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posted ago by stoic_troll ago by stoic_troll +24 / -0

This has probably been posted elsewhere but this was posted to Twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cidgrad89/status/1330001837961965568 Wikileaks, 2017, CIA hacker base in Frankfurt, Project Kraken:

It describes a project at a covert CIA base in Germany whose job is to build fake programs which are essentially Trojans that infect machines. Kraken, as described in the WikiLeaks drop from 2017, https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/space_31653889.html

Appears to be a task Management program. A task Management Trojan horse to be clear. The notes from retrospectives dropped in WikiLeaks are ridiculously unprofessional reports of "sprint planning" jargon. This is a front.

They use JIRA, as noted in the Kraken fake retros, which is a common tool for managing software development. Interestingly, Dominion also has election poll workers learn JIRA:

https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/VotingSystems/systemsDocumentation/DominionDocumentation.html

From the manual, "Issues that the trainee has with testing can also result in the creation of a new bug or improvement. Defining these issues further expands the trainee’s training, as it teaches him/her how to effectively use Dominion’s issue-tracking system, JIRA, and demonstrates how Dominion’s products and services are developed and improved over time using change management procedures. Using JIRA also exemplifies how each department is interconnected and broadens the trainee’s understanding of each employee’s role within the company."

So, my theory is that the Kraken Trojan horse is either embedded in a local or remote JIRA instance, and employees and poll workers may even unknowingly interact with or activate the Kraken by using the task Management program or somehow infect their USB keys with the Trojan. Either way, it seems like Kraken is code for a Trojan horse program built by the CIA, which is probably what's powering the Hammer and Scorecard vote rigging scheme.

Anyways that's the theory and it aligns with the Frankfurt raid mentioned by Sidney.

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LiberalFatigue 2 points ago +2 / -0

Kraken is obviously the Inslaw software known as the Octopus, aka PROMIS which was kind of a prototype to the NSA spying software and other Big Data (tm) spyware which is so common in today's IT landscape.