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Anonymous
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Cyber attack
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A new kind of warfare
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Hackers and activists
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Security leaks
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Computer hackers
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Hackers
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Hacktivists.
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Anonymous has struck
again, with a warning,
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this is just the beginning.
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Anonymous is a collective
known for recent attacks
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on government and
corporate websites.
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The internet is a
powerful new medium
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where just a handful of
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just by shifting data around
in the right directions,
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can make big changes
and big damage.
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The more you said, the
more frightening it was.
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The Pentagon is now
singling out Anonymous
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as an example of the
serious new cyber-threats
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facing the country.
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The fundamental unit here
is information warfare.
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We're gaining back the freedoms
that the forefathers assured us
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through technology, and we
can't we can't allow these
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freedoms to be taken away.
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I will put my body on the altar of
liberty again and again and again.
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Information is the weapon.
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understood and properly used
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in an honest way is more
effective than anything else
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in the world.
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If you've got your eye on
Boeing, yeah, please go for it.
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I'd like to see those
fuckers go down.
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Dial the code, modify
the code just a bid.
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Bombard the Pentagon.
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You're either with us,
or you're against us.
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You have 15 minutes
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available for this call.
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Hello?
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Uh.
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Andrew, are you there?
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It's not scary to
be going to prison?

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No, I never was scared
to be going to prison.
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There's all these
cool people, and I'm
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learning all these cool things.
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And I'm making lifelong future
friends and future business
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partners, certainly.
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Embarrassing people, I enjoy it.
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It's viscerally fun.
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He's an instigator.
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The most lovable little pest
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on the internet.
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His ability
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to make other people so angry
is the talent that he has.
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Almost 90% of the articles
that come out for Weev, they
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a dick, he's an asshole.
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Little Weev is going to troll
the fuck out of Apple and AT&T.
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How do I plan on keeping my
corn bread safe in prison?
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I will stab a
nigger that dares
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reach across my plate.
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I am the Bruce Lee of regexp.
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I didn't get caught.
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I put my name on what I did.
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I'm not here to play
nice with AT&T. I'm here
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to comment and criticize.
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There was a URL on
an AT&T web server
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with a number at the end.
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And if you add one
to this number,
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like you could have typed it

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and over again, you would see the
next iPad 3G user's email address.
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Here's AT&T handing
out a complete target
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list of their customers.
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I was morally required to come
forward and sort of put them
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over the coals for this.
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It was, like, 114,000
email addresses.
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And it's quite a list.
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"New York Times"
CEO Janet Robinson.
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White House Chief
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of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
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Diane Sawyer.
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Not to mention
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the US Army and Congress.
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And it doesn't get
much more high profile
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than Mayor Michael
Bloomberg of New York City.
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Mayor Bloomberg was like,
this isn't a big deal.
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It's not like people can't
find my email address.
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I'm aggregating
public data and using
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it to criticize people
whose politics I dislike.
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The FBI is combing
through people's emails,
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grossly violating their
constitutional rights.
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I think I have moral
superiority here.
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NSA and FBI are
both walking here.
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And they're looking
at the computers.
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And they're like, oh
my god, these red dots,
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they're converging.
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They hit a button, renh, renh.
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No black SUV.
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There's been black SUVs outside
the past couple of days.
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All the red dots are in
the same room right now.
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There's going to
be even more later.
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Magic fucking genie.
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You're actually in power.
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You're in charge.
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The most drastic improvements
that need to be made
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are in the education system.
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We need to give people the kind
of classical Western education
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that they used to have.
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We need a curriculum
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you know, like, Keats and Byron.
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It doesn't sound
revolutionary.
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It's absolutely revolutionary.
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We have people in power
that have explicitly
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engineered our education
system to make people dumb,
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obedient, and uncreative.
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Getting them out of fucking
power and remaking it
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so people can be free-thinking,
well-educated, sensible,
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non-reactionary people, this
is a revolutionary thing.
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And it's probably
going to require
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a whole lot of bloodshed.
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Why has the FBI targeted you?
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They have,
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been surveilling me
since I was 15 years old.
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That was in the
search warrant they
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used to kick in my door in 2010.
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And why?
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They wanted me to it inform
on hackers on the internet.
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They've tried to get me
to do that many times.
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There is a congruence between
whistleblowing and hacktivism
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and hacktivists.
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The similarity is speaking
truth to and of power,
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revealing the power structure
whether it's corporate,
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whether it's
government, or both.
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I was a senior executive at
the National Security Agency.
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about six and a half years.
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I blew the whistle on the
secret surveillance programs
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called Stellar Wind, which were
the foundational surveillance
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programs that ultimately
Edward Snowden, 12 years later,
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is now disclosing through
reporters and journalists.
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The government went
ahead and prosecuted me
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under the Espionage Act.
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It was a 10 felony
count indictment.
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I faced 35 years in prison.
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Hackers are
important in the sense
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that they have the
capacity to expose
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the secret or the inner
workings of the state, which
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is why they are
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and they are going after them
with phenomenal vengeance.
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We are looking at
increased transparency.
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Unprecedented transparency.
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He called the former
head of the NSA
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at home on a weekly basis
for a couple of months,
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trying to get him
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Barrett was speaking
in that language
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of real adversarial journalism,
that the purpose of journalism
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is not to please those in power
but to report the truth, even
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when it makes those in power
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29 years old,
a cocky college dropout,
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a self-described
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proclaims he is
policing wrongdoing.
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He was brash, he was
cocky, he was arrogant.
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He was fucking full of himself.
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He's awfully narcissistic.
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He held court, so to speak,
from his bathtub.
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Fucking around on Tinychat.
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The take of NBC
brass was Barrett
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was not a very
appealing character.
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He was not somebody that...
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they wanted to tout
as in any way
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heroic or doing an
admirable thing.
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Barrett was
somebody who was very
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open about his own struggles
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He was on a maintenance
drug, like a methadone.
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He was on Suboxone.
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At least he was trying
to stay off hard drugs,
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to be on at least a medicine.
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Who are the members
of Anonymous?
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Who are they?
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They're everyone.
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I mean, you'd be amazed.
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There's obviously
a lot of people
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who are hackers who
just working in IT.
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They work for major
corporations in some cases.
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There's journalists,
writers of all kinds, people
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What is Anonymous?
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It's basically the power
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of an absolutely massive group
of people coming together.
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Anonymous are your
brothers and sisters,
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your sons and daughters, your
parents and your friends.
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Anonymous is you.
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Anonymous cannot and
will not stand idly while
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people are being denied
their basic rights and human
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liberties.
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Understand that something
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is horribly wrong
with this world.
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The Tunisian government
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has made itself an
enemy of Anonymous.
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The Egyptian government has
revealed itself to be criminal.
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For the good of mankind
and for our own enjoyment.
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To end the corruption,
we must expose it.
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If you
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are working for a corrupt
company, leak the data.
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If you are working for a corrupt
government, leak the documents.
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Think for yourself.
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Question authority.
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Join us in this battle
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for freedom of
information worldwide.
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Remember, we are you.
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Anonymous is you.
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And you are Anonymous.
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You are fighting for

