Dear Mr. Brown,

I’ve recently tweeted you about asking you a few questions about Anonymous for an upcoming article in Dutch IT magazine Computer Idee about Hackers and Hacktivism.

These are the questions:

-Can you tell a bit about how long you have been active, and what your greatest successes have been so far? (Both for your person and Anonymous as a group).

-What made you decide to become the public voice for a group of hacktivists?

-Some sources claim Anonymous is done for because of the wave of arrests of suspected members and/or internal discord. What are your thoughts on this?

-What is the biggest/best channel of free speech on the current Internet? I.e. the best way to anonymously get information out? Examples could be pastebin.com, Twitter or the TOR-network.

-How is Anti-sec progressing? Are you happy with the results so far?

-Some people oppose Anonymous, for instance by publishing information about “members” online. What is your attitude towards these individuals and their actions?

-I’ve read criticism from hacktivists that say “They (Anonymous, red.) definitely used kiddies that had no idea what they were getting into as a front, and that is wrong as well.”. What’s your response to this allegation?

-The structure of Anonymous makes it hard to establish hacks as “not the work of Anons” or the exact opposite. Does this concern you?

-Authorities worldwide claim to have arrested Anons. Can you comment on this?

I’m not in a big hurry to get the answers.

If you could reply somewhere within the next fortnight that would be great.

Thanks in advance for your time and trouble!

Best regards,

Menno Hagens.

Freelance technical journalist.