Re: the downfall of anonymous
Subject: Re: the downfall of anonymous
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>
Date: 4/21/12, 17:50
To: Evie Mercer <mercerevie@gmail.com>

Unfortunately, the same factors that allowed Anonymous to bring in people and work dynamically are also at play here. There's little quality control, and thus those who are here to contribute to reasonable causes find themselves having to deal with those who are here because they enjoy feeling a sense of collective power. It attracts the best and the worst, sort of like an army or a government. 

There's nothing I can do about this other than to promote the notion that the actual work might be better conducted via smaller cells that cooperate among one another in a loose association, and which run themselves however they see fit, sort of like how the U.S. state "laboratory system" was intended - tactics and methods of organization that prove viable can be widely adapted. This is why the campaign against the intelligence contractors is run out of Project PM's IRC, rather than Anonops, where it started.

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Evie Mercer <mercerevie@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Barrett,

Let me first say I admire and completely support what you are doing with Project PM and the like. I've been following your work since you first came to light and I really think you are one of the few people brave enough to risk shit in the name of exposing corruption, truth, whatever you want to call it.

Certain Ops are being sabotaged currently, lives are being put at risk in the name of egos and I thought I would reach out to you, to see if this is something you've noticed as well.

One of the most important aspects of our work, being making sure those in government-inflicted turmoil have access to secure servers, the ability to communicate anonymously, and even to access the internet by bypassing firewalls, is so important, and something I've been directly involved in, and it crushes me to see this be deliberately compromised because of personal vendettas, and worse.

People's very lives are being put at stake because of ignorant fuckheads putting their egos above ops.. of course all groups get corrupted but it really pisses me off of late.

I wish I had more to say, and I apologize for wasting your time as I know you have bigger fish to fry, but I thought why not, might as well see if you have any input.

I would also be keen to help, anyway I can. I used to pop in to your tinychats but I have noticed they don't occur as often.

I hope you are staying safe and doing o.k.

We are the same age, welcome to 30. lol. :)

<3
evie



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Barrett Brown
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