CIA goes into cyberspace

Today we learn about yet another company associated with Cristian Mihai. It is called SEON.

There was a time when CIA, FBI, and KGB operatives would visit seedy night-clubs to meet new people, under-cover, hoping to gather small pieces of evidence to add to the ‘dossier’.

These days, clever cyber sleuths do not need to bribe anyone or sleep with anyone to learn about their targets or POIs (persons of interest).

Tracks are left like fingerprints on the world wide web.

Wouldn’t it be great if every thing you had every typed into a computer keyboard could be linked with a serial number like a DNA string, so that if one day you decide to erase everything, you would be able to do this with one password. After all, if you typed the information, you own it, and if you are the owner, you should be able to retract it.

Alas not. If anyone had ever caught you smoking drugs, and you become the president/prime-minister of your country, then you can be sure that someone will sell the story to the media. You can’t erase the past. This is true of all your blogs and comments and associations.

For example, Alin Chiriac and Cristian Mihai have their fingerprints all over the internet. CIA agents no longer need to travel to Romania to enrol at a local tennis club, pretending to be a bath-towel salesman or international playboy in order to connect the dots. It can all be done with clicks. The C in CIA might soon stand for Cyber or Click.

Here is an example of the past just lingering in cyberspace. We see here that Cristian Mihai was part of a company/website called SEON. His associates are listed on the site.

With so many associates listed (although I have not shown them here because I am sure they would not want their name associates with these characters) we can go to those associates, or better still, to the friends of the associates, and ask some questions.

But espionage school teaches us never to ask the ‘friend of the POI’. You would never go to an associate and ask, ‘Hey I believe that you know Crisi Mihai.’ You would wait for her to start telling you about her good-old-days at SEON, or you engineer it so that she would apply for a dummy job wherein she would talk about her past during a formal (yet fake) job interview, or you would ask one of her friends etc. It all takes times, but great gems emerge nicely polished.

So we trace her routes, and build a family-tree style of chart, and we continue to expand the circle of friends and associates of Cristian Mihai and Alin Chiriac, not to mention the fact that these two men have (in the past and on websites) revealed their former schools and education.

Their Linked-In profiles show more clues about their education (or lack thereof) and so we have more places to search, and more people to meet.

In no time, our dossier on them grows. The people they know becomes known to us. And we some people have pasts that they do not necessarily want to drag out into the open. Alas, people talk. Some say things that are innocent in nature, but diabolical in the wrong hands. Some have fond memories that expose certain ‘fun’ times that today would be considered scandalous. Others are easily fooled. Just because they see that you are a friend-of-a-friend on FaceBook, all of a sudden they presume that you are from the inner circle, and they start to tell you things. Just pretend that nothing amazes you, or that you already know, and they tell you more.

The psychology of spying is a grand old affair, and humans have not changed.

Oh and those people with cameras within their mobile phones, are a worry. They take snaps left, right, and centre, and post their photos on their social networking sites. Oh dear. Nothing is private these days.

And that does not matter until you make enemies and upset people. Then your past will come to haunt you. All this social networking is pretty powerful and mighty dangerous.

If you can read between the lines of what we are trying to tell you here, you will understand why in a previous blog we told you that we had to purchase a one-terabyte hard drive to store all the data on Alin Chiriac and Cristian Mihai and their bad behaviour in relation to Twenty, Twenty Advertising, Twenty Mark, Twenty Interactive, Adevox, Helpero Soft, TakeIT, Overbridge, ScreenTek, Mando, and now SEON. Why do two men need so many companies? You guessed it!

See you in cyberspace where the net never sleeps.

P.S. No doubt you know of precedents where courts have allowed sherifs to serve papers on people via FaceBook! Even the New Zealand couple that took-off with a million dollars from the Westpac bank, were tracked down because the stupid lady told her friends on FaceBook what she was doing. Do you remember those corny films where 007 would say, ‘Zoom in on that photo, you see the Eiffel Tower in the distance. Our villain is in Paris, quick, let’s go.’ That all seemed fanciful. Now the fiction is becoming reality.