Re: My edits
Subject: Re: My edits
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 9/5/11, 23:50
To: Gregg Housh <greggatghc@gmail.com>
CC: Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com>

I'll take care of most of these edits in the morning. But regarding the portions on Kayla and Topiary - both of these figures have already publicly admitted their role in the HBGary hack a number of times. Kayla even did a whole interview on "her" role, giving more details than we provide here. So not only does this not add to any legal problems they're facing - it also refrains from noting all the details that are already publicly known on these incidents from the various articles that have appeared. All in all, by noting their particular roles in such a way that reveals no new information, we are doing absolutely nothing to hurt them. And since we're doing a book that is predicated on providing an inside view of Anonymous, it would be problematic going forward if we're not even willing to add important information that is already on public record. And of course I say all this as someone who is also friendly with Topiary and many of the other people we're going to be writing about. Let me know if this makes sense.

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Gregg Housh <greggatghc@gmail.com> wrote:
I have attached the last version of the proposal that was sent to me today, the one that I read and used to come up with this list of edits. I doubt either of you need it, but I wanted to make sure everyone knew what file I read to come up with these edits.

Some of these edits were already given and hadn't actually made it in yet.  But all of them need to be addressed, including a couple show stoppers.  So please get to these edits before it goes out.

I have attached the notes as a text file.  I am absolute no good with all these damn word processors or any of their interesting annotation/edit features.  So its a text file and it has them all in order.

Gregg




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