Re: A3P hack
Subject: Re: A3P hack
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 2/2/12, 19:01
To: Josh Peterson <josh@dailycaller.com>

I might publish them as proof-of-concept. You can have them if you like. It doesn't matter, the people in question are unlikely to see it and I have dozens more I could recruit very easily.

I don't know what the deal is with Facebook; an Anon took credit for it going down today, which it did for 15 minutes. Afterwards, there were reports of various scattered problems. This may stem from maintenance issues, as Facebook claimed that yesterday's downtime was caused by update. The timing, with the IPO offering, is what makes suspect that there may be one or more parties trying to ensure that the price goes down. There would be a number of reasons for this, ranging from ideology (Facebook was adopted early on by In-Q-Tel, as was Palantir, which explains why it has been conducive to data mining for intelligence community; for a bit more on this, see my last few tweets) to financial gains via market manipulation, to some other purpose that we'll never figure out. Or it could be just maintenance, which, again, would be poorly timed, and is unlikely since FB has kept its mouth shut today - unlike yesterday, when it acknowledged that yesterday's downtime was maintenance and denied any attack.

A blind cyber army is a group of online activists who believe themselves to be working for one cause when they are actually being used for another. This isn't my idea; intelligence agencies have done this IRL for years by their own acknowledgement. And in a wider sense, any army or force throughout history that believes itself to be fighting for, say, Protestantism when they are actually fulfilling the political agenda of a ruler who has no real beliefs would technically qualify. I'm talking about something a bit more specific, as per this example I've created. Although I have and continue to consider using such things as a means of information warfare, what I want most is to demonstrate how easily it can be done by a single person such as myself, thereby making plain that others with more resources could also do such things on a large scale. This is just one of the many seemingly bizarre practices that promise to make the internet a more chaotic place, for good or evil. It also endangers groups like Anonymous, which is one reason I advocate gradually splitting into small groups with leaders who are filmed 24/7 and otherwise monitored by participants. This is not a perfect deterrent, but it will help to stave off the inevitable meta-intrigue that's already being felt in this culture.

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Josh Peterson <josh@dailycaller.com> wrote:
Cool - Thanks Barrett. Will you be publishing the phone calls? 

I saw the news about Facebook going down - wasn't sure if to was actually Anonymous, or if people were scapegoating some Anons for a glitch in Facebook's end.

Also, what's a blind cyber army?


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
And earlier today, some Anons (I don't know who or how, exactly) took down Facebook. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebook-briefly-down-for-many-users/2012/02/02/gIQAZdfqkQ_story.html


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
The hack was done by someone working out of both Anonops and ProjectPM. He took down another couple of sites as well. I used contact info of subscribers to call some of them up, claim that I'm with a new secret white supremacist group called "The Order" and that I want to recruit them. All five fell for it. Recorded it. Planning on using this as an experiment for blind cyber armies. Meanwhile, the e-mails that were taken are available at a couple places.


On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Josh Peterson <josh@dailycaller.com> wrote:
Hey man,

Did you guys hack A3P? I was on their Facebook page and one of the comments pointed to your personal alleged involvement in the attack.

Is this true?


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