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. Participants tend to be young. There's no way of telling how many people work with Anonymous but at this point it is probably in the tens of thousands.

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

Anyone may be Anonymous by assisting with Anonymous' goals on their own. They can also join our IRC servers to participate with others.

- 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?

No, Anonymous has been around since before 2008 and the direction in which it was moving was already clear to those who paid good attention to it. I've never heard of that event.

- 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?

Anonymous loved liberty and wants others to share in that liberty. We also know that we can help spread it by providing information and tools to populations in North Africa and elsewhere. The real question is, why is everyone else not doing these things?

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

I would think that the new governments, particularly in Tunisia, will be quite strongly behind Anonymous. I doubt that any state created Anonymous and it is certainly not run by any state.

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

That is accurate.

- Why does this group support Wikileaks?

Because of Wikileaks, everyone on the planet may now, for the first time, see what it is that their governments are secretly doing. We think it is better for the world's people to know of these things than to proceed in ignorance.

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

People do catch Anonymous, but we minimize it by using TOR and i2p as well as other security programs.

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

We don't know how many are actually Anonymous, but it looks like those who were caught used insufficient security methods.

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

Only the five in the U.K. were arrested and they have not gone to trial yet. In the U.S., 40 individuals were raided by the federal police and had their computers and phones taken as evidence. We do not know what will come of this but we are providing lawyers to those who request them.

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

Obama does not defend internet freedom to an extent we'd

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

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