Three Suits and Spooks Courses taught by 3 World-Renowned Experts: Limited Enrollment and Savings!

At Suits and Spooks events, we always have world-class speakers. But for 2014, I wanted to offer world-class training as well. For example, in January we're featuring:

CARMEN MEDINA: Specialist leader at Deloitte Consulting LLP after retiring from an almost 32 years-career at the Central Intelligence Agency where her roles included Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence (CSI); the Deputy Director for Intelligence, and Chief of the Strategic Assessments Group in the Office of Transnational Issues, Directorate of Intelligence. She has led analysts working on Southern Africa and Central America, and helped to design the Global Coverage Program and innovate new production methods to support policymakers. In the early 1990s, she served overseas in Western Europe.

Course title: "Analytic Methodology and Critical Thinking for Cyber Intelligence and Information Security"

LANCE COTTRELL: Chief Scientist at Ntrepid Corp. and the founder and principal at Obscura Security. He founded Anonymizer Inc. in 1995, and is an internationally recognized expert in cryptography‚ online privacy‚ and Internet security.

Course title: "Tools, Techniques, and Pitfalls in Internet Anonymity and Pseudonymity"

ROB DUBOIS: Security advisor, smart power authority and retired U.S. Navy SEAL with experience in more than thirty nations. He recently served as the operations manager for the Department of Defense Red Team where his innovative tactics earned him the reputation of the U.S.’s “top terrorist”. Rob has provided his “Think like the Adversary” workshop to elite military units in combat zones, Fortune 500 companies, and agencies including the National Counterterrorism Center.

Course title: "Better Red than Dead: Learn to build your own full-spectrum Red Team with a veteran Red Team leader"

Originally, in order to attend a workshop you needed to also register for the conference. I've changed that policy so now you can take the training without having to register for Suits and Spooks DC, or you can register for both. Basically, it's now your choice.

Finally, in order to help us fill up these courses so as to have a more effective test on whether this is something that we continue to offer at Suits and Spooks events, I've lowered the tuition by 33% on all 3 courses until December 20th.

You can get complete details on each course by clicking on the course title, or call us with any questions you may have. Please help spread the word about this unique opportunity to learn from these highly esteemed professionals. Depending on our enrollment numbers, it may be the only time that we offer it.

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A Suits and Spooks Collision in Washington DC

No, President Obama didn't authorize a CIA direct action against House Tea Party members who are keeping the government closed. The "Collision" that I'm talking about is the Suits and Spooks event that is happening in Washington DC on January 19-21. Some of you know that I've been reluctant to call it a "conference" ever since I created this event in 2011. Finally, thanks to my friend Jim Stogdill at O'Reilly Media, I've got a new name for it - a collision.

It's the perfect word because that's precisely what happens during many of the talks. It's not a Summit where high profile speakers get to express their opinions without the opportunity for audience members to question them. Our speakers understand that the content of their talks can be challenged at any time by the attendees. And since we keep our total attendance capped to under 150 and keep all of the sessions on a single track, there's a lot of interaction taking place that just doesn't happen at any other event. In fact, when you consider who some of our speakers are, that's a remarkable thing to experience.

Here are just a few of the 25 or so high profile speakers that we've lined up for SNS DC:

• Barbara M. Hunt: Co-founder of Cutting Edge C.A. who was formerly the Director for Capabilities of Tailored Access Operations at NSA as well as a 20 year veteran technical expert at CIA
• David Howe: CEO at Civitas Group; formerly Special Assistant to the President (Homeland Security Council)
• Carmen Medina: Career senior national security executive at CIA (retired). Assignments included Director for the Center of the Study of Intelligence; Deputy Director of  Intelligence; and Chief of the Strategic Assessments Group, Office of Transnational Issues, Directorate of Intelligence.
• Eric O’Neill: Attorney and co-founder, The Georgetown Group; former FBI operative who was instrumental in the Robert Hanssen espionage case.
• John Gilkes: Principal, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services; more than twenty years experience in asset tracing and recovery and in the management and conduct of financial/fraud investigations involving wire transfer fraud, bribery/corruption, and extortion.
• Steven Chabinsky: General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer at CrowdStrike; Previously Deputy Ass’t Director Cyber at FBI
• Stewart Baker: Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP; Previously Ass’t Secretary for Policy at DHS

