After sunset Gulf activity
Royal Australian AF MAMBO60 C-130 Super Hercules and RAF NAG85XT pop up outta Paki
MOOSE74 USAF C-17 out in front of those
CREEP58 USAF C-130 Hercules followed by RAAF BONDI72 C-17 and just up from Al Minhad AB is RAF NAG80XT C-17
Royal Canadian AF RACER28 C-17 departed Ali Al Salem AB Kuwait also heading to Paki
Qatari AF LHOB252 C-17 north over Iran from AL Udeid AB
Italian AF IAM423 767 inbound to Kuwait from Rome departure
Palantir Technologies, Inc sold by co-founder/CEO: $71.10m-Aug 20,23,24
from today
FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data
A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year, prosecutors revealed in a new court filing. The screw-up in the Palantir program — a software created by a sprawling data analytics company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel — was detailed in a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal court case against accused hacker Virgil Griffith. Data recovered from Griffith’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, which was obtained through a federal search warrant in March 2020, was accessed on Palantir for more than a year by at least four FBI employees, all of whom work outside of New York and were not investigating the case, prosecutors wrote. The FBI case agent assigned to Griffith’s case was alerted to the unauthorized access earlier this month, when another agent emailed him and said an analyst accessed the search warrant material on Palantir, according to the letter. “An FBI analyst, in the course of conducting a separate investigation, had identified communications between the defendant and the subject of that other investigation by means of searches on the Platform that accessed the Search Warrant Returns,” the feds wrote in the letter filed Tuesday. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan determined the FBI employees — three analysts and an agent — were able to view the material because it was entered in Palantir through the program’s default settings. “When data is loaded onto the Platform, the default setting is to permit access to the data to other FBI personnel otherwise authorized to access the Platform,” prosecutors wrote in the letter. The material was accessed at least four times from May 2020 to August 2021, according to the letter. The employees who accessed the data told prosecutors that they did not recall using the information in their investigations.
Manhattan prosecutors instructed Palantir employees to delete the data on Aug. 17 and said they do not intend on using the information in their case against Griffith, according to the letter. The mishap could suggest a wider issue with the FBI’s use of Palantir, said Albert Fox Cahn, the founder of Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a privacy and civil rights group. “Since this same issue will happen whenever documents are uploaded with the default settings, and since there doesn’t seem to be any sort of automated notice when they have been improperly accessed, this suggests that it’s happening a lot more than just this one case,” he said. Griffith is accused of violating international sanctions by traveling to North Korea and delivering a speech about cryptocurrency.
He pleaded not guilty after his arrest in 2019 and was subsequently ordered held in jail pending his trial this year, according to court filings.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/25/fbi-palantir-glitch-allowed-unauthorized-access-to-private-data/
Palantir Technologies Inc. builds software platforms for institutions. The Company operates two segments: commercial, which serves customers working in non-government industries, and government, which serves customers that are agencies in the United States federal government and non-United States governments. It has built two software platforms, Palantir Gotham (Gotham) and Palantir Foundry (Foundry). Gotham is a software platform, which is constructed for analysts at defense and intelligence agencies. Gotham enables users to identify patterns hidden within datasets, ranging from signals intelligence sources to reports from informants, and helps the United States and allied military personnel. Foundry creates a central operating system for organization's data. Individual users can integrate and analyze the data. Number of employees : 2 439 people.
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/PALANTIR-TECHNOLOGIES-INC-113108869/company/
Alex Karp is cofounder and CEO of data mining firm Palantir Technologies, which received early backing from CIA investment arm In-Q-Tel. The company does contract work for government agencies like the Department of Defense, the FBI and the Danish National Police. Palantir went public on the New York Stock Exchange in an unusual direct listing process in September 2020. Karp met Palantir cofounder and billionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel while at Stanford Law School. Karp managed money before starting Palantir in 2004, and occasionally teaches meditation classes at the company.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/alexander-karp/?sh=4ef5847a62b5
https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1823951&tc=7&b=2
>>83698 pb Palantir Buys $51 Million in Gold Bars, Accepts Payment in Gold-bnnB'berg
morning frb
Dropping off
RAF RRR6451 C-17 nw from Al Dhafra AB
Back to Gulf for pick ups
RCH690 USAF C-17 se from Spangdahlem AB
RAF RRR2860 Airbus A330 sw from RAF Brize Norton
RCH644 and RCH617 USAF C-17 Globemasters departed from Ramstein AFB se
once you go back further than 50 years it is too much of a disconnect for most.
Habs that problem tryin' to 'splain the FED.
Most just nod and then to the next subject.
Can't even get to the DC act of 1871 and it's glossed over eyes
They cannot fathom it's been going on for that long (cause dat is a LONG time for them-kek)...but really much longer.
yep...dat's usually the response
Muh father said dat in 2008 when it was all melting down-given PLENTY of warning
"wut are you gonna do about it?"
All i said was "you'll see eventually....if you want to"
Gulf Activity
MOOSE72 USAF C-17 Globemaster and RAF NAG83XT C-17 goin in wif RAF NAG87XT C-130 Hercules behind departing from Al Minhad AB
Considerably slower today-either they are not turning on or the pace of evacs has slowed.
Second largest US mortgage lender accepting Bitcoin: 'We’re just giving options'
United Wholesale Mortgage CEO says Bitcoin payments won't create added risk for the company
of course not...why would it??-file that under "we din't know"
United Wholesale Mortgage CEO Mat Ishbia discussed his plans to accept Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as payment as soon as the third quarter on "Varney & Co." Wednesday, noting that the move won't create added risk for the company. ‘'We’re just giving options," Ishbia told host Stuart Varney.
The second-largest mortgage lender in the country first announced its plans to accept cryptocurrency for mortgage loans last week during the company’s earnings call, Bitcoin.com reported. "We’ve evaluated the feasibility, and we’re looking forward to being the first mortgage company in America to accept cryptocurrency to satisfy mortgage payments," Ishbia reportedly said during the call. Speaking with Varney on Wednesday, Ishbia said United Wholesale Mortgage is not only going to accept Bitcoin, but is also looking into possibly accepting Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies as well. He stressed, however, that "we’re not going to do every single coin." "We’re going to do it the right way for consumers and for our business, and we think it’s a positive move in the right direction," Ishbia said. shbia noted his company is not directly connected to customers but instead works with mortgage brokers to connect customers and loans. "People do want this," he told Varney, adding that his company has been getting "a lot of requests" and even more since he made the announcement last week.
Ishbia said United Wholesale Mortgage is investigating how to implement cryptocurrency payments in "a safe and positive way for consumers," adding that the company is "partnering with regulators and agencies." "Someone has got to lead the way," he said. "We’ll get through it and then others can follow," he added. "It will be good for consumers at the end of the day."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/second-largest-us-mortgage-accepting-bitcoin-were-just-giving-options