American Political Prisoner Jeremy Hammond Just Sent a Birthday Gift to the World. Justin King January 9, 2015 (ANTIMEDIA) Jeremy Hammond has given the world gifts before.
His hacks and leaks have benefited people all over the world. From Bhopal to Boston, his leaks mattered. Legal Documents. How Antisec Died — Notes from a Strange World. First, an introduction: I write about hackers, and for the past few years that has meant I write about Anonymous.
At the time of the Stratfor hack I was working for Wired covering Anonymous — notably the antics of Antisec anons much of the time. I had missed the Lulzsec period, which I spent under federal investigation myself. From February to July of that year I stayed away from the hacker world, unsure if my computer would be seized and unwilling to draw my sources into a possible fishing expedition. By the winter of 2011, I was making up for lost time. I’d become deeplyinvolved with the day to day lives of active anons working on all sortsof actions, from Occupy support to street protests. This was in part because I didn’t want my work to become involved in any court cases, but also because for the nature of my coverage, I didn’t believe, and still don’t, that the legal identity of individuals tells us much about the collective I was writing about. It never seemed quite right to me. Jeremy Hammond's Sentencing Statement.
[NEW YORK, NY] Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old political activist, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to participating in the Anonymous hack into the computers of the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor).
The Ceremonial Courtroom at the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York was filled today with an outpouring of support by journalists, activists and other whistleblowers who see Jeremy Hammond’s actions as a form of civil disobedience, motivated by a desire to protest and expose the secret activities of private intelligence corporations. Jeremy Hammond, by Molly Crabapple The hearing opened with arguments as to what sections of the court record will remain redacted after sentencing.
Targets supplied by FBI to Jeremy Hammond. Jailed Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond: 'My days of hacking are done' Jeremy Hammond, the Anonymous hacktivist who released millions of emails relating to the private intelligence firm Stratfor, has denounced his prosecution and lengthy prison sentence as a “vengeful, spiteful act” designed to put a chill on politically-motivated hacking.
Hammond was sentenced on Friday at federal court in Manhattan to the maximum 10 years in jail, plus three years supervised release. He had pleaded guilty to one count under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) flowing from his 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc, known as Stratfor. In an interview with the Guardian in the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York, conducted on Thursday, he said he was resigned to a long prison term which he sees as a conscious attempt by the US authorities to put a chill on political hacking. He had no doubt that his sentence would be long, describing it as a "vengeful, spiteful act". Hammond discovered that Monsegur was an FBI informant the day after his own arrest. Jeremy Hammond & the Need to ‘Promote Respect for the Rule of Law’ Jeremy Hammond (Creative Commons-licensed Photo from freejeremy.net) As she was sentencing activist Jeremy Hammond to ten years in prison and three years of supervisory release for his involvement in hacking into the private intelligence firm Stratfor and various local, state and federal government websites, Federal District Court Judge Loretta Preska declared from her bench that there was a need to “promote respect for the rule of law.”
Preska further stated there was a need for a sentence that would act as a “public deterrence” and protect the public from “further harms.” Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison. Photo: Jim Newberry, FreeHammond.com Hacker Jeremy Hammond was sentenced this morning to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for a damaging, politically motivated computer intrusion at the private intelligence firm Stratfor in 2011.
The 28-year-old Chicagoan pleaded guilty earlier this year to hacking the servers of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., where he wiped out files and databases and stole 5 million private email messages and 60,000 customer credit card numbers. Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites. The Anonymous hacktivist sentenced on Friday to 10 years in federal prison for his role in releasing thousands of emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor has told a Manhattan court that he was directed by an FBI informant to break into the official websites of several governments around the world.
Jeremy Hammond, 28, told a federal court for the southern district of New York that a fellow hacker who went under the internet pseudonym “Sabu” had supplied him with lists of websites that were vulnerable to attack, including those of many foreign countries. The defendant mentioned specifically Brazil, Iran and Turkey before being stopped by judge Loretta Preska, who had ruled previously that the names of all the countries involved should be redacted to retain their secrecy.
A Dispatch from Jeremy Hammond's Sentencing. All photos by the author This morning, I sat up front in the federal court house of the Southern District of New York, to hear the sentencing of the Anonymous-LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond.
In case you missed it, Hammond was today given the guideline sentencing of 120 months in jail for his 2011 hack of the security think tank Stratfor, with three years of supervised release following. I arrived at the court house early enough to watch as everyone arrived. These were the independent journalists I'd come to know from the court martial case of Chelsea Manning, reporters like Alexa O'Brien and Kevin Gosztola. I eventually found myself in the large Ceremonial Courtroom on the building's ninth floor, seated behind Chris Hedges of truthdig and O'Brien. The courtroom filled. "Which one is this? Jeremy Hammond. Jeremy Hammond (born January 8, 1985) is a political activist and computer hacker from Chicago.
He was convicted and sentenced[1] in November 2013 to 10 years in US Federal Prison for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing the leaks through the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.[2][3][4] He founded the computer security training website HackThisSite[5] in 2003.[6] Background[edit] Childhood[edit] Education[edit] Hammond attended the University of Illinois at Chicago on a full scholarship. Music[edit] Jeremy, along with brother Jason, has had a lifelong interest in music, performing in numerous bands through the years. About » Free Jeremy Hammond! (born December 1985) is a political activist from Chicago charged in a criminal complaint with crimes relating to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting, Inc. ( Stratfor ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the founder of the computer security training website HackThisSite , [ 3 ] created in 2003 following his graduation from Glenbard East High School . [ 4 ] Arrest On March 5, 2012, Hammond was arrested by FBI agents in Bridgeport, Chicago [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] ahead of an indictment unsealed the following day in the Lower Manhattan federal district court. [ 8 ] He is one of six individuals from the United States , England and Ireland indicted, [ 3 ] [ 9 ] due to a cooperating witness known online as Sabu . [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Sentences On March 25, 2010, Hammond was sentenced to four days in the Cook County Department of Corrections, for taking part in a confrontation with the controversial Holocaust writer David Irving .
Background See also HackThisSite Hacktivism References Perlroth, Nicole. Goudie, Chuck. Free Jeremy Hammond - A support site for accused activist Jeremy Hammond.