It’s brought attention to the Steem blockchain both good and bad.
No publicity is bad publicity as they say.
The removal of @thedarkoverloard from multiple Steem front-ends including Steemit.com and Steempeak.com for violating the steemit.com Terms of Service agreement has also been met with both harsh criticism as well of vocal support.
Partial Censorship
This event has been a true test of Steem’s censorship-resistance claims that have attracted numerous content creators who have faced some form of censorship from Tech giant platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and Google. Slowly but surely there are fewer and fewer platforms that will tolerate alternative perspectives to mainstream thinking. Internet censorship is on the increase, there's little doubt.
As follows, @thedarkoverlord was removed from Steem Inc.s flagship app Steemit.com yet has remained visible on alternate UIs such as busy.org, Partiko, and esteem. As a result, TDO’s presence and visibility has been greatly diminished but not completely banished.
At one end of the spectrum, some feel that this was a missed opportunity for Steem to showcase one of the blockchain’s strongest features – immutability. At the other extreme, people argue that Steemit.com was wise to protect its brand from liability and enforce their ToS within their right as a private company.
For an excellent breakdown of the difference between the Steem Blockchain, Steemit.com and Steem Inc. please read @aggroed's blog about the subject below.
https://steempeak.com/steem/@aggroed/a-note-about-thedarkoverlord-and-censorship-on-steem-it
The Question of Legitimate Documents
One of the reasons why @deepdives has not yet initiated research into these archives has to do with the legitimacy of the documentation. Wasting the time and energy of researchers investigating the leaks is something that we want to avoid whenever and wherever possible. If the documents turn out to be fakes, then it was all for not.
However, from what we understand at this point in time and by most accounts, the documents do indeed appear to be legitimate. Currently, no one claims that they are forgeries and when you look at some of the lengthy witness ‘depositions’ from the insurance company files you can see that it would take a substantial amount of time and effort to fake.
Documents in Layers 1 and 2 are quite dry and filled with the legalese of insurance companies. Another sign that these are true documents, as there’s nothing sexy about them.
Still, this does not mean that there may not be misleading information contain in the release of future layers.
What’s in the TDO 911 Papers?
So far, the best coverage of the 911 Papers has been done by:
Jason Bermas of We are Change / Pulse Change YouTube Channel
Defango – Defango TV
Also be sure to check out the work of Sparky.Tech for their analysis.
https://sparky.tech/thedarkoverlord-veracrypt-an-analysis-of-the-preview-container/
Flight 93
pbs.org
Perhaps one of the most interesting finds to come to light so far comes from this reddit post in r/conspiracy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/acqp45/dark_overlord_911_this_may_have_allowed_the/
Document name from release: 00010135.doc
Document title from footnote: OP-260315-1
Heading: II. LIABILITY POTENTIAL OF AMERICAN AND UNITED AIRLINES
Subheading: D. Failure to Require that Commercial Jetliners Be Equipped With Automated Transponders.
Aviation experts agree that knowing right away that the planes had not crashed but had been commandeered might have cut precious minutes off the time it took the FAA to decide to contact the military. 6 This may have allowed the military to intervene as they did on the flight in Pennsylvania. The airlines’ failure to adopt such a policies represents another possible breach of their duty to exercise reasonable care.
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This may have allowed the military to intervene as they did on the flight in Pennsylvania.
This does not conclusively mean that flight 93 was shot down by the US military but military intervention is not something that most people remember as the official story of flight 93. As the story goes, a group of heroic passengers overpowered the hijackers and crashed the plane into the woods before it could be used to attack another target.
TDO Methods
Many, including deep dive community members, object to the methods employed by TDO. In particular, TDO has made clear that they do not care about ‘truth’, they care about getting paid.
For some, the very idea of having to pay for leaked documents is unethical while for others the blackmail/extortion methods should not be supported or encouraged.
Here are some related articles worth reading/viewing on the subject of TDO and Steemit.com censorship.
