| Subject: RE: [Contact Project PM] request to do email interview please? |
| From: Security Is Sexy <securityissexy@hotmail.com> |
| Date: 5/17/11, 13:08 |
| To: <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Last year, Brown went from journalist reporting of Anonymous's
activities to being an informal spokesperson for the group. He gave interviews
and wrote press releases, but maintained that he was not a leader as the group
Anonymous was leaderless. Yet there were other members of Anonymous who accused
Brown of giving too much attention to the group and of hogging the spotlight.
There was also talk of Anonymous members being worried about having their
identities exposed, worried about your focus on government wrongdoing. Anonymous
seems to be splintering into different factions, with some defectors warring
against other Anonymous members. Is this why you are leaving Anonymous to focus
on your Project PM? (if you mention plans to focus on "an effort to create an
umbrella group that will support other organizations that want to expose
pro-government and pro-corporate bias in the media" or something like that
- then I would form a question from that answer - but for now, I will make a
question as if you had answered that -- I am very interested in that part - I
just don't want to quote ThreatPost but have a my own unique quotes from you).
How many other former Anonymous members are going with you to
focus on Project PM?
Project PM is your brainchild, but has over 90 members ranging
from "a former
CIA Directorate of Operations and the current Director of the University Center
for Innovation in Teaching and Education at Case Western Reserve, to a Project
Manager specialized in Internet strategy and development for firms, such as the
Mozilla Foundation and John Hopkins University, and a jazz guitarist turned
award-winning blogger." How do
these member as well as those that are leaving Anonymous to join Project PM,
feel about your plans to expose pro-government and pro-corporation bias in the media?
Do you have certain
goals or plans in mind, specifics of exposing pro-government bias reporting and
government wrongdoing?
With the Obama
administration flip-flop from a campaign promise about protecting Whistleblowers
to prosecuting them, do you worry about government interference when you try to
expose shadowy workings of government wrongdoings?
It's difficult to get an
interview with government officials and even with some corporations unless they
first have the "point" of the article to be written. They tend to not
want to give out any information if the article disagrees with or bashes them.
Is that part of the reason for Project
PM's Science Journalism Improvement Program?
How will that project
work? Any idea when those connections to people with truth will be made to
reporters who do want to publish the unvarnished truth?
Do you feel like the
government has your under surveillance?
(off record - I can tell
you for a fact that it kind of freaked me out when command and control tried to
contact me because of an article they didn't like and wanted changed. I didn't
change it, but it did alarm me.)
How do you feel about
the ACLU's
recent news from FOIA FBI documents that explained heavy redaction was due
to the government not wanting us to know which "electronic communication
service providers" help the government with dragnet surveillance programs
- because if they told us, we might sue?
In yet another ACLU
release, the "FBIs
concern isnt just that you might sue, but that the companies might sue! Why? Because their comfortable relationship
with the governments surveillance apparatus would be exposed."
Is this the type of
wrongdoing that you hope to help expose to public view?
Is the Africa
Development Project work with Johnny Long's Hackers for Charity? How does a
person volunteer to help?
How would you summarize Project PM's goals? (I
know it's on the page - if you would rather me blockquote that? I appreciate
the interview and your time and wisdom - I want to give you a chance to also
focus on Project PM)
(If you dislike all of these or many of these, I can try again.
I had wanted to mention why you are leaving anonymous and hone in on the desire
to expose government wrongdoing, yet also give Project PM some spotlight)
Please let me know. My great appreciate for your valuable time, wisdom and prompt response. I will publish again on CW this week and would love for it to be this interview - but if you don't time, just let me know and we'll publish this next week.