Re: GUARDIAN media request
Subject: Re: GUARDIAN media request
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 5/11/11, 15:55
To: Ed Pilkington <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk>

You need to download an irc client; 2600.net is the server.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Ed Pilkington <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
hi barrett

please excuse this very ignorant email (i'm not an IT specialist reporter as I think i explained). i'm trying to get through to the irc.2600.net chat rooms but when i put that address into my address bar i get redirected to a communications website called Xzibition. i must be doing something very stupid. can you help?

ed


On 10 May 2011 21:29, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Ed-

No problem.

1. irc.2600.net (there are several rooms but #jester may be invite only right now; go to #cybertavern and ask to talk to th3j35t3r. Asherah is the head of Backtrace Security and the one who speaks to the FBI  agent. I've got plenty of logged conversations with both of them that should demonstrate why they should not be involved in any important investigation.

2. Here's number as well as summary of situation:

Here's his number: 240 353 7572. His name is Don, I spoke to him last week. The number was provided to me by Backtrace Security, a small group of people who hate Anon with a passion and who threatened to dox my ex-girlfriend and her daughter. They have put out demonstrably false information on me and Anonymous and harass Anons on Twitter via the @FakeGreggHoush Twitter account. Their founder has been exposed as Jennifer Emick, a Wiccan who holds a grudge against Gregg Housh, one of the founders of Chanology, and who seems to have been upset about being made fun of on the internet quite a bit. FakeGreggHoush/Emick also goes by the name Asherah and hangs out with the "patriot" hacker th3J35t3r at his HQ at irc.2600.net #jester. th3J35t3r has himself admitted to launching DDOS attacks against Wikileaks and other "approved" targets but has never been investigated. So, basically, the FBI is getting tips from someone who has admittedly gotten things wrong, who is involved in harassing females uninvolved in Anonymous, and whose partner, "zud," threatened my ex-girlfriend due to her being an atheist who spends time helping "sandniggers," and who associates with a known criminal who avoids federal attention by going after approved targets. Don himself says that I'm being investigated by FBI agents in California, presumably involved in the grand jury that convened February 10; I've asked him to have them get in touch so I can explain that Backtrace is not exactly a reliable source of information and he says they've intended to get in touch with me but I've heard from none of them. Let me know if you'd like to see supporting conversation logs, links, etc backing up what I've explained here. Thanks.

3. Download for e-mails is here: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6156166/HBGary_leaked_email. It might be easier for you to see the various articles that already exist on his involvement with FBI, which include many of the relevant e-mails.


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Ed Pilkington <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
hi Barrett

great to talk to you just now.

just to remind me of the things you said you could send me:

1) the address of the IRC chat room where Jester hangs out
2) the name and number of the FBI agent you talked to
3) an email link to the emails with Aaron Barr and tips on how i download it using bit torrence

thanks so much

really appreciate your help, and good luck with the new venture

all best

Ed

Ed Pilkington
The Guardian


On 20 April 2011 17:44, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Ed-

If you'd like, you can give me a call and I'll give you what I have in terms of ideas on that.


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Ed Pilkington <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
hi Barrett,

I'm Ian Cobain's colleague at the Guardian, based in New York.

I'm sorry i missed you this time in New York. do please let me know when you are next in the city - I'd love to meet up and take you to lunch or whatever suits

in the meantime i wondered whether you could offer any help with a project i'm working on.

i'm having a look at the way the FBI has infiltrated the world of hacking. normally people talk about the opposite - how hackers have infiltrated government computers or whatever - but it strikes me that the way the FBI has inveigled its way into the hacker community by turning individuals through threatened prison terms into informants is vv interesting and significant. i read somewhere that a quarter of all hackers in the US may now be informants - not sure if that figure is accurate but i'd like to find out.

the subject was heightened too by the Adrian Lamo role in informing on Bradley Manning to the military authorities and FBI

i'm right at the start of this project, and at this stage am just putting out feelers to people in the hacker world who might be able to help. can you offer any thoughts/guidance or tips on who else i should be talking to. i'd be hugely grateful for any advice

thanks so much and hope to talk to you or meet you soon


ed

Ed Pilkington
New York bureau chief
The Guardian

On 6 April 2011 15:59, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm based in Texas but will be in NYC until the 12th. 


On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Ed Pilkington <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
hi barrett

thanks for getting back to me

sadly, i'm being sent out of nyc tomorrow on a story

but i'd like very much to keep in touch. are you based in new york? could we meet up some other time?

ed


On 6 April 2011 11:36, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Certainly. It'll be held on the steps of City Hall tomorrow at 3:00 pm. Here's some additional info; let me know if you have questions.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104930409586685

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Ed Pilkington <ed.pilkington@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
hi barrett,

my colleague Ian Cobian has passed your details on to me. i'm based in new york for the guardian. i was v interested to hear through Ian that Anons are holding a press conference/rally here soon

i'd like to attend if at all possible. could you help with that and let me have details of where and when etc?

thanks so much

ed

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