Subject: Re: here we go... many thanks
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 5/27/11, 15:13
To: Matt Seaton <matt.seaton@guardian.co.uk>

Matt-

You may recall the 70,000 HBGary e-mails that Anon leaked in early February, and I've probably noted that I've been conducting a sort of crowd-sourced investigation into the intelligence industry called OpMetalGear. Over the past two weeks I've been going through them again as there's clearly a great deal left to be discovered, and meanwhile another team headed by a colleague of mine noticed something called Romas/COIN being discussed. Having analyzed a couple hundred relevant e-mails, made some calls, and done some more research, I've been able to get a picture of what it is: a massive intelligence apparatus that monitors some large portion of the Arab world by way of a large set of advanced capabilities including natural language processing, data mining, custom social networks and websites, and mobile phone applications. What's more, it's being replaced this year by another program called Odyssey.

I've jus

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Matt Seaton <matt.seaton@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
sounds promising; pls keep me posted

will try to come up with a paying commission for you soon

best, Matt


On 9 May 2011 04:03, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Great. I'm going to start writing more on the subject of effective online activism, why it's going to serve as an increasing counterpoint to corrupt institutions, and how anyone may start a small cohesive group by which to fight what's beginning to amount to an information war. Will get back to you in a few weeks.


On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Matt Seaton <matt.seaton@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
piece did well yesterday -- 20k hits


On 6 May 2011 13:51, Matt Seaton <matt.seaton@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
ace-- thanks


On 6 May 2011 18:49, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
Great, thanks. Have sent off to the various journalists who have been asking me about all this.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Matt Seaton <matt.seaton@guardian.co.uk> wrote:
sorry for delay -- lawyers just wanted to fudge a couple of things

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/06/anonymous-sony

all best, Matt

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