Why is it people think ~everything~ has to be spelled out to be
exposed? There seems to be a large population that believes that
Startfor's various sources, collaborators, etc. will be spelled out in
email and that will be that. That's a gross oversimplification of how
sources get exposed, their awareness, complicity or lack thereof, etc.
Agencies and organizations all over the world will not only be looking
at email address and names but they'll be checking their logs to see
who has been talking to these newly exposed email addresses. They'll
be doing basic OSINT to find area codes and check if there is some
correlation between suspect subversives and long-distance calls.
Harvest Skype information or nyms. etc. etc. That's not ever
addressing the contents of the emails, just the bloody headers. So it
annoys me, the hypocrisy, when people FREAK OUT (rightly so) about
Blue Coats in Syria but are a-OK with Anon/Anti/Lulz perhaps
indirectly exposing Syrian activists by providing a whos-who of who
they might be passing information to on the outside. Anyhow, just a
quick rant... -Ali