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and for the next
step in evolution.
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It's a very interesting
relationship
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Barrett has with Anonymous.
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Barrett's Anonymous.
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He's their spokesperson.
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Barrett's not Anonymous.
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He's not their spokesperson.
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Is Barrett really Anonymous?
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Because he doesn't hack,
and he doesn't really
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have computer skills.
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Well, does he have
a Guy Fawkes mask?
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He was fulfilling a very
valuable and important
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function, which was
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the legitimacy it needed.
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He was the person who was
willing to go on record.
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It's an open brand.
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Like, anyone can sort of label
what they're doing Anonymous.
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If you're doing something
that people don't approve,
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then Anonymous will
turn in on itself
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and sort of eliminate that.
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Like, whatever it is
that doesn't fit in
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with the truth-seeking,
justice-seeking ideology.
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Are you not worried that
even an informal involvement
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with Anonymous is going to
end up with you targeted,
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with you potentially
going to jail for this?
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He was interacting

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A couple times, he wanted to
make the point that he was not
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a hacker, that he
was of the community.
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Anonymous members try to hack
into people's personal accounts
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and attempt to expose
personal information.
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And if we did, we wouldn't
go around bragging about it
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beforehand.
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We would wait
until we were done.
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This article is also poorly
written, and I object to that.
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He wasn't able to just
try to do anything cleanly
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without people giving
him a hard time about it.
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My actual title is
Cobra Commander.
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Hiss, hiss.

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Hiss.
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So that's how I need to be
acknowledged, I think, further.
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I also go by faggot now.
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These use that
non-pejorative fag.
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He's an ego-fag and a moral-fag
and a leader-fag and just about
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everything but a
fag-fag, as you know,
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leave it to the internet to
have to repeat themselves.
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What happened today
is certainly illegal.
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Why are you willing
to show your face?
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Barrett being a named
person was his own doing.
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He did not show up as Anonymous.
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He showed up as Barrett Brown.
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There's a new world
being born here.

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At least, that's the
perspective of the people in it.
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And I think Barrett really
reflected that and gave voice
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to this emerging world view.
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Whether it's valid or
not is another question.
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And we do not
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Forget.
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Sabu spoke about
things in terms of this
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being a movement for
revolution, and everybody
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was his comrade or his brother.
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He had kind of built himself
up within Anonymous
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and had this
reputation of a like,
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doesn't give a fuck
freedom fighter.
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There's de facto leadership,

de facto organizer.
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Someone had to have the idea
and start bringing people in.
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So for a little while, they're
going to listen to this guy.
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They're going to say,
what are we doing here?
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Why are we doing it?
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There are two types of hackers.
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There's a ghost hacker,
who constantly changes
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his identity, so
nobody knows who he is
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or even how to really
get ahold of him.
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And then there are people with
permanent fixed identities.
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Sabu had a permanent identity.
284
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He made it pretty clear what his
philosophy, his politics were.
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I find him to be
incredibly annoying.
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He uses words like
what's up, niggy.
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And like, he's a
very, like to me,
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I'm very annoyed by
everything he says.
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Like I don't like his
terms and the way he talks.
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He was the king of
the hacking world,
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doing it like a "sir," in fact.
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Friends around the globe,
we are LOL at security.
293
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LulzSec came from
Anonymous, and they
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enjoyed what each other did.
295
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Laughing out loud at
security LulzSec.
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Greetings from Anonymous.
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For the past decade,
the government
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has tried to take
control of our internet.

299
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The Lulz boat was just
sailing the infinite seas
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of hacking excellence, hacking
the shit out of everybody.
301
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Topiary,
is everything all right?
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Are you dead?
303
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Are you OK?
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Remember you tweeted my
fucking phone number, said,
305
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-512-560-26 Here's the
leader of the LulzSec.
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Call him now.
307
00:18:35,748 --> 00:18:37,181
You threw it on the
fucking LulzSec Twitter?
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Barrett Brown is the
leader of Lulzec!
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Give him a call now!
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I got 200 calls
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Hurry up.

