Trapwire Stratfor Email 17

From: "Aaron C. Pigeon"
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:35:31 -0500
To: Fred Burton
Subject: Re: More for the blog
posted

http://fredburton.posterous.com/new-surveillance-tool-for-interrupting-terror
On 9/22/10 1:47 PM, Fred Burton wrote:


This week, 500 surveillance cameras were activated on the NYC subway
system to focus on pre-operational terrorist surveillance. The
surveillance technology is also operational on high-value targets (HVTs)
in DC, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and London and is called TrapWire
(www.abraxasapps.com). TrapWire is one of the most innovative tools
developed since 9-11 to help mitigate terrorist threats. From a
protective intelligence perspective, TrapWire does have the ability to
share information on suspicious events or suspects between cities.
Operationally, the ability to identify hostile surveillance at one
target set -- in multiple cities -- can be used to neutralize terror
threats by interrupting the attack cycle. Meaning, a suspect
conducting surveillance of the NYC subway can also be spotted by
TrapWire conducting similar activity at the DC subway, connecting the
infamous dots. An additional benefit of TrapWire is that the system can
also be used to help "walk back the cat" after an attack to identify
terrorist suspects and modus operandi. I can also see the tool being
very effective in identifying general street crime.



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Aaron C. Pigeon

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