Re: From Tempo Magazine in Turkey

2011/2/26 Bahar Dagli <bdagli@doganburda.com>

Hello Mr. Brown,

I’ve wroten about ‘Anonymous’ last week. My questions is below. There are 16 question to answer. Thanks to for your help…

But could you answer me in a week’s time? If you have a problem the questions, you can turn to me cause of I constantly check my mail box.

Regards,

- First can you introduce yourself?

I am Barrett Brown, a writer, author, and former journalist. I've also been involved with the Anonymous culture for six years now.

- On which subjects are you studying at?

I did not study at university. I write articles for various publications such as The Guardian and al-Jazeera as well as some in America and now work in film as well.

- When does the Anonymous Hacker Group occurred? It seems like it started with arresment of Julian Assange.

Anonymous has been around for several years but did not turn into its current form until we began attacking the Church of Scientology. Lately, events surrounding Wikileaks have prompted us to work harder and brought us new recruits.

- Can you talk about the group’s mission?

Yes, but no one can truly speak for this group. Many participants agree that any individual has the right to obtain information from the various governments even if it is considered classified. Many agree that people should get together and assist others in obtaining freedom. Many are anarchists of one sort of another. But again, Anonymous is legion, and our shared values tend to prevent us from trying to herd everyone into a single ideology.

- How many members does it have? Where do these members come from? What is the mean age of these members?

Anonymous comes from all over the world. Members tend to be young.

- If someone wants to join them which way does he or she have to follow?

- In 2008 ‘Alliance of Youth Movements Summit’ organized and from that organization ‘movements.org’ named site was borned. Their goal was to create social changes at various regions of the world. Can ’Anonymous’ be an extension of the group or renamed version?

- Now they play an active role in Middle East actions. At Egypt revolts, the prohibition of twitter and facebook, they presented private servers and at the end the public made thank you video. Why are they doing this?

- Can the state be behind this? Can we say that the community established interest-oriented?

- Or can we say that the Anonymous is a simple digital activist movement?

- Why does this group support Wikileaks?

- What kind of technology does Anonymous use that no one can catch them?

- Some members caught from that group. How did this happen?

- Are they still under arrest? What kind of punishment did they take? How does the process work?

- All the while, why Obama defends the internet freedom?

- And i also wonder can anyone improve a method for DdoS attacks?

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