| Subject: Re: Hey |
| From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 5/2/11, 19:16 |
| To: Ian Murphy <ian.larry.murphy@gmail.com> |
One issue that you might consider bringing attention to during the race: use of advanced and unaccountable surveillance methods by U.S. and English-speaking allies, including the auto-personas that we discovered through the HBGary e-mails and which CENTCOM has since admitted to using on foreign soil (as these are developed by federal contractors who seem to have a tendency to turn around and hire out these capabilities to such things as Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America, it's potentially a huge problem). We're compiling a wiki by which to provide a useful set of info on these issues and those involved in their development and working with about half a dozen prominent journalists to investigate further and bring greater attention to them. Also have some backchannel communications going on with some of the better congressmen who want to investigate. You should give me a ring sometime and I'll brief you on all of this; there are a lot of ins and outs, particularly since we got some informants from Booz Allen and a couple of government agencies and have also called up various execs and intel figures to confront them with the matter (recorded all of these, of course).