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Get the sign.
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Do you have it?
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Oh, my god.
315
00:19:00,106 --> 00:19:01,472
Oh my god.
316
00:19:01,474 --> 00:19:03,441
You did it.
317
00:19:03,443 --> 00:19:04,842
Oh my god.
318
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Oh my you did it, man.
319
00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:08,512
No, I'm watching it.
320
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I'm standing here watching it.
321
00:19:10,283 --> 00:19:11,816
You did it. It's
working. It's totally working.
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00:19:13,019 --> 00:19:14,518
If I was working
in a cubicle, I'd
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be like, oh, what are those
Lulzsec guys doing today?
324
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You know those
"God hates fags"
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00:19:18,758 --> 00:19:21,625
morons that protests
soldiers funerals and stomp

326
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on American flags
because they've
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00:19:22,929 --> 00:19:24,628
got a problem with gay people.
328
00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:25,963
God hates fags.
329
00:19:25,965 --> 00:19:27,865
What part of that don't
you understand, girl?
330
00:19:27,867 --> 00:19:30,134
I don't fucking understand
why God hates fags.
331
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Because he can.
332
00:19:31,204 --> 00:19:33,860
We can sometimes take over the
websites themselves, put messages up,
333
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as we did today with Westboro.
334
00:19:38,572 --> 00:19:40,244
If you check downloads.westborobaptistchurch
right now,
335
00:19:40,246 --> 00:19:42,146
you'll see a nice
message from Anonymous.
336
00:19:42,148 --> 00:19:44,849
The hacks got bigger
and bigger and bigger.
337
00:19:44,851 --> 00:19:50,703
Pull up the screen, and they're like,
Tango Down, cia.gov for the Lulz.
338
00:19:57,163 --> 00:19:59,029
I'm like, oh shit.

339
00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:03,267
What a hacktivist can do and
does all the time is embarrass
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00:20:03,269 --> 00:20:06,403
the power elite in a way that
boots on the ground can't.
341
00:20:09,876 --> 00:20:12,610
So you can go and sit in
the front of a building,
342
00:20:12,612 --> 00:20:15,579
you can circle the Pentagon.
343
00:20:15,581 --> 00:20:18,048
That doesn't really
embarrass anyone.
344
00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:21,519
If you hack the
website of the CIA,
345
00:20:21,521 --> 00:20:25,022
you've embarrassed the power
structure of the nation state.
346
00:20:25,024 --> 00:20:26,991
You've embarrassed the Pentagon.
347
00:20:26,993 --> 00:20:29,527
You've embarrassed the
United States of America.
348
00:20:29,529 --> 00:20:34,832
You've embarrassed
it by puncturing
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00:20:34,834 --> 00:20:37,268
the illusion of their power.
350
00:20:37,270 --> 00:20:39,303
You made us look bad.
351
00:20:39,305 --> 00:20:40,838
You taunted us.

352
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We don't take to kindly to that.
353
00:20:42,308 --> 00:20:43,641
You embarrassed me.
354
00:20:43,643 --> 00:20:48,512
So when someone comes
along like a hacker
355
00:20:48,514 --> 00:20:53,939
and exposes the dark
underbelly of this beast,
356
00:20:55,011 --> 00:20:56,816
that beast...
357
00:20:56,851 --> 00:20:58,789
it's not just
tickling the beast.
358
00:20:58,791 --> 00:21:01,125
They're going to take
some swipes at you.
359
00:21:01,127 --> 00:21:03,494
One of the most
notorious hacking
360
00:21:03,496 --> 00:21:05,763
groups of all time has
had its head chopped off.
361
00:21:05,765 --> 00:21:07,264
Return
362
00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:08,632
to the government crackdown
on a loose, large network
363
00:21:08,634 --> 00:21:10,401
of politically-inspired
hacktivists.
364
00:21:10,403 --> 00:21:12,169
A 19-year-old

365
00:21:12,171 --> 00:21:14,171
who goes by the nickname
Topiari was arrested
366
00:21:14,173 --> 00:21:16,173
in Scotland's Shetland Islands.
367
00:21:20,413 --> 00:21:25,716
The FBI will pull in
some 17, 20-year-old kid
368
00:21:25,718 --> 00:21:29,053
and threaten them with
100 years in prison,
369
00:21:29,055 --> 00:21:31,689
just to get them to
inform on people.
370
00:21:31,691 --> 00:21:35,759
There were at least
three snitches
371
00:21:35,761 --> 00:21:39,964
involved in the
takedown of LolzSec.
372
00:21:39,966 --> 00:21:42,166
This was a domino effect.
373
00:21:42,168 --> 00:21:48,138
People were taken into custody
that folded on their comrades.
374
00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:18,202
On September 17, 2011,
Sabu comes back on Twitter
375
00:22:18,204 --> 00:22:20,170
from his, like,
month-long absence.
376
00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:22,306
And he's like,
rise up, my fellas.
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The next thing I know, it's
like, 18 chat rooms are linked
378
00:22:25,711 --> 00:22:29,913
together, and everybody's
working in this Occupy Wall
379
00:22:29,915 --> 00:22:30,781
Street chan.
380
00:22:30,783 --> 00:22:31,815
And like, holy shit.
381
00:22:31,817 --> 00:22:33,083
All right, so let's get to work.
382
00:22:47,733 --> 00:22:49,566
I grew up in a normal family.
383
00:22:49,568 --> 00:22:50,601
I'm from Arkansas.
384
00:22:50,603 --> 00:22:51,969
I'm a high school dropout.
385
00:22:51,971 --> 00:22:54,571
There's nothing particularly
special about me.
386
00:22:54,573 --> 00:22:58,676
And there's nothing particularly
special about any of us.
387
00:22:58,678 --> 00:23:00,577
But together we can
form a movement.
388
00:23:00,579 --> 00:23:01,378
I am the 99%.
389
00:23:20,733 --> 00:23:22,132
Get off the street.
390
00:23:22,134 --> 00:23:23,701
Get onto the sidewalk.

