getting their hands on data from everyone:
Lastly for tonight, we see the data sharing from Neustar to Georgia Tech for use at DARPA being pretty out there. To Senator Wyden’s concerns over customer data and privacy, it doesn’t appear Neustar had any illusions that their customers weren’t about to be data mined and spied on.
More soon.
I’d love to know more about the DARPA ask that so inflamed Rodney. And what’s behind the rage that Joffe has about “DARPA f’ng him over” (inferred from paraphrase). But likely as mundane as USG foot-dragging where contractor proceeds optimistically with assurances from PM and government project account managers could care less about verbal promises over “what’s in the contract”. The BCC exposes the key players in this staged drama.