Wack-a-MoleDicks
This is power: Slowly a case is built from ‘former’ intelligence experts now in ‘private’ industry who predictably provide a steady stream of evidence that can be called upon to prove American Citizens are being controlled by “foreign actors” and must thus be protected by, in the case of Gamestop, preventing them from participating in the “free” market. Keep it in your back pocket until you can decide if Game Stop/crypto/x is helping or hurting your technofeudalism-craft. Every day I hunt for them. It’s fun:
Thank you so much for joining us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path? I saw the potential disruptive role social media was likely to play back in 2008 when I was running a few programs for US Intelligence agencies. Even then it was a double edged sword both creating opportunities for gathered intelligence but also creating risks for people in the intelligence community that could divulge sensitive information unknowingly via exposed relationships, location check-ins, etc. It fascinated me. - Aaron Barr CTO Founder PiiQ Media (pig?)
Additionally, Aaron Barr served as a naval cryptologist from 1989-2001 in both the Pacific and Atlantic theaters. He led the European Advanced Signals Analysis Laboratories’ COMINT mission from 1998-2001, and was hand-picked for multiple forward-deployed special intelligence collection missions. He has lectured frequently across both government and commercial security conferences about social media and open source collection and analysis. - Piiq
Bots on major social media platforms have been hyping up GameStop Corp and other “meme” stocks, according to an analysis by Massachusetts-based cyber security company PiiQ Media, suggesting organized economic or foreign actors may have played a role in the Reddit-driven trading frenzy. - Reuters
Are there bots? Yes. Did they find bots manipulating Gamestop? Yes. Are bots constantly manipulating everything on Twitter? Yes. If you want to disenfranchise your own citizens then reducing their enjoyments to reactions of foreign bots is always available: “political scientist Harold Cardenas Lema, said Twitter should go after anti-Castro U.S. bots as well as Cuban government ones. Not doing so suggests it is politically biased, he tweeted.” (or was it just a bot?)
Still, you might say, maybe this guy is just an expert we should trust. Ok, let’s take a look at who Aaron Barr is:
2011: Aaron Barr's time in the security industry's spotlight may have finally, mercifully ended. On Monday, the much-tormented chief executive of HBGary Federal announced that he has resigned from his position, three weeks after a hacking scandal that tainted not just his firm, but its partners, clients, and even the U.S. government.
Anonymous posted HBGary's emails in a searchable format, and the ensuing press scrum exposed a darker side to HBGary Federal's business that offered a variety of dirty tricks to its clients. In a proposal intended for Bank of America and written on behalf of a law firm referred to the bank by the U.S. Department of Justice, Barr suggested borderline illegal tactics that aimed at responding to a potential release of the bank's documents by WikiLeaks. Those methods included cyberattacks, misinformation, forged documents, pressuring donors and even blackmailing WikiLeaks supporter and Salon journalist Glenn Greenwald. In another deal, HBGary suggested a similarly shady response to the Chamber of Commerce in its campaign against the Chamber's political opponents including non-profit organizations and unions.
Poor Aaron Barr," added another. "Wait no, that guy was a dick. - Forbes
Or, worse than a dick. A kind of wack-a-moledick who keeps popping up and doing the dirty work of power so he can keep on the wealthy side of oligarchy.