Yes. Joseph Menn, one of the authors of the article, called me before writing it. He doesn't bother to actually quote any of my points even though I spent ten minutes explaining these things to him. More importantly, he is the fellow who believed Aaron Barr when Barr claimed to have identified our "founders" when it was already rather common knowledge that Anonymous was not founded, but grew out of 4chan and came to modern fruition through the work of several people who launched Chanology behind the scenes, none of whom are those whom Barr and Menn portrayed as such in support of an FBI contract and alleged "scoop," respectively. If some other journalist had obtained these secret sources and presented the case against us based on hearsay, it might be worth looking into. But Menn has already shown that he is willing to report on hilariously false stories put to him by enemies of Anonymous. There's also little reason to believe he knows the difference between someone who is actually a participant and supporter of Anonymous and the various people who claim to be such in order to give weight to their claims against the movement. On the other hand, we are forever indebted to Menn for having fallen for Barr's self-aggrandizing and demonstrably false nonsense and having been the only journalist who would run with such assertions; had that not happened, Anonymous would have never bothered to investigate the fellow and his criminal firm, and we would not have thereby exposed the various conspiracies being run by Hunton & Williams, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Justice Department, Palantir, Belrico, Booz Allen Hamilton, and the other firms that have since been written about by other, more competent reporters. That Menn is still being allowed to write about Anonymous despite his article having been shown to be nonsense through our subsequent actions - and is in fact being allowed to determine who is and isn't an Anonymous "member" despite having demonstrably fucked that up before - is frankly astonishing.
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Bryan-Low, Cassell
<Cassell.Bryan-Low@wsj.com> wrote:
Thanks for this. Is there any response from you or any core Anonymous members on the FT article today saying that two veteran Anonymous members have acknowledged that Anonymous members are likely behind the Sony data-theft hacks?
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From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 07:32 PM
To: Bryan-Low, Cassell
Subject: Re:
My latest response to the Sony affair:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/06/anonymous-sony
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Barrett Brown
<barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm afraid I don't have any better access to that information than you do as I was in New York for the Bradley Manning/Wikileaks/Anonymous press conference at city hall as well as meetings with our lawyers and other activists and have been otherwise engaged in Operation Metal Gear and some other projects during most of the time since. I've never been particularly interested in the Sony campaign except to the extent that the credit card heist seems to be a false flag by one of our government-oriented enemies, and the only specific information I've sought ought has been that related to this particular angle. I'd try to find out for you but I've got to finish op-eds for Guardian and al-Jazeera tonight, but I think that info should be available by searching other articles from those outlets that reported on the campaign when it began, or by going to anonnews.org and searching through the "Latest External News Sources" section (click "more" next to the title and it'll bring up everything).
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Bryan-Low, Cassell
<Cassell.Bryan-Low@wsj.com> wrote:
Hello,
I wanted to check some details with you on the timeline of Sony-related events:
*When did Anonymous issue its SonyOps press release saying it planned to launch attacks on Sony?
I've seen it reported as April 4, but wanted to check as there doesn't appear to be a date on the release itself.
* When did Anonymous start operations against Sony? And, which form of attack did it start with, the DDOS attacks against the Sony websites' servers?
*And, when did the 'doxing' of the private information of Sony executives?
* When did Anonymous stop operations against Sony?
Thanks,
Cassell
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