Peter Thiel’s Secret Society: Swiss Hacktivist Maia Arson Crimew Found The Records Sitting In The Website’s Own Source Code
According to WIRED, which independently verified the contents, a trove of internal records from Dialog; the invitation-only secret society cofounded by billionaire Palantir investor Peter Thiel in 2006, was left exposed online, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details members had been assured would stay private.
How The Leak Happened
Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, known for previously exposing the US government’s No-Fly List, found an open directory embedded in the source code of dialog.org that was visible to anyone who simply viewed the page. The records sat in Airtable, a commercial database, and included for each participant their membership status, every retreat attended, biography, home city, and a private access token functioning as a login credential.
Notably, none of the 222 registrants used a government email address. All signed up with personal or corporate accounts, placing their attendance outside the reach of public-records laws.
Who Is On The List
Among those named are NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Alexus Grynkewich, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Senator Ted Cruz, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, senior intelligence and military officials, ambassadors, and executives from major surveillance, data-brokerage, artificial intelligence, and technology companies.
Other names include Hollywood actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor Josh Brolin, podcast host and author Sam Harris, and tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson.
The leak also identified several prominent figures not publicly associated with the organisation, including former Federal Reserve governor Randy Kroszner, Anti-Defamation League chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt, Cato Institute president Peter Goettler, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Roger Myerson.
What They Were Planning To Discuss
Session titles planned for the August 12–16 retreat near Dublin include “Navigating WWIII,” “Battlefield Technologies,” “Bring Back Nuclear,” and “Build-a-Cult,” the last moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray.com. Internal moderator guides instructed attendees that discussions were strictly off the record and encouraged participants to avoid overt status signalling despite the presence of senators, diplomats, military leaders, and business executives.
The Matchmaking Programme
Dialog also runs a matchmaking service. Its registration form asks whether participants are “looking for love” and offers to include single respondents in future matchmaking. A separate site at dating.dialog.org hosts an app pitched as “meaningful connections for exceptional people.” The form also collects each registrant’s political leaning, which Dialog promised would never be shared. That data leaked anyway.
The Epstein Connection And Broader Context
It is not the first time Dialog has appeared in public. It surfaced earlier this year in the Justice Department’s release of the Epstein files, where Jeffrey Epstein was mentioned on the 2014 Dialog retreat invitation list. It is unclear whether Epstein attended this or any other Dialog events. Almost a year ago, Axios reported the society was preparing a major expansion, including a real estate purchase to build a campus in the DC suburbs.
What The Hacker Said
Crimew told Straight Arrow it is “wild” how this once again shows that “the people who run the world are so confident in their safety that they don’t really bother with any proper operational security; not even for their ‘off the record’ secret conventions where they all network and discuss our collective future.”
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