talking points for your AJE piece
Subject: talking points for your AJE piece
From: neal rauhauser <nrauhauser@gmail.com>
Date: 5/15/11, 03:24
To: Barret Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>


   There are a group of small A anonymous security people who have taken an interest in the HBGary email dump. Some of them are older professionals who work in the field, some are younger people being mentored for careers in the area.

    A detailed analysis of the HBGary email representing several hundred man (and woman) hours has been distributed to members of the House and Senate, to the FBI, to some of the intended victims, and to one big name investigative journalist. When we noticed the Echelon2 effort by Anonymous we gave the analysis to this group, too. We have no desire to provide interviews, but we may provide additional updates as time allows.


   We strongly urge journalists to look both at Team Themis AND the Magpii social media startup HBGary was pitching to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 

  You may quote with this:   "It is our opinion that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a continuing criminal enterprise in need of RICO attention. The HBGary break in provides the DoJ with a solid starting point for such a case." 


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    And in other news.

     I've talked at length to my oversight people, to the FBI, and to the same former DoJ cybercrime division hear that was involved in the Bradley Manning stuff. I'm going to ask for a pair of blanket immunity letters (ie covers all USA Attorneys, not just home district) for myself and one other person. This will let us handle any information people might wish to send us without any personal liability for how it was obtained. The scheme is that we don't care about civil disobedience and investigative journalism, but organized crime and terrorism ARE concerns.

    It will take a while to find out if they're even willing to do it. I am liable to step back in the mean time - it's just way too hot out there to be running around putting myself in a position where some asshole USAA could try to stick me with a conspiracy charge.




  And, as always, please do not do crimes :-)




    


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