Re: Anonymous, OpMetalGear, and Gamma International
Subject: Re: Anonymous, OpMetalGear, and Gamma International
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 5/2/11, 18:44
To: Naz Khan <nyk284@gmail.com>

Hi, Naz-

Let me know if you'd like a piece on OpIran, which was re-launched yesterday, or one on the future of Anonymous and the necessity of transmitting what we've learned and developed regarding online activism to the public at large. Here's a post I just did on OpIran, including info on how anyone can easily assist:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/02/972425/-Help-Anonymous-help-Iran,-now

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Naz Khan <nyk284@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds interesting. I'll mail you in the morning ! Bed time! 

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 27, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Naz-

Barrett Brown here. Thanks again for running my essay earlier this year on our North Africa operations. Wanted to check in with you regarding a couple of things.

First, would you be interested in an article on Operation Metal Gear, an investigation we're leading into the use of persona management (fake online people) as used in conjunction with advanced surveillance and data collection? We're working with several journalists on this while also conducting a crowd-sourced investigation by which Anonymous and other parties work together in a loose network by which to gather and compile information on the companies and government agencies involved. Here's our website:


And here's a good explanation from about a month ago by Steve Ragan, one of the journalists we work with:


And here's the wiki at which we're compiling information on those involved: http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page

Also, I wanted to make sure that al-Jazeera is aware that a U.K. firm called Gamma International, a component of the Gamma Group, has been discovered to have offered IT intrusion software to Mubarak's Interior Ministry which would have presumably been used to break into the e-mail accounts of dissidents. Here's the piece:


Anonymous and my own group Project PM intends to retaliate against this firm in order to send a message that this sort of thing will receive an appropriate response in the future.

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302



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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302