A tool for the trade or a bane of our existence?

While browsing the sell forums on the eve main site I came across an intresting post about a guy who is able to compile lists of people in alliance and corps via the API server.

The original post can be found here
 http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1555452

After reading a little more into this, it seems Kronus uses data mining techniques to farm user ids for the chars and compiles them into a list.  So I thought to my self this could be a usefull tool in which SIG could exploit in order to increase the speed at which we can help some of our clients.

I decide to investigate a bit further. Upon clicking his link I am led to a login site asking for my email address.  Now if you rember a few posts ago about my email account getting hacked. I said no thank you.  I will do things the longer harder way.

Kronus Claims he is able to identify 90% of all members in any corp or alliance.  He can do this in a matter of seconds by drawing from the API server.  My work takes days sometimes weeks but when I am done there is a complete list of members activity levels how many are alts and what ships they fly. 

Although Kronus's service is fast and possibly user friendly I will not be using it as I am no longer giving my email addresses out to any EvE related sites. But for the CEO involved in a current highsec war, who does not have or will not engadge in espionage this service could be worth its wieght in gold. 

Operation Repo is back on

Somtimes when a target presents itself it is adventagious to act accordingly.  SIG has decided to create a small team of overt agents flying under the SIG flag.  The purpose for these agents is to hit towers that are either offline or will be offlined shortly.  We do this with a relatively small group.  Well lets be honest 2 people.  We fit out the nastiest catalyst we can get and as soon as the dec goes through we hit the offlined towers labs, hangars and ship arrays looking for anything worth a buck.  The loot is then syphoned off from SIG coffers and out to our main indie corp in the case of blueprints and minerals or sold to the highest bidder.  This will be and on going project and broadens SIG net options when it comes to attacking targets.

corp security from the eyes of another

@gamerchick42 had a little intresting post that in my line of work relates directly to me.  I encourage anyone concerned with "spies" in Eve please read and follow the guidelines.  There is one small snipit from this post that can truly prevent the common "spy" in eve online

"Recruitment by Invite Only. This has been adopted by several corporations, but is not very accommodating when you want to recruit large numbers. However, the chances of a recruit being a spy after being vouched for by other corporate members is very slim. Though for more serious security endeavors I would highly recommend this route, be aware there is still a slim chance for the more dedicated spies for slipping through."

 

The rest of her artical can be found here http://www.gamerchick.net/ it is quite informative and insightful.

 

This is the only real way to prevent any sort of infiltration, but we have to place an astricks next to this.  If you have the policy of recruitment only.  You need to make sure that your online friends are happy with every move you make.  As they could being to allow thier less then loyal friends gain access to your corp roster. 

 

This is why I feel to truly have a secure corp in eve you need to structure your corp as an autocracy.  Operating this way allows one person to remain in control of your assets.  Your members become semi reliant on your ability to feed them, and lets be honest most human beings would rather follow then lead.  But in order to operate your corp in this manner you have to be an intelligent person, savvy and well spoken.

 

Now I want to take this on a diffrent tangent.  The definition of spy in eve online has become diluted over the years.  The term spy in eve has been reduced to the common corp thief.  The deffinition of spy according to Merriam-Webster is as follows:

 

1: to watch secretly usually for hostile purposes

2: to catch sight of

3: to search or look for intensively

 

So lets call spies what they really are.  My definition of spy trends more twards saboteur. Sabotage is defined as:

 

1: destruction of an employer's property (as tools or materials) or the hindering of manufacturing by discontented workers

2: destructive or obstructive action carried on by a civilian or enemy agent to hinder a nation's war effort

3a : an act or process tending to hamper or hurt b : deliberate subversion

 

As I instruct all of my agents to operate not as a spy but as a subversion agent with the intent to destroy, dismantle and disrupt anything and everything that they are given access to.  From communications to stockpiles of weapons and materials.  A skilled agent will take these acts of sabotage to the exterme, for example so of our agents were able to successfully remove the ability for a corp to rescan its way into its own wormhole.  Actions like this is what make the common corp thief into a true agent of destruction. 