391
00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:37,147
The cops tricked us into
going down a one-way street.
392
00:23:37,149 --> 00:23:39,850
And then they kettled us because
we were on a one-way street.
393
00:23:39,852 --> 00:23:42,019
They were really mean
and kinda violent.
394
00:23:42,021 --> 00:23:42,953
Were you wearing your
Anonymous mask
395
00:23:42,955 --> 00:23:43,754
when you got arrested?
396
00:23:43,756 --> 00:23:44,488
I was.
397
00:23:44,490 --> 00:23:45,622
I was too.
398
00:23:45,624 --> 00:23:47,958
I don't want to hide my
face, but sometimes I
399
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,360
feel like I have to.
400
00:23:50,362 --> 00:23:51,895
People are dismissing
401
00:23:51,897 --> 00:23:53,063
you guys as anarchists.
402
00:23:58,604 --> 00:24:00,037
Anarchy.
403
00:24:00,039 --> 00:24:01,905
Thousands of occupy protesters
flooded the streets.
404
00:24:01,907 --> 00:24:03,574

The sinister mask,

405
00:24:03,576 --> 00:24:05,509
fashion on Guy Fawkes,
the revolutionary who
406
00:24:05,511 --> 00:24:08,045
attempted to blow up the British
parliament buildings more
407
00:24:08,047 --> 00:24:11,548
than 400 years ago, has
become a worldwide symbol
408
00:24:11,550 --> 00:24:12,916
of anarchy and revolution.
409
00:24:12,918 --> 00:24:14,384
They are terrorists.
410
00:24:14,386 --> 00:24:16,754
The other side, the rich
motherfuckers portraying us
411
00:24:16,756 --> 00:24:19,423
all as destructive, mindless
anarchists and so forth,
412
00:24:19,425 --> 00:24:21,358
have really exposed
how reactionary
413
00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:25,262
and how inherently violent
the police state really is.
414
00:24:33,038 --> 00:24:36,039
I am a journalist!
415
00:24:36,041 --> 00:24:37,541
I am also a protester.
416
00:24:37,543 --> 00:24:39,743
This guy was just arrested,
417
00:24:39,745 --> 00:24:40,978
didn't do anything illegal.

418
00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:43,247
This guy was just
standing around too.
419
00:25:11,410 --> 00:25:14,611
We can't see the
story from over here.
420
00:25:14,613 --> 00:25:16,079
Remember the press?
421
00:25:16,081 --> 00:25:18,382
How are we supposed to do
our job if you kick us out
422
00:25:18,384 --> 00:25:19,616
of the park?
423
00:25:33,432 --> 00:25:35,999
The Jews fooled the Germans,
because they got to Germany,
424
00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:38,535
and they were very
serious, rigid people.
425
00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:41,405
And the Germans were like,
oh, they're just like us.
426
00:25:41,407 --> 00:25:44,408
And so they got this
great success in Germany.
427
00:25:44,410 --> 00:25:46,410
And then the
Germans figured out,
428
00:25:46,412 --> 00:25:48,245
oh, they took over
our banks, and it's
429
00:25:48,247 --> 00:25:50,480
hyper-inflated our currency.
430
00:25:50,482 --> 00:25:51,882

Fuck these people.

431
00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:55,018
And perhaps the punishment was
disproportionate to the crime.
432
00:25:55,020 --> 00:25:56,453
Maybe.
433
00:25:56,455 --> 00:25:58,255
But the Jews were the
criminal people in Germany,
434
00:25:58,257 --> 00:26:02,025
and they did have
something coming to them.
435
00:26:02,027 --> 00:26:03,060
Just a little.
436
00:26:03,062 --> 00:26:04,061
Oh my god.
437
00:26:04,063 --> 00:26:05,395
Perhaps not the Holocaust.
438
00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:07,931
I certainly don't blame
you for walking away.
439
00:26:07,933 --> 00:26:10,067
It's a good thing
you're a troll.
440
00:26:10,069 --> 00:26:12,436
You can always pull
that kind of troll card.
441
00:26:15,441 --> 00:26:19,743
He's obviously a
troll and by all
442
00:26:19,745 --> 00:26:25,349
accounts an asshole and highly
offensive and of dubious
443
00:26:25,351 --> 00:26:28,719

moral fiber and

dubious moral standing.
444
00:26:28,721 --> 00:26:29,920
He is an internet troll.
445
00:26:29,922 --> 00:26:32,489
And for the uninitiated,
that's someone
446
00:26:32,491 --> 00:26:35,425
who just likes to
mess with people
447
00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:37,828
for the sake of
messing with people.
448
00:26:37,830 --> 00:26:41,398
Trolling is a rhetorical style
that exposes somebody else's
449
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,501
personality flaws by eliciting
a reaction from them that
450
00:26:44,503 --> 00:26:46,837
shows the true nature
of their character.
451
00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:49,539
He pinpoints your
vulnerability,
452
00:26:49,541 --> 00:26:51,975
and he immediately
starts to exploit it.
453
00:26:51,977 --> 00:26:55,345
But for higher cause, to show
that you're hypocritical,
454
00:26:55,347 --> 00:26:58,749
to show that you have misogyny,
to show that you yourself
455
00:26:58,751 --> 00:27:01,551
are racist while you're yelling

at him for being racist.

