Subject: Chat with Mark Cohen
From: Mark Cohen <mark.simon.cohen@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

me: hey man
me: what's up with you?
Mark: grad school
me: oic
Mark: what have you been up to recently?
me: I had an op-ed in al-Jaz a couple days ago
me: signed as Anonymous
me: plus one in Guardian
me: and got NBC camera crew and Michael Isikoff coming down Tuesday
me: to see my "command center"
me: plus, I recruited the guy who made Dwarf Fortress
me: and some other stuff
me: basically been doing all that stuff I was jabbering about to you a year back
Mark: what is this command center>
Mark: ?
me: right now, going through e-mails of gov't and contractors
me: http://www.typewith.me/50Ox99ktN6
me: my apartment
me: I'm now a strategist/spokesman for Anonymous
me: according Wired, a "theorist"
me: I went totally cyberpunk, you see
Mark: being anointed a theorist by wired is surely an accomplishment
Mark: but yeah, you do always seem to be working some new angle
me: not just by wired itself
me: but by Bruce Sterling
me: himself being a theorist behind cyberpunk
me: from way back
me: I got to talk to him, too
me: going to meet him in Austin at SXSW interactive
me: but yeah, working angles
Mark: last i heard from you, you were working with people on the tunisia protests
Mark: what're you thinking about what's happened in the region in the last couple of weeks?
me: still doing that
me: also in early talks with Jendik Radon of Columbia, who wrote Nepal's constitution
me: to compile suggestive framework for Tunisia
me: as well as a general suggestive framework for other countries that revolt
me: meanwhile still providing technical help and knocking down gov't websites
me: we got Iran the otherday lol
me: also
me: you need to follow the HBGary story
me: see my latest Guardian column and listen to the linked phone recording
me: we did some crazy Shadowrun shit
Mark: I'm looking at it now
me: it goes on forever
me: dozen companies involved
me: more, actually
me: every U.S. intel agency
Mark: yeah, I did read a bit about this when it first came out