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It seems Biden's IRS is getting into spycraft against American citizens. I would suggest calling your representatives in Congress to stop IRS from completing the purchase. An excerpt from The New American:
The IRS is in the market for technology that would give them the ability to monitor Americans’ online activity. The monitoring system sought by the IRS has already been sold by the manufacturer to the FBI and the Department of Defense.
As reported by Vice:
The particular Team Cymru product the IRS is interested in obtaining is called “Recon-Advanced.” According to Vice, Recon-Advanced gives the client “access to internet traffic telemetry,” which is described by Team Cymru as “the world’s largest Threat Intelligence data ocean.” Vice says the product description page claims that Recon can “trace malicious activity through a dozen or more proxies and VPNs to identify the origin of a cyber threat.”
Now, the IRS would likely claim that they want to monitor internet traffic in order to prevent hackers from gaining access to the the agency’s servers, and thus to protect the private data of millions of Americans from being stolen.
Anyone who has kept up with just how committed the tax collectors are to identifying and targeting groups and individuals of a conservative bent would realize that there’s little to no chance that the IRS intends to use the Recon technology to defend data. The more likely purpose for the purchase is to keep track of the online traffic of those they want to audit for being patriotic.
As reported by Vice:
The company, called Team Cymru, provides access to “netflow” data, which can show activity on the wider internet, such as which server communicated with another. This is information that may ordinarily only be available to the company hosting the server or the internet service provider carrying the traffic.
The particular Team Cymru product the IRS is interested in obtaining is called “Recon-Advanced.” According to Vice, Recon-Advanced gives the client “access to internet traffic telemetry,” which is described by Team Cymru as “the world’s largest Threat Intelligence data ocean.” Vice says the product description page claims that Recon can “trace malicious activity through a dozen or more proxies and VPNs to identify the origin of a cyber threat.”
Now, the IRS would likely claim that they want to monitor internet traffic in order to prevent hackers from gaining access to the the agency’s servers, and thus to protect the private data of millions of Americans from being stolen.
Anyone who has kept up with just how committed the tax collectors are to identifying and targeting groups and individuals of a conservative bent would realize that there’s little to no chance that the IRS intends to use the Recon technology to defend data. The more likely purpose for the purchase is to keep track of the online traffic of those they want to audit for being patriotic.
, then I win.
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