Anon-
Thanks for contacting me. As you can probably tell from my article the other day, I'm certain that what is happening now is simply the beginning of something that will eventually overturn the existing order; great numbers of clever people who a decade ago would have been essentially incapable of finding each other, much less coordinating in real time, are now meeting and discovering that they have more in common with each other than with most of their own countrymen. This is an unprecedented development, indicative of the coming obsolescence of the nation-state - and the internet is still young. It's only a matter of time before groups such as Anonymous come to realize what they are capable of and then carry that out. During Chanology, I knew it was only a matter of time before Anonymous took the next logical step and turned its attacks on some misbehaving government.
I'm going to be doing a series of articles on all of this, including one which will provide what I hope to be the most comprehensive and accurate overview yet written of Anonymous, its origins, its culture, and its potential future; other articles will explain the future implications of all of this. I'll have some questions for you soon, but in the meantime, feel free to provide me with any other insights into the movement that you think would be useful in understanding it, and I'll quote you as "an Anon" in some of these articles, assuming that this is acceptable to you.
Regards,
Barrett Brown
Brooklyn, NY
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:11 PM,
<vman9200@aol.com> wrote:
Hello. I read your blog. "Anonymous, Australia, and the fall of blah blah blah blah"
I saw that you said that you are going to be writing more about the Anonymous culture. I would like to congratulate you on your ability to see the importance of our...um..... "organization". I would like to warn you that you about to dive into a culture that has absolutely no morality. You can not view the culture as you would view anything else. You can take nothing as truth. Everyone will always attempt to deceive you all the time.
I would like to extend my hand to you as a guide into a world that defies all logic. All journalists or bloggers or anybody who writes about the culture, always get their facts wrong. This angers the Legion.
In the old days, anybody ever mentioning a word about us would be harassed mercilessly. You should see the shit we did to Hal Turner.
And the best advice I can give you is to spend as little time as possible on 4chan. It is no longer an accurate depiction of what we are. Nothing that Anonymous does ever starts on 4chan. We no longer call 4chan home. We left and are now scattered. The Australian DDoS attacks were not organized there. We just recruited more potential Anons for that one attack.
-For the lulz, Anonymous.