| Subject: RE: Last round of edits |
| From: Daniel Conaway <dconaway@WritersHouse.com> |
| Date: 9/8/11, 10:35 |
| To: 'Barrett Brown' <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Barrett: the “bust” thing doesn’t read the way you told Gregg it would read, below; it STILL mentions an immunity deal.
Dan Conaway
Literary Agent
Writers House
(212) 696-3825
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 10:18 AM
To: Daniel Conaway
Cc:
Subject: Re: Last round of edits
Here you go.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Daniel Conaway <dconaway@writershouse.com> wrote:
Barrett, I assume you'll make these changes to the 9-7 file and send it to me asap? We're going live this morning. If you can't get it to
me immediately, more or less, I need to know that.
-Dan
Dan Conaway
Literary Agent
Writers House
From: Barrett Brown [mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:28 AM
To: Gregg Housh <greggatghc@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Conaway
Subject: Re: Last round of edits
Regarding the cocaine and whatnot, I took that out in an earlier version I sent ("9-5 (1)"), but we had a problem from me having working off a different version on yesterday's
round of edits and so patched up piecemeal, must have gotten lost. What I replaced it with was:
The Church was presumably well aware of my history. I'd spent a good portion of my teens and early 20s
eluding an FBI cybercrime unit assigned to break up a software pirating, or “warez,” ring in which I played an integral part, assisting in the acquisition and distribution of pirated software; I was known to authorities and software publishing legal teams
by my hacker's moniker and little else until being captured after a whirl of unfortunate events.
... but the version Gregg suggested is better, has more detail.
Regarding Page 8 edit, I suppose change to "one of the group's major operational centers." I characterized it as I did due to the central role it played in HBGary, OpTunisia/OpEgypt/etc, OpMetalGear, and other things; as in, it seemed to be more at the center
than any other single venue from January on; I didn't mean to assert that it was bigger/more influential than everything else combined, but if the term I use can be construed otherwise, definitely change.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Gregg Housh <greggatghc@gmail.com> wrote:
Here is what I have for the current draft, the 9-7 file. One of these, on page 27 specifically, I have put in every single time and mentioned on the phone. All of
the other edits are great
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On Page 8:
"a chat server that had come to serve as the group's de facto center of operations"
- This is not right. There were still more than 10 IRC networks doing Anonymous operations and helping to run Anonymous websites in existance at that time. It was
one of the main ones, for some of the most public operations, but it wasnt in any way a center of operations. Many ops were still run on other networks. When looking at it in sheer numbers, the majority of ops actually happened on other servers (adding up
everything done on every other Anonymous IRC network versus AnonOps.)
On Page 12:
"But every time she tried to put it up".
- We addressed the "she" part in the first sentance, but not in that one. In the first sentance the "woman" was changed to "someone". Could this also get fixed in
this sentance?
On Page 27:
The big problem still exists, I have mentioned this edit now multiple times. The proposal cannot go out with this in it. I will paste in what I
put in the last round of edits:
"They never actually caught me, per se; instead I was turned in by a neighbor after he got himself arrested while in possession of several kilos
of coke and thus had plenty of reason to cooperate."
- As I stated before, not only in my last round of edits, but also on the phone. This CAN NOT appear in anything, even this proposal.
- Here is my note from the last round of edits: This cannot be said, it is under seal and is not actually something we can print without me getting
a lot of shit. It should say: "They never actually caught me, per se; instead I was turned in by someone looking for an immunity deal after they were busted earlier.
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Regards,
Barrett Brown
512-560-2302
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Regards,
Barrett Brown
512-560-2302