456
00:27:01,553 --> 00:27:03,553
Trolling is in the
Socratic tradition
457
00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:07,057
of questioning everything and
driving people nuts until they
458
00:27:07,059 --> 00:27:09,326
question their assumptions.
459
00:27:09,328 --> 00:27:12,863
And that's basically what a
good troll will aspire to do.
460
00:27:12,865 --> 00:27:16,366
If I were to name parties
that I think were great trolls,
461
00:27:16,368 --> 00:27:19,503
I'd say Giordano
Bruno, Zeno of Elea,
462
00:27:19,505 --> 00:27:23,040
Jesus Christ, Joseph
Smith, Brigham Young,
463
00:27:23,042 --> 00:27:25,008
I'd definitely name
some parties who
464
00:27:25,010 --> 00:27:27,711
used a very combative
style of rhetoric
465
00:27:27,713 --> 00:27:30,080
but probably nobody alive.
466
00:27:30,082 --> 00:27:31,481
You meet Weev in
person, and he's
467
00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:32,616
the nicest guy in the world.
468

00:27:32,618 --> 00:27:34,117

He'll hold the
door open for you.
469
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,552
He'll grab you a
soda if you ask him.
470
00:27:35,554 --> 00:27:37,054
And if you meet
him online, he'll
471
00:27:37,056 --> 00:27:38,989
spew a whole bunch
of anti-Semitic crap
472
00:27:38,991 --> 00:27:40,424
and he'll be really mean.
473
00:27:40,426 --> 00:27:43,360
I like to think of trolling
as a way of expressing
474
00:27:43,362 --> 00:27:44,895
working-class discontent.
475
00:27:44,897 --> 00:27:48,999
I recall recently that Gina
Rinehart called the working
476
00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:53,470
class people of Australia
lazy and without self-control.
477
00:27:53,472 --> 00:27:55,839
Trolling is the
right of said people
478
00:27:55,841 --> 00:28:00,243
to respond by telling her to
perhaps stop eating and get
479
00:28:00,245 --> 00:28:01,645
on a treadmill.
480
00:28:01,647 --> 00:28:04,081
You say that trolling is
about creating something

481
00:28:04,083 --> 00:28:07,751
that expresses the true
nature of the character.
482
00:28:07,753 --> 00:28:11,521
I wonder how what you
said about Gina Rinehart
483
00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:13,657
exposes the true nature
of the character,
484
00:28:13,659 --> 00:28:15,692
if you're just talking
about her weight.
485
00:28:15,694 --> 00:28:18,662
When she has inherited wealth
from her father, a bunch
486
00:28:18,664 --> 00:28:21,865
of mines, and she runs around
calling the people that
487
00:28:21,867 --> 00:28:26,636
pull the minerals out of the
ground for her lazy and stupid,
488
00:28:26,638 --> 00:28:28,005
it's disgusting.
489
00:28:28,007 --> 00:28:30,340
It's a level of
decadence and gluttony
490
00:28:30,342 --> 00:28:33,110
that I think speaks not
only through her weight
491
00:28:33,112 --> 00:28:34,411
but her general demeanor.
492
00:28:34,413 --> 00:28:38,448
She's a loud-mouth,
obnoxious idiot.
493

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I'm not a bigot, except by the
original definition of bigot,
494
00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:44,421
I air my opinion very
loudly without the concern
495
00:28:44,423 --> 00:28:46,356
for others' fucking
cries of help about,
496
00:28:46,358 --> 00:28:48,825
oh, he's saying something
that we don't like to hear.
497
00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:52,262
That's actually the initial
definition of bigot,
498
00:28:52,264 --> 00:28:54,531
before it was associated
with a racist somebody who
499
00:28:54,533 --> 00:28:56,133
loudly airs their opinion.
500
00:28:56,135 --> 00:28:59,202
And it says something
stark now that bigot
501
00:28:59,204 --> 00:29:01,071
is a pejorative term.
502
00:29:01,073 --> 00:29:03,440
There's a quote from Voltaire.
503
00:29:03,442 --> 00:29:05,675
It says, to find
out who rules you,
504
00:29:05,677 --> 00:29:08,278
find the people you
may not criticize.
505
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,280
Why do we all have to
agree with each other?

