PO Box 16 Nobby Beach come in please, over.
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Yesterday I brought this post from January last year to the front page of our website
http://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2015/01/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-australia.html
Chris Griffith from The Australian contacted me yesterday to enquire about our work on PO Box 16 Nobby Beach Queensland.
One of our readers had given us chapter and verse about the Muslim Brotherhood's use of the anonymising service which has its address at that PO Box and I asked for your help then, as I did again yesterday.
Over the past year we've had readers sit off that PO Box from time to time, here's a report from one of them, thanks VOG!
Authorities are well engaged on the matter.
Today Chris's story is in The Australian:
Nobby Beach PO Box tied to Russian cyber spies
The Nobby Beach post office, the registered address for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood among others.
- The Australian
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A meek looking post office at Nobby Beach on the Gold Coast has links to some of the world’s most controversial organisations. It’s now linked to the leaking of documents in the US presidential race.
According to a WHOIS search on the internet, Post Office Box 16 is the listed address of the domain DCleaks.com, one of two websites in focus in the US this week following the leaking of phone numbers and email addresses of current and former Democrats in the House of Representatives. There’s also accusations of the involvement of Russian spies. It’s been labelled the electronic Watergate.
Post Office Box 16 is also the address for a scam express postal service, a website hacking service, a direct mail advertising service, and a bitcoin scam. The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Official English website is registered there, along with possibly hundreds of other interesting domains.
DCleaks.com and the Guccifer 2.0 WordPress site have been linked to an attempt to derail the upcoming US election through the collection and leaking of contact details of senior US officials. The Democrat officials have been warned to tell their families not to answer their mobiles or read texts while their phone numbers and other contact details are changed.
Guccifer 2.0 leaked Democrat email addresses and mobile numbers. DCleaks.com has leaked emails from both Democrat and Republican party representatives, a NATO general and billionaire George Soros. More than 2500 documents from the organisations run by the Hungarian-American businessman were reportedly leaked.
The most dangerous links, if true, are to Russian organisations, and DCleaks.com seems sympathetic to Russian interests, although on Twitter it claims to be formed by American hacktivists. It notes that Soros’s Open Society Foundation was seeking to expose the influence of Russia in the European Union. And how networks close to NATO helped fuel the conflict in Ukraine.
The documents, phone numbers and email addresses are the ones that hackers have chosen to release, but it’s unknown what other contact details and other information they have and whether Russia has conducted an eavesdropping exercise monitoring conversations and hacking emails of these and other senior officials.
Then there’s the question of how much information has been hacked from NATO allied command operations. It’s a frightening thought.
That’s a world away from PO Box 16 at Nobby Beach, a pretty area on southern Queensland’s sandy Gold Coast.
However Nobby Beach is the business contact address of PrivacyProtect.org, a company set up to register domain names. It also aims to safeguard the personal privacy of its customers by not registering their real contact details on the WHOIS database of domain names.
The company on its website says it “ensures that your private information is not published by replacing all your publicly visible contact details with alternate contact information.” It offers its own PO Box 16 address for registration, hence the multiplicity of sites with its address.
The problem is that its domain registering service is no-questions-asked. It doesn’t care what name you use or who you are. That’s made the service a magnet for any organisation wanting to hide its identity online, including scammers who register websites with names similar to trusted institutions.
For example, there’s auparcel-checker5.net, which looks an authentic parcel delivery service.
There's more at The Australian
Who'd have thought one year ago that that nondescript PO Box in Queensland would tie in Hillary Clinton, the Muslim Brotherhood, Russian spies and God knows who else.
We really must write a book one day!
Love to hear from you if you have more to add