Silence good for business bad for entertainment

My blog has been silent the last few weeks, as I have been doing alot of work on my home as well as attempting to push our corp further into Stain region.  My agent has been training and loggin in daily but with little activity in the corp, alliance and my self things have gone a bit stagnant.  I am hopeing with the return of colder weather here I will see an increase in activity and possible access to my final objective.  Having supplied my full API but yet to be allowed access to the objective things tend to get discouraging but I continue to cruise along waiting patiently for my moment.

Operation sink hole

Operation sink hole went off last night without a hitch, It appears goodfleet a little 4 man corp was not intrested in putting forcefields back online so we hit the tower destroyed the lab and nothing... Hitting labs is costing SIG earned isk for the war decs with very little yield.  The projects will continue and decs will follow when suitable targets are found. 

Operation black dawn is stalled again as my CEO still has not logged online to accept my full API key to gain access to the primary target assets.  So for now I am sitting tight and just spending mroe time padding the corp wallet and my own with lvl 4 missions.  As soon as we gain access and am able to establish needed logistics this operation will excelerate at a very fast rate.  I need to get this one wrapped up quick as I have a new corp to target.

Operation return fire has shifted in a positive way the agent has been told after thier war dec he will be allowed access to thier corp.  Very good news for us, as we have instructed our agent to work slowly and dismantle this alliance from the inside.  A very big and daunting task that will test his abilities to the max. 

Full API check?... Not a problem

After a recent security issue my new( sorta new ) corp has asked my agent alt for a full API check.  I was a bit concerned at first but then ran the same check on myself and didnt find any red flags.  To be honest this is the very first time anyone has asked me a full API in order to gain access to assets I want to get my hands on.  I am waiting for my CEO to log on ao I can convo him over the said API information.

It seems operation black dawn is comming close to its apex.  I am getting rather excited as I have watched my new targets loose Itty after Itty full of sleeper salvage bpos and tech 3 sub systems.  I was starting to thik that these guys may not ever let me into this damn wormhole.  After talking with a couple guys who are stationed there, I was informed theres not just 1 POS belonging to my corp but 4 POSes... yes FOUR.  Total POSes in the WH system total 10 the other 6 belonging to alliance members.

Liberated items very well could total upwards of 15-20 billion without touching the corp wallet.  I have already made arrangments for frieghter and orca transports to be ready at a moments notice.

Operation Spotcheck II canceled

The operative working the spotcheck job has exercised his right to declare an operation a failure.  After weeks of no responses and very little communication from the target, I have offered a chance at retribution.  I have instructed our agent to infiltrate a smaller wormhole corp that took pot shots at the wrong reation tower in wormhole space. 

Four weeks ago while we operated in null sec my personal reaction POS was attacked by a 15 man fleet.  I rallied our troops, the heavy dics warped in bubbled up.  A small battle started, what the attacking fleet did not know that on the otherside of the WH system 4 carriers had just logged in and were inbound to the reaction pos. 

Now SIG net is returning the favor our agent is joining up and has been instructed to entrench and bleed them out, burn them down and destroy thier ability to exist as a cohesive unit.  After this has been achived we will bring a fleet to bare down on thier towers and show them how this is supposed to be done.

Operation Return Fire is in effect.
Goodluck agent

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.