Subject: Chat with Adrian Chen
From: Adrian Chen <repletewithadrian@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

Adrian: hey
me: yo
Adrian: I just spoke to Commander X about his big claims to the montreal gazette about classified databases
Adrian: you know anything about Commander X?
me: I've worked with him on a couple of things off and on, mostly involving Bahrain and North Africa
Adrian: I assume you've read this? http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/12/insider-tells-why-anonymous-might-well-be-the-most-powerful-organization-on-earth/
me: yep
me: anyway, I don't communicate with him often
me: and I've got a more pessimistic view of things than he does
Adrian: yes, I noticed, I was just wondering what you made of his claim
me: which claim in particular?
Adrian: about the databases
Adrian: "Right now we have access to every classified database in the U.S. government. It’s a matter of when we leak the contents of those databases, not if. You know how we got access? We didn’t hack them. The access was given to us by the people who run the systems."
me: Did he confirm that quote to you?
Adrian: yeah
me: I suggest you go to irc.voxanon.net, #voxanon, which is one of his hangouts, people there will have a more informed opinion that I do
me: I really don't know much about what's going on in Anon these days other than that it's broken
Adrian: alright, thanks
Adrian: yeah I saw your ZDNet interview