The legacy of imprisoned investigative journalist Barrett Brown. Barret Lancaster Brown Doxed BarretBrown aka BarretBownLOL Barrett Lancast. The Internet, Skepticism, and Self-Perpetuating Revolution - Barrett Brown - The Great Pundit Hunt. Though every nation is of some degree of contradictory nature if one looks hard enough, the United States offers ironies of particular significance. Here we have a nation that produces an incredibly large percentage of peer-reviewed papers relative to its population size, which produces a similarly large share of its patents, which attracts some of the best scientific minds in the world to some of the best scientific institutions in history, which has conceived and implemented such an incredible array of technological innovations that it would be impossible to calculate the degree to which our finest minds have contributed to the overall cause of mankind, its modern capabilities and its future aspirations.
Anonymous 'Leader' Quits. Is Barrett Brown The Next Julian Assange? - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2011. One of the few public faces of the hacktivists' collective Anonymous has quit the group.
It's not much of a surprise. Since the attack on Sony (which most Anonymous activists deny) the group has been in disarray, with various factions taking down each other’s websites, battling over their chat channels, and “doxing” -- revealing each other’s identities online. Brown had risen to prominence, first as a sympathetic journalist covering the group, then as someone more clearly self-identified with Anonymous (given Anonymous's amorphous structure, self-identification is all it takes to be a part of it.) He wrote articles for "The Guardian" and "The Huffington Post" saying things like this: "Anonymous hacktivists will continue to bring down the hypocrisy and tyranny of those who prefer state to citizen and the status quo to true liberty.
" Others in Anonymous, however, objected to Brown taking the limelight. As I blogged a few weeks ago, the group is also divided about tactics and targets. Prolific "spokesman" for Anonymous leaves the hacker group. In one year, Barrett Brown made himself into one of the best-known public faces of the hacker collective Anonymous—and now he's stepping away from the group.
"There's little quality control in a movement like that, which was not a huge problem when the emphasis was on assisting with North African revolutions and those who came on board thus tended to be of a certain sort," he told Ars this week. "But as things like OpSony arise, you attract a lot of people whose interest is in fucking with video game companies—which is not to say that there aren't legitimate reasons for OpSony or that the majority involved aren't quality people, but to the extent that someone sits things out when we're working to promote liberty and fight dictatorships but then hops on board when we start going after an electronics firm that's perpetrated far lesser villainy, one has to question those peoples' priorities.
" Public face. "Anonymous, Australia, and the Inevitable Fall of the Nation-State" Barrett Brown: Anonymous and Their Alleged Propagandist « Krypt3ia. DALLAS — A leader of the computer hackers group known as Anonymous is threatening new attacks on major U.S. corporations and government officials as part of at an escalating “cyberwar” against the citadels of American power.
“It’s a guerrilla cyberwar — that’s what I call it,” said Barrett Brown, 29, who calls himself a senior strategist and “propagandist” for Anonymous. He added: “It’s sort of an unconventional, asymmetrical act of warfare that we’ve involved in. And we didn’t necessarily start it. I mean, this fire has been burning.”A defiant and cocky 29-year-old college dropout, Brown was cavalier about accusations that the group is violating federal laws. He insisted that Anonymous members are only policing corporate and governmental wrongdoing — as its members define it.Breaking laws, but ‘ethically’“Our people break laws, just like all people break laws,” he added. Barrett, really? You just popped your head up for all federal agencies around the world to say Hi! Duh.
Like this: Barrett Brown. Barrett Brown: The Aims of Anonymous. WikiLeaks may be a small player, really, in the bigger scheme of things. But to some degree it is also a bellwether, a forecast of things to come as information and technology continue to nip at the heels of the state. Perhaps we really are approaching a time when government becomes less relevant, less necessary, where other institutions both real and virtual can begin to supplant the role of the state in our lives, subversively at first but then more openly as time passes. -- Erik Kain, Secrecy and the State There is no period in human history that matches the years between 1990 and 2010 in the degree to which the common terminology used at end would have been unrecognizable to those who lived at its beginning.
Because the dynamic which has caused this to be the case does not seem to have crested, we ourselves should not expect to recognize some great portion of the terminology that will be in regular use in 2030. Hacker group vows 'cyberwar' on US, businesses - Technology & science - Security. DALLAS — A leader of the computer hackers group known as Anonymous is threatening new attacks on major U.S. corporations and government officials as part of at an escalating “cyberwar” against the citadels of American power. “It’s a guerrilla cyberwar — that’s what I call it,” said Barrett Brown, 29, who calls himself a senior strategist and “propagandist” for Anonymous.
Barrett Brown. D Magazine : Barrett Brown is Anonymous. Comment The night before Michael Isikoff came to Dallas, I got an e-mail from Barrett Brown.
“Apparently Isikoff is freaked out about having another journalist here,” it said. “But I’ll secretly record the proceedings and provide to you.” A little context: Michael Isikoff is a former investigative reporter for Newsweek. Now he’s a correspondent for NBC News. Me, I first encountered Brown in 1998, when he was a 16-year-old intern at the Met, a now-defunct alternative weekly where I worked.
I had been to Brown’s Uptown bachelor pad before. On the morning of Isikoff’s visit, though, I see that much has changed. Isikoff’s cameraman and producer are the first through the door. Ever the congenial host, Brown introduces us. Having mumbled the introduction, Brown steps out onto the tiny second-floor patio to smoke a cigarette, leaving me with Loehr, Isikoff, and his two-man crew. “What did he just say?”
Brown has used heroin at various points in his life. I think. It’s a weekday, early.