In the last post I questioned the use of Italy’s super secretive special forces military divers and mine sweepers. Thinking it was possible that explosives may be an issue.
The Italian Navy’s secretive Comsubin unit are combing the yacht for any electronic devices that might offer clues to why it sunk – as well as checking to see if any doors were left open on board.
Could they be looking for anything else? It seems that might just be the case!
la Repubblica- Palermo ( a local/ regional news article)
Un tesoro di gioielli, ma soprattutto un tesoro di informazioni contenute nei due hard disk dai quali Mike Lynch non si separava mai. A 49 metri di profondità nelle casseforti del veliero potrebbero esserci documenti di enorme valore per le intelligence di tutto il mondo.
A treasure of jewels, but above all a treasure of information contained in the two hard drives from which Mike Lynch never separated. At 49 meters deep in the safes of the sailing ship there could be documents of enormous value for intelligence around the world.
These two hard drives hold very valuable intelligence.
More info reported in the Palermo article from here
Sources told the paper the disks held: “the great digital archive of the IT entrepreneur whose clients included the British MI5, the American NSA and the Israeli services”.
The Italian newspaper said the “super drives” are protected by “cutting-edge encryption”.
Lynch reportedly did not trust the cloud to save his high-level business secrets so always had the hard drives on him.
The billionaire partly made his wealth by creating algorithms and software widely used by top Western security agencies.
His company Autonomy won high-profile contracts with governments, including a deal to provide infrastructure to the US Homeland Security for the post-9/11 war on terror.
Lynch also co-founded the cybersecurity company Darktrace and employed high-ranking intelligence agents for the firm.
There is no reason to question the existence of these hard drives or doubt they are an intelligence mother lode- all things considered.
Darktrace has developed a reputation as a sleek AI cybersecurity startup with ties to spy agencies like MI5 and the U.S. National Security Agency.
Lynch founded Darktrace in partnership with former British intelligence officials in 2013.
One of the co-founders was Stephen Haxter, a senior member of MI5’s cyber defence team, who became Darktrace’s chief executive. Then Haxter, according to Politico, hired 30-year veteran of the secret service GCHQ (the British government’s communications headquarters), Andrew France,
Former MI5 chief Jonathan Evans also served on Darktrace’s board for a time, while Jim Penrose, a 17-year US National Security Agency veteran, was in charge of the company’s US-related business. Other former spies at the company included technology director Dave Palmer, who previously worked at MI5 and GCHQ, and security director John Richardson, who worked in cyber defence for the UK government.
It’s been obvious, to me anyway, that there has been more to this incident then met the eye– Still no word on why the unsinkable ship sank