From Anonymous's PR to federal target
started innocently, but Barrett Brown and exploits with Anonymous wrapped around him in a situation that is facing years in prison if convicted
Until the FBI burst through the door, which was like any other day Barrett Brown.
writer and activist of 31 years, closely associated with the hacker collective Anonymous, had been joking late at night in a room online webcam chat with friends. But the conversation abruptly interrupted when the video stream Brown fainted. Amid a wave of shock and cries of "Down", a group of armed agents raided his apartment in Dallas, Texas, handcuffed and face down on the ground.
From tonight, September 12 last year, Brown was in a Texas prison awaiting a trial that could arise in the coming decades behind bars. He is accused of committing 17 offenses in total, including complicity in aggravated identity theft, Internet threats and retaliation against a federal police officer. But this is not an ordinary case, open and closed. It is a strange saga involving a web of secrets, scandals and informers infiltrated part of hacking conspiracy more widely publicized in recent history.
U.S. authorities clearly the charges against Brown, who see it as a threat to society - an anti-anarchist campaign for a violent revolution. But supporters say it is subjected to a heavy charge, comparing his situation to that of Matthew Key, the publisher of the media, told Reuters last week, accused of conspiring with Anonymous, and activist Aaron Swartz Internet freedom leading who committed suicide in January while facing a series of charges of hacking controversy. In reality, neither side is the whole story.
Brown, a little less than 6 feet tall and thin, with sandy brown hair, grew up in a wealthy neighborhood of Dallas County, the son of a wealthy real estate developer from Texas. This is a somewhat eccentric character - College Dropout a brand with a history of drug abuse and a penchant for ranting, red wine and cigarettes
Before his death the FBI, Brown was a prolific writer who has contributed to publications such as Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Huffington Post and the satirical news site The Onion. He had a brief foray into politics as communications director of a group called Light atheist voices, and was co-author of a book received the mock creationism, Flock of Dodos, the Harvard Law Alan Dershowitz, professor prior to the works of famous authors Thomas Paine and Mark Twain.
"I just wanted to write humor and was absolutely on track to do so, until some events and thoughts in 2009," Brown said in August the year last, shortly before his arrest. What has changed is that his career has been immersed in what is sometimes jokingly "shit computer." - A strange and chaotic world of online activism
There were a number of factors involved, each closely linked. It all started when Brown conceived the idea of ??a study group called Project PM Internet in 2009, dedicated to the investigation of private government contractors working in secret areas of cybersecurity, intelligence and monitoring. Then, in 2010, WikiLeaks published thousands of classified documents from the U.S. government. And at the same time Anonymous burst on the world scene, attacking the Church of Scientology and defend WikiLeaks cyber war declare payment processors like Paypal and Visa, which had blocked the funding whistleblower website under pressure of American politicians.
Brown saw a fusion of interests between the project PM, Anonymous and Wikileaks. WikiLeaks has been believed to make a "great service to humanity" by releasing classified government information, and was inspired by Anonymous, which he considers "unprecedented" because of the way people gathered on an Internet force political change.
Brown soon joined directly anonymous, and in early 2011, I worked with some of the most skilled pirates as a sort of de facto press agent. He had no ability to piracy, but his talent for writing and rhetoric to use. He sent letters to their contacts with the media and television interviews in which he exclaim disorders cybersecurity initiatives that expose government Anonymous said.
Some in the community had an aversion Anonymous instantly diffuse Brown, accusing him of being an egomaniac who seeks the glory paranoid and hogging the spotlight. But his critics rarely given a second look because, in his case, it was the most relevant questions to answer - once dragged into a public dispute with a surreal Mexican drug cartel in a militant removed
"We developed the things that really matter here - they have not received adequate attention," he barked his accent distinctive baritone Rapid Fire south. "The battlefield is the flow of information."
Brown interviews, some were published as "exclusive" new major U.S. television networks like NBC, drew attention. He saw himself as engaged in what he calls "information operations" like a military propaganda campaign. Hackers sometimes get data and pass it to him. He spent days and nights huddled in his small apartment Uptown Dallas came through pirated troves of documents, write blogs about U.S. intelligence contractors and the government "lost power" while working to collect more than one media coverage.
When servers belonging to security think tank Stratfor America have been infiltrated by pirates in December 2011, for example, Brown warned journalists around the world. He told the Times that millions of emails stolen later published by WikiLeaks could be "irrefutable evidence of a number of crimes of extraordinary importance." It was mostly an exaggeration, of course, but he was a skilled operator. He knew how to make headlines, especially the headlines rile his opponents.
By becoming a public defender for hackers involved in cybercrime is more important, however, Brown was on the legal territory extremely fragile. He had developed a close relationship with a dissident group called Anonymous AntiSec - a militant outfit volatile that had developed from LulzSec, Anonymous another branch that has claimed a series of major attacks on government websites and multinational corporations on a massacre of 50 days in the summer of 2011.
AntiSec became very active towards the end of 2011, hacking Stratfor and, thereafter, a law firm based in Virginia involved in the defense of a U.S. Marine who had played a key role in a massacre of civilians during the war in Iraq. The group has thousands of Stratfor clients credit card numbers online and published a number of e-mails to find obtained from the firm, incidentally exposing personal details about the victims of sexual assault in the process.
Apparently, hackers are increasingly callous and careless even skip the "good stewards" who liked to project an image of themselves.
- "I have not been informed of the leak or the nature of the leak," he said at the time. "I do that I will defend and take responsibility for their defense. But if it was me, I would have done differently. I ... I do not need, in fact, should not asking my opinion. "
to escape the prison Mons?gur, a famous pirate elite largemouth bass which was considered one of the leaders of the groups had been secretly cooperating with the FBI to help set up and track record against his former partners. It was an extraordinary development that shook the hacker community and made headlines worldwide.
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