Another first for Suits and Spooks DC 2014 will be our workshops. We're not a hacker con so you won't find the workshops that you're accustomed to at Blackhat and other events. That's because there's more to cyber security than malware alone. We'll be offering four workshops in January:

• Lance Cottrell, the founder of Anonymizer, will teach a half-day workshop on Internet Anonymity and Pseudonymity.
• Rob DuBois, a retired Navy SEAL and former director of operations for the Dept of Defense Red Team will teach a full-day course on how to train and operate a full spectrum red team.
• Carmen Medina, a former Deputy Director of Intelligence at CIA will teach a half-day course on analytic methods.
• Phil Rosenberg and John Gilkes will teach a course on financial fraud investigations and money laundering.

Registration for SNS DC is now open and we're already 25% full. Registration for the workshops is currently open for Lance Cottrell's topic and the others should be ready by next week (separate tuition is charged for the workshops). Here's the link for the SNS DC webpage. See you in January.

And if you're interested in having your company become a sponsor, please shoot me an email. 

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U.S. superiority in network-centric warfighting may be in jeopardy. Join the discussion.

Network-centric Warfare has become the de facto standard for many nations, not just the U.S. Unfortunately, thanks to the exponential growth of global networks and the accompanying security vulnerabilities which seem to be infinite in number, the balance of power is no longer what it used to be and the U.S. cannot be assured of superiority in cyberspace.

Therefore, I think it's time that we had an indepth discussion on exactly how the InfoSec community can play a part in improving U.S. capabilities in Network-centric warfighting and/or U.S. covert actions rather than leaving such discussions solely to the classified world or one dominated by the Defense Industrial Base companies. As a result, I've invited 24 distinguished authorities from the DOD and the infosec world to come to San Diego and spend two days engaging in a discussion that will include the following topics, among others:

• "Operational Anonymity & Misattribution: Why you need it, how they track you, how to do it, how it fails, and best practices" - Lance Cottrell
• "Developing Offensive Cyber Tools, Techniques, and Procedures for Defending Corporate and Government Networks" - George Kurtz, Greg Hoglund, Jim Butterworth
• "Is there a place on Special Operations teams for Cyber or Information Warfare specialists?" - Thomas Dzieran, Rob DuBois, Jim Butterworth
• "Vulnerability Disclosure and ‘Cyberwar’: The Cost of Offensive Cyber Weapons" - Ryan Ellis
• Q&A with Kenneth Geers, Ph.D., Technical expert for the Tallinn Manual on the International Law applicable to Cyber Warfare
• "The Georgian Government’s cyber operation against internal political opponents" - Paul Joyal
• "The importance of international collaboration in identifying and interdicting non-state hacker groups" - Sanjay Virmani, Kenneth Geers, Michael Jaeger, Christopher Burgess
• "Projecting Geopolitically Relevant Cyber Hot-Spots" - Ali-Reza Anghaie
• "Threat Intelligence for the Enterprise on a Shoe-string Budget" - Shane MacDougall
• "Can big data and small incident response teams scale down to small and medium-sized businesses?" Steven Cobb
• "Advanced Technologies for Detecting the Insider Threat" - John Sipple
• "The State of National Cyber Intelligence" - Troy Townsend and Jay McAllister
• "All-Source Intelligence Shapes the Future of Security Operations Actions" - (to be announced)

I want to stress that while Suits and Spooks is a conference, it's not like any conference that you've attended before. We actually do have discussions because the speaker to attendee ratio is an unheard-of 1:4 or less. If you don't believe me, check out our testimonials page or ask anyone who's been to our past events.

Here's who you'll get to meet if you attend SNS La Jolla:

