Subject: investigation into persona management and surveillance
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 5/3/11, 04:19
To: Matt Rothschild <editorial@progressive.org>

Matthew-

I know you're very busy, but I was wondering if you could put me in touch with any of your writers who have investigated issues involving mass surveillance by the U.S. government and the persona management issue (as revealed recently when USAF request for bids came to light asking contractors to develop software by which a single person could easily pretend to be ten fake people complete with biographies, etc). I'm conducting a sort of crowd-sourced campaign by which to assess the extent of this problem, with the help of some other journalists at The Guardian and elsewhere, and we could use more input and assistance. Thanks.

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302