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Checkered Past of FBI Cyber Contractor Who 'Spied' on Trump
Holy Shit anons, Joffe’s company got all IP addresses on January 20, 2021!
…Packet Forensics reportedly landed a recentPentagon contract to manage a large chunk of Internet domains owned by the military. The bid was awarded the day Joe Biden was inaugurated president. The massive cyberspace will allow Joffe’s firm to set up dedicated digital infrastructure, including servers and software, to comb through private Internet traffic for the purported purpose of monitoring suspicious activity.
Joffe’s company alsosells wiretapping equipmentthat allows federal authorities to spy on private web-browsing through fake Internet security certificates, instead of real ones that websites employ to verify secure connections. Once installed, Packet's device lets agents see an individual's online transactions without obtaining a warrant.
Over the past decade, Packet Forensics has landed almost $40 million in federal contracts, according to publicly disclosed contract information. Joffe’s firm counts the FBI and the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, among its customers. The contracts generally involve cybersecurity. Joffe monitors the computers of government officials for threats, including as it turns out, even _investigators in the office of Justice Department OIG Michael Horowitz__, recent court filings reveal.
State incorporation records show that Joffe has created more than two dozen startups across 20 states, some of which have no employees, revenue or even offices.
'Friends in High Places': Joffe’s second-act success in government seems rooted in a simple fact: “He has friends in high places,” proferred a career Justice Department official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, pointed out that Joffe personally advised President Obama on cybersecurity and other issues, and was also close to former FBI Director James Comey.
Secret Service entrance logs reveal Joffe visited the White House several times during the Obama administration. And in 2013, Comey gave Joffe an award recognizing his work helping agents investigate a cybersecurity case. Sources told RCI that Joffe has also worked as an FBI informant on various cybersecurity cases opened by the bureau over roughly the past 15 years.
Sussmann’s attorneys have pointed to that acclaim to explain why Sussmann trusted the findings from Joffe he shared with the FBI. “Far from being a stranger to the FBI, [Joffe] was someone with whom the FBI had a long-standing professional relationship of trust and who was one of the world’s leading experts regarding the kinds of information that Mr. Sussmann provided to the FBI,” Sussmann’s lead defense lawyer Sean Berkowitz of Latham & Watkins said in a court filing last year.
A recent court paper filed by Durham in the Sussmann case suggests he may be looking into Joffe’s relationship with the FBI. The document, which discloses information to Sussmann’s lawyers as part of the discovery process, reveals that a criminal grand jury in D.C. has obtained “approximately 226 emails from within the FBI’s holding involving a company founded by [Joffe].” Durham does not identify the company, but sources told RCI it is Packet Forensics. The 226 emails were generated in 2016 alone.
All told, the FBI has a total of approximately17,000 emailsthat reference Joffe’s company – and those are just from a search of the bureau’s unclassified files.
Durham said that his investigators are “also conducting other searches and communicating with other government agencies regarding [Joffe’s] companies.”
In a 2015 promotional video by Neustar, Joffe disclosed that his real gift is recruiting other experts…
"I’m not the smart guy in the room. I’m really the dumb guy that carries the bags – but fortunately in those bags, I have a lot of money," Joffe said with a grin. "So my role has really been carrying the bags of money to help whenever I can when folks in the [cyber-security] community want things. I’m really happy to be able to do that kind of thing."
"So those are the things I really do,” he added. "I’m not really good at actually understanding spam and finding that. I’m not any of those things.I couldn’t have an intelligent conversationabout the techniques and methods used.”
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