• Ali-Reza Anghaie: contract Security Engineer and Senior Analyst with Wikistrat
• David Burcham: President and CEO, VendorX
• Christopher Burgess: Sr. Security Consultant with Fortune 50 experience; retired national intelligence executive CIA
• Stephen Cobb: Security evangelist, ESET North America
• Chris Coleman: Vice President, LookingGlass Cyber Solutions
• Lance Cottrell: Founder / Chief Scientist of Anonymizer Inc., Chief Scientist of Ntrepid Corp.
• Robert DuBois: retired U.S. Navy SEAL, an international authority on Smart Power and the author of "Powerful Peace: A Navy SEAL's lessons on peace from a lifetime at war"
• Thomas Dzieran: retired U.S. Navy SEAL and software engineer
• Kenneth Geers, Ph.D.: U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Cyber Subject Matter Expert
• Will Gragido: Senior Manager, RSA FirstWatch Threat Research
• Greg Hogland: Independent expert in offensive cyber strategies and tactics; former Vice President at Mantech and founder/CEO of HB Gary.
• Michael J. Jaeger (CAPT, USN): An active duty officer with the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps
• Paul Joyal: Managing Director, NSI; Public Safety and Homeland Security Sector
• George Kurtz: Co-founder, President and CEO of Crowdstrike
• Rafal Los: Principal, Strategic Security Services, HP ESS
• Shane MacDougall: Co-founder Tactical Intelligence
• Jay McAllister: Senior Analyst, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; formerly with NCIS
• Jeffrey McNeill, Ph.D.: Cyberspace Policy Analyst, STRATCOM
• John Pirc: Director, Security Intelligence, HP Security Research
• Billy Rios: Technical Director at Cylance, Inc.
• Andy Singer (USN RADM ret): Defense Intelligence Senior Leader; Deputy Director for Information Dominance Advocacy (OPNAV N2/N6)
• John Sipple: USN LT, AFRICOM J2 0166, IDC Region Wash DC
• Troy Townsend: Senior Analyst, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; formerly with DIA and CYBERCOM
• Sanjay Virmani: Director, INTERPOL Digital Crime Centre; Supervisory Special Agent, FBI

Please help spread the word about this exciting and important event and join us in beautiful La Jolla on June 15-16. Register today.

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Who Are The Players in China's Targeting of Foreign Technology IP?

The release of Mandiant's APT1 report claimed that the PLA's Third Directorate (3PLA) is the responsible State organization behind Comment Crew (aka APT1). One of the things that the report's authors didn't do was demonstrate how the other State agencies who engage in this type of activity were excluded in their analysis. For future reference, here's a more complete list of the possible organizations who conduct intelligence activities (including cyber) to consider or rule out in terms of possible Chinese attribution.

Traditional Channels

Civilian

• The Ministry of State Security (MSS) - Counterespionage and Counterintelligence; Foreign Intelligence; Domestic Intelligence
• Ministry of Public Security (MPS) - National Police; Domestic Intelligence

Military

• Second Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Department (2PLA): engages in foreign intelligence, imagery intelligence, and tactical reconnaissance
• Third Department of the PLA General Staff Department (3PLA); engages in signals intelligence
• Fourth Department of the PLA General Staff Department (4PLA); engages in computer network operations
• Liaison Office of the PLA General Political Department
• Intelligence departments of the PLA Navy, PLA Air Force, and Second Artillery
• State Secrecy Bureau

Non-Traditional Channels

• Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND)
• Research Institutes
• PRC Military-Industrial Companies
• Organized Chinese hacker groups

Guidelines:

Failed operations. In Amy Elizabeth Brown's paper "Directed or diffuse?: Chinese human intelligence targeting of US defense technology", she makes the same point that I have made multiple times; e.g., that much of the information we have about Chinese espionage cases (cyber and otherwise) comes solely from failed operations - meaning covert operations that have been discovered. Therefore, we have to acknowledge the possibility that China also runs successful covert operations using more effective tradecraft but we don't know the scope or scale.
3PLA's distributed offices. It's important to note that 3PLA, which was identified in the Mandiant APT1 report has, according to Mattis, offices and technical reconnaissance bureaus in each of China’s seven military regions and several major cities (not only Shanghai).
OSINT is insufficient. Another important statement in Mattis' conclusions is that open sources are insufficient to understand the inner workings of these various intelligence agencies.
Lack of sound tradecraft. "One of the defining characteristics of China’s non-traditional techniques for obtaining technology, as observed in many of the cases noted here, is the lack of clandestine tradecraft, or even the most basic elements of operational security, involved in obtaining the information.  In general, it appears that little or no care is used to ensure that the operation goes undetected." - Amy Brown's "Directed or Diffuse" paper as referenced below.
Giving amateur operatives too much credit. "A belief that the Chinese rely on amateur operatives risks leading CI professionals to dismiss or be inattentive to the threat posed by China’s professional services." - Peter Mattis "The Analytic Challenge" paper as referenced below.
Distinguishing economic espionage from Chinese intelligence. "When economic espionage with no connection to the Chinese intelligence services is interpreted as “Chinese intelligence,” less attention will be paid to what those organizations actually do. The Chinese intelligence services and the Chinese defense industries are distinct entities, although they may sometimes work for mutual benefit." - Peter Mattis (Ibid)

Readers of the Mandiant report or any report that purports to reveal the inner workings of Chinese cyber espionage cases are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the papers referenced below as well as the above guidelines that I've extracted from them. 

