Dissident Veteran For Peace: The Clowns (or is it Agents?) of TTPO

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Sunday, March 10, 2019

The Clowns (or is it Agents?) of TTPO

Okay, as it turns out, not only are the clowns or agents of "The Three Percenters - Original" (TTPO) communicating with their supporters and members through the privacy/communications security nightmare that is Facebook, they are also using a foreign company with deep links to the intelligence services of a foreign country for their web development and maintenance. As you can see from the screenshots below, TTPO web site was built using Wix, an Israeli company, and TTPO uses Wix domain name servers. TTPO also stores files, such as their bylaws, on Wix servers.

As reported by TechCrunch "technology companies, such as CheckPoint, Imperva, Nice, Gilat, Waze, Trusteer, and Wix all have their roots in" Unit 8200. Unit 8200 is "the cyberwarfare division of the Israeli Defense Forces." As TechCrunch reports Unit 8200's "technologists work directly with their 'customers' (the intelligence officers). All of the unit's technology systems, from analytics to data mining, intercept, and intelligence management, are designed and built in-house."

According to Forbes, quoting Yair Cohen, a 33-year Unit 8200 veteran, "90% of the intelligence material in Israel is coming from 8200" and "There isn't a major operation, from the Mossad or any intelligence security agency, that 8200 is not involved in."

Wix is known to have been used by BlackCube to carry out operations against US targets. And if you think that Wix has no ongoing relationship with Israeli intelligence then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.

As I pointed out previously, TTPO is a target of the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League, which has been known to maintain extensive intelligence files on its target that it also shares. Israel has major espionage efforts directed at US government and American civilian targets.

So why doesn't TTPO take steps to harden its communications methods and platforms against known and potential risks and hostile actors? Why do they just hand over their internet comms and meta data on a silver platter? Perhaps, they don't really mean it when they say: "Our goal is to utilize the failsafes put in place by our founders to rein in an overreaching government and push back against tyranny." Perhaps they're just clowning. Perhaps they've been compromised.

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