For when ebay invariably takes this auction down: http://archive.is/l9tZ9

Hold up hold up hold up.

>I was told by the other execs that the product had not been picked up by Lockheed, and therefore that the company had been wound down and dissolved.

and then

>Included on this CD... a list of all the nuclear power plants and numbers of installed RockCams at each nuclear power plant location...

So... which is it? If the company was spun down and dissolved, then I imagine there wasn't any further activity that could end up in mail spools or shared drives or whatnot that he had access to. There wouldn't be a list of nuclear sites where this technology was deployed, because Lockheed never picked it up. Of course, he implies that the Russian "spy rock" incident was this technology --a plausible assumption, at least-- and that this implies the technology is still in the field. But he wouldn't be privy to where in the field the tech was deployed after the company was spun down. Were these devices deployed into the field (the Nuclear Reactor locations) during R&D or alpha/beta testing when the company was still active? If so, how does he know the devices would still be there?

The financial and other business data could be very useful in journalistic endeavours. ProjectPM would eat it up. Just imagine all of the social networks you could graph out (it is just metadata; I'm sure they won't mind). However, I don't think the auctioneer is aiming this at journalists. I don't know of any journalists that have a spare 10 million laying around or otherwise have access to 10 million. If not journalists, then perhaps competitors in the field. Given the way he's worded this missive, the tone gives off an air that he'd be willing to sell to anyone. But surely this fella can't think that ebay is going to just let this auction continue? He seems to imply that he wants others to message him. No contact info is given. His ebay user isn't going to be around for long.

He gave his name though, and from that I found that this person was apparently on cryptome a month ago --listing his email as Gregory.Perry@GoVirtual.tv; no public keys on pgp.mit.edu-- where he was "planning" all this out (poorly, if I might add):

http://cryptome.org/2013/07/rockcam-spy.htm

>I don't think there should be any national security concerns with the release of any of this information.... However, I have no knowledge of any such derivative projects manufactured by Lockheed, Boeing, or otherwise, so I don't think there should be any national security concerns with auctioning off this hardware and related engineering blueprints to the highest bidder on Ebay.

And who he's aiming the auction at:

>I am also in possession of a year or so worth of electronic mail correspondence and communications by and between AWA, Lockheed, M2M, and various components such as DTRA that may be of use to other burgeoning startups interested in building covert imager hardware, so all of those documents, the prototype hardware that I have here, and some pretty pictures will be listed on Ebay today or tomorrow for NATO-friendly nation states to peruse and bid on.

Honestly, this all feels very hamfisted at best. I don't think this person really thought this through.