For example, the lack of tradecraft by the three individuals mentioned in the Mandiant report is palpable, and was pointed out by the report's authors: "These actors have made poor operational security choices, facilitating our research and allowing us to track their activities. They are some of the authors of APT1's digital weapons and the registrants of APT1 FQDNs and email accounts. These actors have expressed interest in China's cyber warfare efforts, disclosed their locations to be the Pudong New Area of Shanghai, and have even used a Shanghai mobile phone number to register email accounts used in spear phishing campaigns." - Mandiant APT1 report, p. 51

Even if one assumes that the Chinese government is the customer for APT1's cyber espionage activities, it's important to consider all of the options before attempting to assign attribution. Such a lack of tradecraft involved deserves at least a mention in the report that non-traditional channels as defined above were considered. As this article points out, those options are plentiful within China, but also include other foreign intelligence services and professional hacker crews who run their operations from China and/or from Chinese servers in order to confound any efforts at attribution.

Reference Material:

The Analytic Challenge of Understanding Chinese Intelligence Services

Directed or diffuse?: Chinese human intelligence targeting of US defense technology

PRC Intelligence Apparatus - Implications for Foreign Firms

Related Posts:

"Mandiant APT1 Report has critical analytic flaws"

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Please Remember the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation this Holiday Season

There are lots of great charities out there that are deserving of a share of our gift-giving this holiday season (and year-round for that matter). I'd like to introduce you to one of my favorite charitable organizations - the CIA Officers Memorial Foundation.

"The Foundation was established in December 2001 to provide educational support to the children of CIA officers killed in the line of duty. In May 2006, the Foundation's Board of Directors voted to expand its mission to include providing educational support to the spouses of CIA officers killed in the line of duty, and the children and spouses of officers who die on active duty as a result of accident, illness or other causes."

I just received my supporter letter from them and was happy to learn that they've been able to increase their scholarship awards to 28 students for the 2012-2013 academic year ($575,000) from 26 students ($512,000) for the prior year. However, according to their letter, they "still have a long way to go to realize our strategic goals and to sustain our ability to fund programs in the future as education expenses continue to soar and the number of families in need of our support increases."

Please keep this wonderful organization in mind this month as you make your charitable donations in the holiday spirit of giving. Thank you.

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Josh Corman at Suits and Spooks LA: Adapting to the Age of Anonymous

Joshua Corman

I'm very pleased to announce that one of the most respected names and original thinkers in the InfoSec world will be speaking at Suits and Spooks LA on June 29th - Joshua Corman, the Director for Security Intelligence at Akamai Technologies. His topic will be "The Rise of the Chaotic Actor: Adapting to the Age of Anonymous".

Abstract:  "One can't go a week these days without hearing or talking about what Anonymous just did - or what they're planning to do next. While some see these chaotic actors like Anon, LulzSec, and derivatives, as Chaotic Good like Robin Hood... other see these actors as Chaotic Evil like the Joker (see also http://www.csoonline.com/article/682511/the-rise-of-the-chaotic-actor-understanding-anonymous-and-ourselves ). Most of the veterans in the IT Security community have sustained a cognitive dissonance about them. At DEFCON 19, a few of us confronted the issue (and active participants). We found that much of the narrative in the press fails to understand their varied motives, permutations, and evolutions of these pockets of chaotic actors. We also saw the groups are experiencing some of the growing pains and complications we expected them to (and some we didn't) as this saga unfolds. Regardless of our understanding, Chaotic Actors are here to stay - and we must better understand the implications of these powerful factors. Every action has reaction, so we must be conscientious and deliberate about how we adapt to the age of Anonymous."

"Together we'll frame some of the timeline and facts behind this Renaissance of Hacktivitism. We'll get specific about some of the incidents, outcomes, victims and collateral damage left in the wake of those attacks. We'll build upon the insights, discussion, and debates from our DEFCON "Whoever Fights Monsters" panel (including our exchanges on "Building a Better Anonymous"). We'll outline the white paper the panelists crafted post-DEFCON. Last, we'll explore how organizations can intelligently adjust their threat models and risk postures in the face of this developing reality."