@pressfortruth
https://steempeak.com/dtube/@pressfortruth/4vnn417t
@ura-soul
https://steempeak.com/steem/@ura-soul/censoring-steem-sites-does-it-protect-victims-enable-abusers-both-or-neither-we-need-to-be-clear-on-this-for-steem-s-sake
Still, others are not concerned with the medium in which the documents are delivered and are solely concerned with their contents.
The idea here is if, and it’s a Big ‘IF’, the hacks of TDO contain tangible evidence of government criminality, corruption, collusion, conspiracy or cover-up in relation to 911 – this information must be brought to the attention of the world and made public.
With consideration to all of the above, @deepdives is announcing Dark-Dive, an ongoing investigation into the “911” hacks.
Dark Dives - The 911 Papers
theisinfo.com
The @deepdives collective has been following the @thedarkoverlord’s releases with great interest but have followed a wait and see approach to the 911 papers.
Thus far, nothing that would be considered to be earth-shattering has been discovered from either of the Layer-1 or Layer-2 releases. Nevertheless, there may be some documents of significance or connections that have yet to be made in the first Layers and in Layers to come 3, 4 and 5 (if they ever surface).
How to Participate
There will be only a handful of rules for those who are interested.
- Use one of the following lead tags: deepdives, darkdives, thedarkoverlord
- There will be no set time perimeters for this challenge - research is ongoing
- There will be no ‘winners’
- Quality submissions will be resteemed be the @deepdives account
- Focus on any document found in TDO 911-Papers archive and make a post about it.
- Report, analyze, comment on ACTUAL DOCUMENTS from the archive (screenshots are welcome)
- Wherever possible use supporting evidence or documentation from publicly available sources
As an ongoing investigation, there’ are no time constraints or ‘winners’. If there are a number of significant articles contributed from the community, @deepdives will make an update post to highlight anything of real interest and recognize contributors.
Safety First
Please, please, please be cautious.
Educate yourself in how to be remain safe if you’re considering decrypting and opening any of the file containers provided by TDO.
We strongly recommend that you wait until others more qualified have determined that the containers are free of Malware/Ransomware before diving into research.
Thus far, it's our understanding that there have been no reports of malware or ransomware from Layer 1 or Layer 2.
Resources
If you do decide to open the containers on your own.
We highly recommend setting up a Virtual Machine
Learn About VeraCrypt
To help your keyword and term search try using this tool: Open Semantic Search
Layers of the 911 Onion
When contemplating whether or not to do a Deep Dive on this controversial topic, we came to the conclusion that this type of research is exactly the reason why we started @deepdives in the first place. We dig, we investigate, we question, we report.
There’s no guarantee that TDO will even release Layers 3 to 5, we may never know what's contained inside the hacked archive but since it’s already out there we feel like it’s something worth investigating.
After all, this is what @deepdives was created for.
As Always, Be Safe Out There and Happy Digging
We know this research is not for everybody, and for good reason.
We've created a small Deep Dives Discord with a handful of members. It's a closed group at the moment but if you're interested in joining please DM us. It's a place to discuss the leaks and related subject matter. Also, if you've been involved as a contributor to Deep Dives in the past you'll have no problem gaining access.
Special thanks to @an0nkn0wledge, @ura-soul, @bifilacoil, @thoughts-in-time, and @theouterlight.
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We hope you join us in building this unique resource….
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Since TDO business model is simply extortion, I have little confidence that legitimate proof of criminality of consequence will be forthcoming. Were such evidence in hand it would be so hot as to burn any hands that touched it. We're talking about treason, mass murder, and various crimes against humanity by some of the most powerful (by definition, if this proof exists) mobsters and thugs in the world, with access to the best funded and, arguably, most competent state level cyberintelligence agencies in the world.
The payout for this risk is less than $3M.
That's not enough to employ nominal security protocols to counter the threat, IMHO. Perhaps TDO is 733T H4x0RZ enough to be confident in their security.
I find it far more likely that they know they aren't at significant risk of such threats because they are not in possession of any such incriminating evidence, beyond the damning evidence you have already cited, which is basically just lying about taking security measures and making up a bullshit story to heroize the dead. Not too liable to produce significant outrage or make actual heads roll, if quite alarming and actually criminal.