 

Look at our most recent operations against Fallen angels alliance and Vanguard imperium.  WE had no access to assets of any major value yet we were able to create interal paranoia, and reduce moral to the point where many upper level leadership would not plan any offensive operation against Atlas.  An agent must be able to use psycological warfare against himself inorder to complete the objective.

 

So I ask the eve community lets stop calling thieves spies and start claling them what they are.  The true masters of subversion deserve a little bit more respect then being classified as the low no talanted bottom feeds that raid corp hangars and wallets.

Back in action

After a long 5 days of information gathering for CCP they have "Granted me access to my account".  I have resumed communications with our agents and all projects are back on track. 

Operation BlackDawn is slowly progressing and still waiting access to target wormhole.

Operation Veldspar( my code name not the agents code name) has changed direction to secondary corp occupying primary target wormhole.

Operation Spotcheck II- is currently a frelance agent and he/she has gone dark.

Operation Repo has been cancled due to my account breech and wardec going unfunded.  We will reasses this project for furthur operations later.

Account hacked update

Well I filed my petition on July 15th with CCP followed by a copy of my communications with my ISP about my email account breech, then I gave them all the information that is required inorder to regain an account in which you have lost access to the orginal email address.  With these mails I gave them 3 contact phone numbers and 2 additional e-mail addresses.  Now one would think after 72 hours they would have atleast temporaily suspended the account to protect any remaining assets on the account. But as a matter of fact they have done absolutly nothing.  I have not even recived a single reply from any of thier staff.  I wonder how mny people have to watch from an API program thier assets disaprear to some Bejing asshat.

I check my online billing for my credit card today and behold CCP has kindly removed $14.95 for an account sub.  After ariving to my office this morning I fired up EvEHQ ( awsome program love it very much) I keep my full apis located at my office. And much to my suprise my main character has had 90% of her assets stripped, SIG's assets are gone =( and my main has 1 million less SP thanks to repeated podding and recloning of my dear pilot. 

I sent CCP a very nice yet strongly worded letter today stating the fact that I am a bit irritated that they have the gall to take a sub payment for an account that I have informed them was breeched and unplayable by myself.  We will have to see how they respond to this mail. 

I am a fairly patient individual and hope they get this one right or I may be packing up my accounts and calling it over and done with.

The speed bump from hell

Well I went to log on yesterday after getting home.  So I fired up my eve client and typed in my password. . . wait and wait password incorrect, I think to my self well my firgers must be tired, tried again password incorrect. Hmm so I make my way to the account managment screen log in password incorrect. So I decided to log into my email to see if my debit card was declined, password incorrect now im pissed off. After a lengthy phone call with my ISP come to find out some asshat in Bejing has decided to borrow my account.  I filed a petition with CCP and 24hrs later nothing no a response just a yeap we got it working on it goodluck typical response which irritates the ever living fuck out of me.  So untill my current issue with not being able to log into my account gets fixed I have put all operations except black dawn on hold as I am unable to communicate with our agents. I will be send out eve mail to our agents as soon as I am back in action.

Operation Black Dawn up date and another wardec looms

Operation Black Dawn is going slow, I have been asked to relocate to a new area in Highsec and operate out of there untill further notice which annoys my just a little bit Black dawn has been active for about 10 days now and with little information about wormhole locations comming in, as it appears they use a seperate channel ingame for all things wormhole related.  But I was able to learn that one of the current members was given quite a gift when one of his friends quit the game.  My jaw hit the floor when he linked what he was flying and then when I was able to visualy confirm its existance, He was sitting in a . . . Guardian-Vexor, yes a Guardian-Vexor and to top it all off he was can flipping miners while flying it.  We have plans in the works for ganking that shiney peice as soon as I am able to get 2 arty tempests in place.