Besides Josh, our speakers include Rob DuBois (retired Navy SEAL), former CIA Chief Targeting Officer Nada Bakos, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jason Smolanoff, China intelligence analyst Matt Brazil, and more. The complete speaker list and agenda can be found here. The link to register is below. Be sure to click an arrow to see if any of the pricing options apply to you.

Options

Standard Registration$325.00 USD Pacific Council and InfraGuard$275.00 USD Government$250.00 USD Academia$195.00 USD

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Who Will You Meet At Suits and Spooks LA?

The most exciting part of a Suits and Spooks anti-conference isn't listening to our accomplished and fascinating speakers. It's meeting the other attendees. At last February's DC event, attendees included the founder of GreenPeace and an individual who was almost killed by a Russian assassin involved in the Alexander Litvenenko poisoning. In Los Angeles, attendees will include a career Mossad agent, a C-level executive from a major studio, a hacker that used to work for the IDF, and the creator of numerous "spy" TV shows and movies. Since attendance is usually less than 100 people, you get to spend a lot of time interacting not only with some truly fascinating people but with the speakers as well including retired Navy SEAL Rob DuBois, George Clooney and John Prendergast's Satellite Sentinel Project spokesman Jonathan Hutson, former FBI SSA Jason Smolanoff, China expert Matt Brazil, two former CIA intelligence officers Lisa Chambers and Nada Bakos, Doug Wilson of Mandiant and Jim Hake, the founder and CEO of Spirit of America. You'll also enjoy a lunch prepared by the Bel Air Bay Club chef in a beautiful space overlooking the Pacific ocean; definitely NOT conference cuisine.

Don't miss out or wind up paying more because you didn't get your registration in on time.. The early bird discount for our Los Angeles event is ending on June 1st so get your registration in early and be a part of a truly unique security event.

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Announcing Project Grey Goose - Operation Poachers

I'm pleased to announce that the fourth Project Grey Goose investigation, commencing today, will target the very serious problem of domestic and international poaching of endangered species. I founded Project Grey Goose in August, 2008 as an experiment in crowd-sourcing an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) effort whose goal was to investigate possible Russian government connections in the cyber attacks against Georgian government websites during the Russia Georgia war. Rather than focusing on hackers, this project will focus on criminals who are viciously taking the lives of rare and beautiful animals for body parts and profit; i.e. poachers. The problem is vast and growing, and it's my sincere hope that Project Grey Goose's unique international collaborative approach to OSINT will make an impact.

I'm particularly happy to announce that my co-manager for this project is Nada Bakos, a former CIA intelligence analyst and targeting officer. I can't imagine a more qualified person to help lead this effort than Nada and I'm excited to have her aboard to help this mission succeed.

If you have a passion for helping animals and doing something about the people that harm them, please contact me via email. Include a link to your LinkedIn profile or a recent copy of your CV. Internationally-based volunteers are welcome. Our first report will be issued in 45 days at the Suits and Spooks LA anti-conference. Follow us on Twitter (@ProjGreyGoose).

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Money laundering, Shape shifting, Satellite Spying, and You

When was the last time that you were in a Washington DC conference room with a Hollywood actress, the CISO of In-Q-Tel, two product managers from DARPA, an expert in money laundering, a world-class hacker, a spokesman for George Clooney and John Prendergast's Satellite Sentinel Project, an expert on open source warfare and a former CIA station chief (and that's not all of our speakers)? I'm guessing never because the Suits and Spooks Anti-Conference doesn't follow trends. It breaks them. This one day event will include breakfast, lunch, and a cocktail reception hosted by the Business Executives for National Security (BENS) on the 24th floor of the Waterview Conference Center overlooking the Potomac river and the Capital.

The early bird registration ($395) is coming to a close at the end of business Friday, January 6th. We have extra low rates for U.S. government employees ($295) and for university faculty and students ($195). Everyone who attends will also receive a signed copy of the second edition of my book "Inside Cyber Warfare" (O'Reilly Media 2011). We want to re-shape the way that we think about security and we have room for up to 100 innovative thinkers and decision makers across a multitude of disciplines - NOT just information security. Please be a part of Suits and Spooks in Washington DC next month. The discussions and networking will be truly memorable. Register here today.

