The company s name is TrustCor Systems, and it is trusted by several web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Firefox and others, as a root certificate authority.
An offshore company that is trusted by the major web browsers and other tech companies to vouch for the legitimacy of websites has connections to contractors for U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement, according to security researchers, documents and interviews.
A former business associate of Rodney Joffe launched a Trump-Russia data-mining project in 2016 at the direction of the technology executive, a task the witness said made him feel “extremely uncomfortable” because it felt like “opposition research.”
The anonymity is likely key to the Pentagon s plan
Cybersecurity experts say the mystery shrouding Global Resource Systems is not surprising.
The company has no real history, but the people behind the company undoubtedly have government connections, Morgan Wright, the chief security officer of SentinelOne, told Insider.
The name on the company s incorporation documents, Raymond Saulino, matches the name of a managing member of the cybersecurity firm Packet Forensics, a company that has worked with the government before, according to the company s legal filings. The company has had nearly $40 million in federal contracts over the past decade and currently sells lawful intercept equipment a process that allows law enforcement agencies to selectively wiretap individuals via a court order.
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