Subject: Re: Update?
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 4/13/11, 19:23
To: Michael Tracey <mtracey8@gmail.com>

Michael-

Thanks for reaching out. As you've probably heard from Javier, I'm come out of the closet as an Anonymous operative and it's been a very busy year thus far. I have recently re-tooled Project PM to do two things: conduct further investigation into what we call "metal gear" software/methodology and its malicious use by various parties, and to promote and assist in the creation of dozens of autonomous online entities that can pursue various benevolent goals while also linking together as necessary to pursue those goals shared in common. To this end, we're working with a number of new people, many of them rather high-caliber, including several very good investigative journalists. This article provides some info on what we're looking into: http://bit.ly/h4UXwp ... as does this one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks.

If you'd be willing, let's speak more about this. You might also consider downloading IRC software and joining us at irc.freenode.net #projectpm and irc.freenode.net #opmetalgear, venues from which some of us are working regularly. Also, let me know if you'd still be interested in participating in our Science Journalism Program, although that sort of thing is going to necessarily take a back seat to our current goals, many of us having been frankly rather frightened by the research we've been conducting into Metal Gear.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Michael Tracey <mtracey8@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Barrett,

A few days ago I met Javier Botero and you came up -- it definitely was not a subject I expected to be broached at his sister's party. I apologize for falling off the map after you got in touch with me about the Project PM stuff; a million different things were happening with The Nation and such. What's the current status of Project PM, and what's the best way I can help?

-Michael Tracey



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Regards,

Barrett Brown
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