Related:
The Use of Covert Cyber Counter Strikes As Active Defense
Spontaneous Analysis of Unstructured Speech for Idea Development using Palantir
George Clooney's Satellite Sentinel Project

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The Rapid Rise and Fall of LulzSec

This is more of a prediction than a statement of fact but I feel pretty confident in saying that LulzSec won't be around for much longer. Anonymous may still avoid LulzSec's fate depending on whether they decide to abandon the AntiSec movement and stay focused on battling repressive regimes like they did with Tunisia, but they only have a small window of time to make that decision.

The reason why I'm making this prediction is because of today's New York Times article on the take-down of DigitalOne.com by the FBI. That's bad enough but it's not why LulzSec is screwed. They're screwed because the U.S. Intelligence Community has learned how to collaborate. It's taken them years but the historical animosity between CIA, FBI, and NSA has just recently diminished to the point where they are now able to work together better than ever before. And lucky LulzSec, they're all focused on you right now.

Now you might not be too worried about the FBI considering the state of their InfraGuard sites in Atlanta and Connecticut, and you might even be naive enough to believe that crashing the CIA's public website means you have nothing to fear from them either. Frankly speaking, if that's true - you couldn't be more wrong. Unlike the FBI and your local police, CIA isn't constrained by the same rules. It has resources that other agencies salivate after, including its own Army, Navy, and Air Force. It's people love what they do so much that even after they retire they stay in the game. And while Anonymous likes to say that they never forget, the Agency has a well-deserved reputation of getting even with anyone who fucks with them. You, apparently, have made that very unfortunate list. If you guys make it to Labor Day without either getting arrested, disappearing, or self-destructing, I'll be very surprised. Either way, you'll be featured in the new edition of my book for sure.

UPDATE: (25 Jun 2011) LulzSec announces it has ended operations via a post at Pastebin:

1. Friends around the globe,
3. We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.
5. For the past 50 days we've been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could. All to selflessly entertain others - vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. It's what we all crave, even the seemingly lifeless politicians and emotionless, middle-aged self-titled failures. You are not failures. You have not blown away. You can get what you want and you are worth having it, believe in yourself.
7. While we are responsible for everything that The Lulz Boat is, we are not tied to this identity permanently. Behind this jolly visage of rainbows and top hats, we are people. People with a preference for music, a preference for food; we have varying taste in clothes and television, we are just like you. Even Hitler and Osama Bin Laden had these unique variations and style, and isn't that interesting to know? The mediocre painter turned supervillain liked cats more than we did.
9. Again, behind the mask, behind the insanity and mayhem, we truly believe in the AntiSec movement. We believe in it so strongly that we brought it back, much to the dismay of those looking for more anarchic lulz. We hope, wish, even beg, that the movement manifests itself into a revolution that can continue on without us. The support we've gathered for it in such a short space of time is truly overwhelming, and not to mention humbling. Please don't stop. Together, united, we can stomp down our common oppressors and imbue ourselves with the power and freedom we deserve.
11. So with those last thoughts, it's time to say bon voyage. Our planned 50 day cruise has expired, and we must now sail into the distance, leaving behind - we hope - inspiration, fear, denial, happiness, approval, disapproval, mockery, embarrassment, thoughtfulness, jealousy, hate, even love. If anything, we hope we had a microscopic impact on someone, somewhere. Anywhere.
13. Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon.
15. Let it flow...
17. Lulz Security - our crew of six wishes you a happy 2011, and a shout-out to all of our battlefleet members and supporters across the globe

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Justice Wins. Bin Laden is Dead.

It took 10 years, a new President, and the stellar collaborative work of the U.S. Intelligence Community to enable the success of the military operation against Osama bin Laden. Congratulations to all of the people whose names we'll never know that led to this momentous event of justice and vindication. We're so quick to judge intelligence failures that become public knowledge while the successes rarely make the news. Not only is this an intelligence success for CIA, NSA, and other agencies, it's vindication for President Obama's strategy to re-focus on capturing or killing Osama bin Laden in spite of political pressure to quit. I'm proud of everyone involved, and hugely grateful.

Related Links:

Timeline: The Intelligence Work Behind Bin Laden's Death
Latest on the Osama Raid: Tricked-Out Choppers, Live Tweets, Possible Pakistani Casualties
The Secret Team That Killed bin Laden

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