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Trapwire Inc. (. English noose snare ) is a security company in the United States (headquarters: Reston , Virginia ) that the fight against terrorism video surveillance in the US and the UK coordinated. TrapWire is also the name of the software. The monitoring system has existed since 2003.

function

The system monitors local traffic , public spaces, but also hotels and casinos. In the New York City subway stations alone , 500 surveillance cameras are to be automatically evaluated for "suspicious" behavior.

The way it works was described by the company's employees as follows:

"Reports of suspicious movements from all facilities in the TrapWire network are linked in a central database and run through a pattern recognition that looks for evidence of terrorist spying on the scene or other preparations for attacks."

In August 2012, WikiLeaks published emails from Stratfor , making the TrapWire surveillance network, which had existed for years, public. As a result, there were distributed denial-of-service attacks against the WikiLeaks website, which lasted for several days.

Network activists called for a global day of protest against INDECT and TrapWire on October 20, 2012 .

References to other Abraxas engagements

TrapWire Inc. is owned by Abraxas Corporation , whose owner Cubic Corporation acquired the company in November 2010 for cash of US $ 124,000,000 . One of the prerequisites for the transaction was to outsource all activities associated with the TrapWire software in advance so that they are not associated with the name Abraxas in any way.

In May 2008, Abraxas Corporation acquired Anonymizer , an anonymization service used by political activists, among others, worldwide.

Web links

• TrapWire
• Time online: TrapWire spies on citizens on a large scale
• Summary of Wikileaks Publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} US company networks video surveillance. In: Spiegel Online. August 13, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2012 (German). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} "Trapwire" monitoring system. Trap wire for America. In: FAZ online. August 12, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2012 (German). 
3. ^ TrapWire website. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 13, 2012 ; Retrieved August 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system. In: Russia Today. August 10, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Heise Newsticker on August 11, 2012: Wikileaks after Trapwire publication under DDoS attack. Retrieved on August 14, 2012 (German). 
6. ↑ INDECT is only a symptom - EU research needs effective control! Netzpolitik.org of October 9, 2012, accessed on March 4, 2019
7. ↑ After INDECT, the second spy network welt.de follows , accessed on March 4, 2019
8. ↑ cf. z. B. Breaking: Trapwire surveillance linked to Anonymizer and transport smart cards ( Memento from August 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ TrapWire and Stratfor are business partners - documentary evidence ( Memento from August 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Wikileaks uncovers TrapWire surveillance: FAQ zdnet.com August 14, 2012 , accessed on August 15, 2012
11. ^ Abraxas Corporation acquires Anonymizer, Inc.
12. ↑ Breaking: Trapwire surveillance linked to Anonymizer and transport smart cards ( Memento from August 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Abraxas and Trapwire: the technology and personnel revealed ( Memento of August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )