Subject: Re: TASC
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 5/29/11, 16:45
To: Ian Murphy <ian.larry.murphy@gmail.com>

Howdy-

I'm down in Galveston for a little beach vacation so my internet has been spotty.

I've been hassled almost since the very beginning by various anti-Anons as well as some Anons who either don't understand or don't care about the nature of my role, but insomuch as that I have a large number of followers both in Anon  and otherwise, as well as my own infrastructure and a great degree of control over our media coverage, there's really nothing anyone could do to push me out. It just got to the point where I was working largely with my own crew, at our own venues, and I decided that I could best pursue what I'm interested in doing by leading my own organization, so I brought my people into Project PM, which I'd launched two years back but had recently neglected, and retooled it for the purposes of continuing this crowd-sourced investigation into the intelligence contracting industry as well as facilitating the creation of groups like ours. The end goal is to build a coalition made up of dozens of quality groups capable of working independently and sharing info as needed in order to fight the national security state.

As you know, the political process is broken. Someone like yourself who answers questions thoughtfully and honestly, as you did in that questionnaire provided by the local outlet, is considered "unserious." There is absolutely no way that the system

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Ian Murphy <ian.larry.murphy@gmail.com> wrote:
The fake website is clever. If you have an idea for that, I'd be into throwing one together -- not immediately, however.

How do you quit a post you created? Were you pressured, hacked, hassled, etc.?

The campaign is depressing. I've basically just been sitting around my house snorting drugs. It was cool being able to inject a few important issues into the media coverage, but I've mostly been ignored, which was more frustrating than I'd expected. The election is Tuesday, and I can't fucking wait for it to end. 


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
That's not a bad idea. I don't really have the voice for it, though. But with a little preparation, we could set up a website and make up company - many of these firms have almost zero web presence, just a shit main page and "contact fascistasshole@sellouteveryone.info".

Anyway, just quit Anon to run my group Project PM. http://blogs.computerworld.com/18307/face_of_anonymous_quits_exclusive_interview_with_barrett_brown

Anything new via campaign?


On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Ian Murphy <ian.larry.murphy@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting. You ever consider doing a sting to get these guys to talk more openly--you know, pose as someone else? That might be fun...


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm doing two pieces for al-Jazeera on persona management and the intelligence community's unfortunate habit of designing mass surveillance programs in order to win federal contracts. Called up John Lovegrove of TASC, a contractor that was in talks with Aaron Barr on setting up something called Romas/COIN, and he wasn't too happy that I know about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCpyJAOxnT0

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Regards,

Barrett Brown
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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302




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Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302