506
00:29:10,282 --> 00:29:12,616
That's what freedom is about.
507
00:29:12,618 --> 00:29:14,751
I can call you a
disgusting kike,
508
00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:18,155
and we can still live in
the fucking same society.
509
00:29:18,157 --> 00:29:21,024
He actually is trying to shove
this down everyone's throat.
510
00:29:21,026 --> 00:29:25,228
Freedom of speech at all costs,
as hardcore as I can make it.
511
00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:27,130
He's a crazy fucker.
512
00:29:27,132 --> 00:29:30,656
But, you know he's,
he's a...
513
00:29:31,938 --> 00:29:34,724
our crazy fucker, I think.
514
00:29:34,759 --> 00:29:36,139
What was it,
the Gay Nigger Society?
515
00:29:36,141 --> 00:29:37,274
Oh, crap.
516
00:29:37,276 --> 00:29:38,708
I can't say that
on camera, can I?
517
00:29:38,710 --> 00:29:40,877
I should probably, probably
not put that on camera.
518
00:29:40,879 --> 00:29:44,948
The Gay Nigger Association

has been around,

519
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:47,651
I think, probably since 2000.
520
00:29:47,653 --> 00:29:50,253
It is a very old
troll organization.
521
00:29:50,255 --> 00:29:53,323
I was elected president
of it in 2010.
522
00:30:21,787 --> 00:30:23,386
The name
523
00:30:23,388 --> 00:30:25,989
is based on a Danish
short film called
524
00:30:25,991 --> 00:30:29,559
"Gayniggers from Outer Space. "
525
00:30:29,561 --> 00:30:31,328
The gay niggers
526
00:30:31,330 --> 00:30:34,698
come from the planet
Anus, and they are much,
527
00:30:34,700 --> 00:30:38,802
much more intelligent than any
other creature in the universe.
528
00:30:38,804 --> 00:30:41,571
When Hurricane Sandy
swept through New York,
529
00:30:41,573 --> 00:30:43,406
they posed a bunch of
pictures on Twitter
530
00:30:43,408 --> 00:30:45,509
of black people, like,
looting and stuff.
531
00:30:45,511 --> 00:30:48,445

And #SANDYLOOTCREW is what

they called it, the hashtag.
532
00:31:04,429 --> 00:31:06,796
Tons of media
outlets picked it up.
533
00:31:06,798 --> 00:31:10,367
If people were tweeting
pictures of white people
534
00:31:10,369 --> 00:31:12,736
in suits doing TVs, the
media would actually
535
00:31:12,738 --> 00:31:14,538
investigate it and
be like, all right,
536
00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:18,341
this is bullshit, instead of
just reporting that nonsense
537
00:31:18,343 --> 00:31:19,543
without any forethought.
538
00:31:23,348 --> 00:31:25,415
Trolls in trouble
computer hackers
539
00:31:25,417 --> 00:31:27,317
find themselves on the
wrong side of the law
540
00:31:27,319 --> 00:31:29,452
after breaching AT&T's security.
541
00:31:29,454 --> 00:31:31,888
I mean, I guess there's a
blurry line between Goatse
542
00:31:31,890 --> 00:31:34,124
Security, was it a
troll or was it a hack?
543
00:31:34,126 --> 00:31:35,692
But I mean, the
name Goatse Security

544
00:31:35,694 --> 00:31:38,795
invokes that terrible image
of, that ruined my childhood.
545
00:31:38,797 --> 00:31:41,531
He named his company
Goatse Security.
546
00:31:41,533 --> 00:31:45,068
So if you know what
Goatse is G-O-A-T-S-E
547
00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:46,703
I'm not going to explain it.
548
00:31:46,705 --> 00:31:49,573
Hey, there's this gaping
security flaw here.
549
00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:08,992
Goatse Security,
who are these guys?
550
00:32:08,994 --> 00:32:10,727
And they're Googling
Goatse, and they're
551
00:32:10,729 --> 00:32:12,128
getting the goatse picture.
552
00:32:12,130 --> 00:32:13,630
They're called Goatse Security?
553
00:32:13,632 --> 00:32:15,098
Am I pronouncing that correctly?
554
00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:16,433
Yeah, that's right.
555
00:32:16,435 --> 00:32:18,068
We're analyzing coverage
from Bloomberg, Goatse,
556
00:32:18,070 --> 00:32:19,769
The Register, and Forbes.

557
00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:24,174
Goatse Security would expose
the gaping security holes
558
00:32:24,176 --> 00:32:25,508
in your systems.
559
00:32:25,510 --> 00:32:29,512
A corporation like AT&T
and Apple, the only way
560
00:32:29,514 --> 00:32:32,749
you could really get
to them was literally
561
00:32:32,751 --> 00:32:36,000
to send it to the
media and make a,
562
00:32:36,218 --> 00:32:39,850
a gaping asshole
mockery of it.
563
00:32:40,058 --> 00:32:43,493
We're here today to announce
that our office has filed
564
00:32:43,495 --> 00:32:46,263
criminal charges against
Andrew Auernheimer.
565
00:32:57,109 --> 00:32:59,175
I never understood.
566
00:32:59,177 --> 00:33:01,878
The picture that the press
has painted of me is unfair,
567
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,314
and I'd love to have a
discussion, a fair discussion.
568
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:05,649
Truth triumphs in the end.
569
00:33:05,651 --> 00:33:07,450
Would you say you've

done anything wrong?