Such significant incrimination as might potentiate indictments for treason and crimes against humanity would only be safe to simply anonymously release IMHO. Using it for extortion purposes is poking uncaged, hungry, murderous bears with short, pointy, twigs,while naked, smeared with blood, and having both legs broken, and I consider that so unwise as to preclude extortion.
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What put me off the dark whatever they are called, is when I researched them, and found out they had been sending threatening/death messages to school children.
I have a daughter, in fact I have had 6 children in my long old life, and one is still only 7, and that kind of behavior quite frankly disgusts me, if it is true. https://www.thedailybeast.com/dark-overlord-hackers-text-death-threats-to-students-then-dump-voicemails-from-victims
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Haven't seen this before, that's despicable. We're obviously dealing with people who don't give a fuck about anyone or anything.
Just to be clear, we understand that A LOT of people take issue with TDOs methods/tactics and honestly most people connected to @deepdives also have a very hard time reconciling the potential benefits and the drawbacks of engaging in this sort of research. They're no Wikileaks.
Because we look at their releases doesn't mean that we're okay with their MO. Yet, if there are revelations in the documents of government criminality relating to the 911 terrorist event (also leading to uncountable casualties in the war on terror), we feel that this outweighs the unethical acts of greed and threats made by the hacking group.
All said, we respect your decision and your points are completely valid.
Thanks for your commentary, it's always welcome.
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Thanks my friend, though with regards to 911, I feel it in my opinion is all in your face anyway, unless you are a MSM idiot, so they could have zero information that proves it more so, just the way I see it is all, anyone with half a brain can see through "the new pearl harbor" those that can not, never will, until the TV in the corner of the room says so!
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Couldn't agree more, even if damning evidence is unearthed in these documents or elsewhere - will anyone pay attention? The media will see to it that it's not ever discussed in the mainstream, only to be ridiculed. The average American will be happy to remain in their bubbled echo-chambers believing in their illusions and life-long indoctrination.
Still hoping for some sort of cog to be thrown into the wheel of the US war machine, that might jar people out of their apathy. Probably futile, but we soldier on.
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A sobering thought for you, or one that will give you hope, the rest of the world sees it for what it was, even my 76 year old mom, she says people had lost the appetite for never ending wars, so they brought down the towers for more, the establishment, that is.
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A sharp mind at 76! Now that's a glimmer of hope ;)
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That’s fucked! Not surprising from these amoral people but still
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Makes you feel sick does it not.
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If that is true, it adds to the reasons I suspect TDO is but a psyop, fishing for patsies. That's the kind of MK Ultra level sociopathy I expect from three letter agencies, not ordinary human criminals and hackers.
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I would love to see what people come up with that are more versed in protecting themselves than I am!
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This stuff needs a budget to investigate.
I don't have the budget to be safe enough to look into this stuff.
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Very good! I'm not sure I am going to have time to participate, but I will definitely be interested to see what is turned up here. Resteemed!
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Yes, time is always a factor and is one of the reasons this will be an ongoing dig. Layers 1 and 2 have yet to produce something to really motivate more to explore the archive. Let's hope that changes!
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Will the New York grand jury lead to a real investigation, or one heavily skewed to an alternative hypothesis that is more palatable to the masses.
In this blog
you can see much of the necessary discussions being made. Having observed metal rebar go soft under water and become pyrophoric in air, despite having a solid cross-section, and having tested samples of metal that have disintegrated without heat, it is no surprise how the buildings fell.
It was not 2, not 3, but substantially ALL of the WTC buildings that were destroyed. Some even flopped over or had parts literally disappear from top to bottom with either circular or straight sections removed.
Then there is Bankers trust building across the street, this continued to disintegrate for many years until they gave up trying to save it.
Until you can explain why re-bar glowed in free-air 11 days after the event, why there was no glass fragments found at Ground Zero, why there was round holes in windows in adjacent buildings, you are not understanding the true technology used.
Now, take a look at this blog post.
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