While scouting last night for another project I ran across yet another offlined industry heavy POS.  Check info 80 man corp in an alliance, well I though to myself so I bookmarked the tower and flew on.  Two moons later another one, diffrent corp a three man corp with tech III production arrays and labs.  Vote cast war dec looms.  This should be a quick 30 min job for myself and one other agent.  Killmails and loot break down to follow as soon as operation is complete.  This operation has been codenamed Operation Tango Down.

The killmails for Operation Goldrush are now on battleclinic.  Feel free to check back for future kills by SIG Net.

We now have 2 freelance agents working under the SIG banner both of our new recruits were very eager to give purpose more then just stealing shit to thier efforts.  I am looking forward to relaying stories of thier success and adding their operations to the list of SIG net victories.

Operation Goldrush mixed results

S.I.G. Net completed operation gold rush early this morning around 1:30 am, the offlined tower with 6 labs was hit by two SIG operatives and the four moblie labs and two advanced labs attached to a tower owned by Bulywifs Blacksmiths were destroyed in very short fasion.  The dropped blueprints were less then exciting, We were able to recover 6 Prophecy, 9 Tristan, 5 Bestower and 3 capital construction part blueprint copies.  We were expecting a much larger haul as it appears we destroyed almost all of the blueprints as the labs disintigrated into space dust. The entire operation lasted less then 30 minutes.

Allthough the operation went off without incident we are a tad annoyed with the fact that we destroyed 95% of what was inside the labs. Hopfuly the next strike will be more profitable.

SIG declares war for the first time Operation Goldrush

It has been my policy with SIG net for a long period of time to not engage in overt operations. But a unique oppurtunity has come up where an agent has gained fuel tech roles and is able to shut down the target's medium reasearch POS.  So last night SIG declared war of target corp whos CEO and Director are on vacation this week.  SIG's 1 man frigate fleet will be hitting the target POS tonight in hopes that the labs are currently reasearching bluprints.

Recruiting agents

I was browsing the blog list today and found a freelancer in the spying business and offered him a job.  Any other freelancers are more then welcome to shoot me over and evemail and we can discuss how we operate and how we can assist you in your operations.

The Heimdall

Vacation and the end game of Vanguard and fallen

After a 10 day vacation from Eve ( but not eve gate) I am finished with Vanguard and Fallen angels alliances. My clients are quite happy with the work that was done. So lets break it down, At the time of infiltration Fallen had about 350 members and 10 corps, Vanguard had about 800 members and 20 corps as well as holding space in multiple systems.  As of today Vanguard has 6 corps and 138 members and Fallen has 1 corp and 2 members.  Fallen has lost all of its space and Vanguard holds only 1 system in Querious.

Although the outcome of this operation was far better then anticipated as Atlas. helped quite alot to push these guys off a cliff, And without thier help it would have taken a much longer time investment to get to the point we are at now.

At the close of this operation our information leaks have lead to the destruction of 10 billion in jump frieghter and transport hulls and 15 billion in other assets.  Our agents did not gain access to any significant assets and no assets worth mentioning were stolen in the mad scramble to GTFO.  All of our agents have left thier current positions and have been relocated to NPC corps.

Recently the reminants of these two alliances have reformed under a flag called self destruct alliance, although I do not see this new alliance to be anywhere near the capabilities of the last ones currently standing at 179 members.  I forsee the same issues with communications and lack of vision will plauge this new alliance.  So anyone looking for a little fun they are recruiting and still have aspirations to get back into Querious.

I have also taken a revenge contract against a medium sized highsec/wh corp, which I am doing for merit as I feel the assets are worth the 10s of billions and the client is a friend of mine. I have already infiltrated the corp with the same pilot I used as against fallen and vanguard.  Our large transport is on standby and will be on the move as soon as I have access to the assets we are looking to liberate. I am being assited by the client with transport and ship access for the agent currently working inside.

SIG net is also looking to evolve a little as well. We are currently looking to either join a merc alliance for specialization in intel gathering, or joining up with other spy organizations for joint operations against larger targets.  If anyone is intrested feel free to contact me via eve mail and we can discuss details of our possible work together.

The Heimdall