570
00:33:07,452 --> 00:33:09,686
I don't believe I've
done anything wrong, no.
571
00:33:09,688 --> 00:33:14,824
What happens when a hacktivist
comes some kid like Weev
572
00:33:14,826 --> 00:33:19,529
comes along and punctures the
invincibility of the United
573
00:33:19,531 --> 00:33:21,698
States government or AT&T?
574
00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:26,836
You minimize the power of these
institutions by doing that.
575
00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:28,938
That's why these kids
have to be stopped.
576
00:33:37,115 --> 00:33:39,482
Too late.
577
00:33:39,484 --> 00:33:42,819
My time has come.
578
00:33:43,504 --> 00:33:49,292
Sends shivers down my spine,
bodies aching all the time.
579
00:33:50,387 --> 00:33:53,168
Goodbye, everybody.
580
00:33:53,538 --> 00:33:56,355
I've got to go,
581
00:33:56,860 --> 00:34:02,692
gotta leave you all
behind and face the truth.
582
00:34:03,775 --> 00:34:05,775
Mama

583
00:34:37,342 --> 00:34:39,008
Come on, everybody.
584
00:34:39,010 --> 00:34:39,976
Everybody, we're going.
585
00:34:44,549 --> 00:34:48,258
Can you can you
whistle the "Ode to Joy?"
586
00:35:27,793 --> 00:35:29,192
It's been good knowing you.
587
00:35:29,194 --> 00:35:31,961
I hope to see you all again.
588
00:35:31,963 --> 00:35:37,267
If not, write me shit
and keep causing trouble.
589
00:35:37,269 --> 00:35:40,670
Cause as much trouble
as you can in my stead.
590
00:35:40,672 --> 00:35:43,296
That was classic.
Of course.
591
00:35:46,578 --> 00:35:48,178
You're not coming in?
592
00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:49,579
No, I'm coming in.
593
00:35:49,581 --> 00:35:51,681
I just don't know how fast
they're gonna take you.
594
00:35:51,683 --> 00:35:53,550
In my country,
there's a problem.
595
00:35:53,552 --> 00:35:55,385
And that problem is the feds.
596

00:35:55,387 --> 00:35:59,122

They take everybody's freedom,
and they never give it back.
597
00:35:59,124 --> 00:36:01,724
I'm going to prison
for arithmetic.
598
00:36:01,726 --> 00:36:06,529
I added one to a fucking
number on a public web server,
599
00:36:06,531 --> 00:36:08,631
and I aggregated this
data, and I gave it
600
00:36:08,633 --> 00:36:12,402
to a fucking journalist
at that man's publication.
601
00:36:12,404 --> 00:36:16,639
And this is why I am going
to prison, is arithmetic.
602
00:36:16,641 --> 00:36:17,907
Fuck this country.
603
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:27,750
America's priorities
604
00:36:27,752 --> 00:36:29,252
are our priorities.
605
00:36:29,254 --> 00:36:30,954
We are developing solutions
606
00:36:30,956 --> 00:36:33,990
that prevent cyber-threats
from becoming cyber-attacks.
607
00:36:33,992 --> 00:36:36,392
Because at Northrup Grumman,
608
00:36:36,394 --> 00:36:38,394
values are what
enable us to perform
609

00:36:38,396 --> 00:36:40,630

at the very highest levels.
610
00:36:40,632 --> 00:36:42,866
Because we know that
what we do affects
611
00:36:42,868 --> 00:36:46,569
the security of our nation and
other nations around the globe.
612
00:36:46,571 --> 00:36:48,305
- Northrup Grumman.
- CACI.
613
00:36:48,331 --> 00:36:50,105
- Lockheed Martin.
- Booz Allen Hamilton.
614
00:36:50,230 --> 00:36:51,789
- Abraxas.
- Palantir.
615
00:36:51,965 --> 00:36:54,685
Stratfor,
leader in global intelligence.
616
00:37:10,929 --> 00:37:12,996
Even people who are paying
close attention to it,
617
00:37:12,998 --> 00:37:16,633
like me, had never really
focused on those players
618
00:37:16,635 --> 00:37:18,101
before until Barrett
started doing
619
00:37:18,103 --> 00:37:19,702
the journalism
that he was doing.
620
00:37:19,704 --> 00:37:21,104
There's always
been contractors.
621
00:37:21,106 --> 00:37:23,506

We had contractors during

the American Revolution.
622
00:37:23,508 --> 00:37:25,475
Let's be real in
terms of history.
623
00:37:25,477 --> 00:37:27,877
We've never had
what were defined
624
00:37:27,879 --> 00:37:29,546
as inherently
governmental functions,
625
00:37:29,548 --> 00:37:34,117
including the centerpiece
functions of the intelligence
626
00:37:34,119 --> 00:37:37,620
system, the most secret
being turned over
627
00:37:37,622 --> 00:37:40,290
for profit to corporations.
628
00:37:40,292 --> 00:37:44,827
If you have that kind of
control because of the accesses
629
00:37:44,829 --> 00:37:48,131
you're granted and the
government giving you
630
00:37:48,133 --> 00:37:54,003
the deep state intelligence,
the deep state data, guess what.
631
00:37:54,005 --> 00:37:57,040
You get to serve the state.
632
00:37:57,042 --> 00:38:00,243
You get to justify its
continued existence.
633
00:38:00,245 --> 00:38:03,126
You're going to
color the world...

634
00:38:04,728 --> 00:38:07,536
with the mentality
of the state
635
00:38:07,625 --> 00:38:10,753
which is, the world's
a dangerous place.
636
00:38:10,755 --> 00:38:12,789
There's lots of
threats out there.
637
00:38:12,791 --> 00:38:15,224
It's a target-rich environment.
638
00:38:15,226 --> 00:38:18,261
These are people that are
in this to enrich themselves.
639
00:38:18,263 --> 00:38:19,862
They're the people
in the government,
640
00:38:19,864 --> 00:38:21,731
and they're the people
in this business.
641
00:38:21,733 --> 00:38:25,602
And they don't care that
it's not helping anyone.
642
00:38:25,604 --> 00:38:27,103
These are not patriots.
643
00:38:27,105 --> 00:38:29,739
These are people that maybe
have military background.
644
00:38:29,741 --> 00:38:32,041
They might think of
themselves as patriots,
645
00:38:32,043 --> 00:38:34,043
but they are not patriots.
646
00:38:34,045 --> 00:38:36,045

We can meet and surpass

647
00:38:36,047 --> 00:38:40,583
shareholders' expectations,
branch into adjacent markets,
648
00:38:40,585 --> 00:38:44,687
and pursue billions of dollars
in unconstrained growth
649
00:38:44,689 --> 00:38:46,923
opportunities.
650
00:38:46,925 --> 00:38:49,459
They're invested in
the security theater.
651
00:38:49,461 --> 00:38:52,228
Hundreds and hundreds
of billions of dollars
652
00:38:52,230 --> 00:38:56,165
have been spent on
national security,
653
00:38:56,167 --> 00:38:57,867
ostensibly to practice
I can actually
654
00:38:57,869 --> 00:38:59,469
say it's actually
in the trillions,
655
00:38:59,471 --> 00:39:01,304
the total amount of money.
656
00:39:01,306 --> 00:39:03,840
I would argue it's the largest
redistribution of wealth
657
00:39:03,842 --> 00:39:05,742
in the history of
the United States.
658
00:39:05,744 --> 00:39:08,711
Wars are not meant to be won,
they're meant to be continuous.

659
00:39:08,713 --> 00:39:11,180
And if you want to
hold a continuous war,
660
00:39:11,182 --> 00:39:14,450
whether in real life
or on the internet,
661
00:39:14,452 --> 00:39:16,619
then you need an enemy
that can't be destroyed.
662
00:39:19,057 --> 00:39:24,127
And Anonymous is impervious
to really being destroyed,
663
00:39:24,129 --> 00:39:25,428
because it's decentralized.
664
00:39:25,430 --> 00:39:26,596
It's everywhere.
665
00:39:26,598 --> 00:39:28,164
And it doesn't
even have to exist.
666
00:39:28,166 --> 00:39:31,834
I mean, they could just say
it exists, and then it would.
667
00:39:31,836 --> 00:39:33,736
And it's sort of
just like terrorism.
668
00:39:33,738 --> 00:39:35,104
Terrorists are everywhere.
669
00:39:35,106 --> 00:39:37,740
Terrorists your neighbor
may be a terrorist.
670
00:39:37,742 --> 00:39:40,476
So we have to remain vigilant.
671
00:39:40,478 --> 00:39:44,013
And that's the same thing that's
basically happening online.

672
00:39:44,015 --> 00:39:45,515
Right now I've
got Barrett Brown.
673
00:39:45,517 --> 00:39:46,749
Founder of Project PM.
674
00:39:46,751 --> 00:39:48,217
And one of our cyber experts
675
00:39:48,219 --> 00:39:49,152
Barrett Brown
676
00:39:49,154 --> 00:39:50,820
Joins us now to
break it all down.
677
00:39:50,822 --> 00:39:52,388
So is this an
official declaration
678
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:54,991
of war against Booz Allen
Hamilton and possibly
679
00:39:54,993 --> 00:39:55,992
other contractors?
680
00:39:59,297 --> 00:40:01,764
I still collaborate with some
Anonymous participants
681
00:40:01,766 --> 00:40:05,068
within my own group, Project
PM, acquiring more information
682
00:40:05,070 --> 00:40:08,104
and bringing attention to
what's called the intelligence
683
00:40:08,106 --> 00:40:09,305
contracting industry.
684
00:40:14,379 --> 00:40:16,646
So he has this initiative
called Project PM, which

685
00:40:16,648 --> 00:40:19,449
was a crowdsource wiki that
is supposed to investigate
686
00:40:19,451 --> 00:40:23,119
the mushrooming cyber-security
industrial complex.
687
00:40:23,121 --> 00:40:25,488
It's a collaborative
research project.
688
00:40:25,490 --> 00:40:27,724
You're tapping into the
collective consciousness
689
00:40:27,726 --> 00:40:30,460
of the world, which is always
an incredibly powerful thing
690
00:40:30,462 --> 00:40:31,894
to do.
691
00:40:31,896 --> 00:40:34,130
That is going to be the
future model of journalism.
692
00:40:34,132 --> 00:40:38,234
The collusion in part with
press, mainstream press,
693
00:40:38,236 --> 00:40:41,471
was, we're just going to
sort of look the other way.
694
00:40:41,473 --> 00:40:45,108
We're not going to
actually use the powers
695
00:40:45,110 --> 00:40:46,242
we have available to us.
696
00:40:46,244 --> 00:40:47,810
He was building
up this database
697

00:40:47,812 --> 00:40:52,148

of who was doing what with who,
what intelligence firms are
698
00:40:52,150 --> 00:40:54,984
working for what government
entities, what outside ones are
699
00:40:54,986 --> 00:40:56,586
working together, what
contracts have they
700
00:40:56,588 --> 00:40:59,222
landed that we don't like you
know, all that type of stuff,
701
00:40:59,224 --> 00:41:01,390
stuff they don't want
the public to know about.
702
00:41:09,267 --> 00:41:13,336
There were these hacks
going on that we're expected,
703
00:41:13,338 --> 00:41:16,439
these data dumps.
704
00:41:16,441 --> 00:41:19,575
Shit's about to start getting
crazy, if you know what I mean.
705
00:41:28,019 --> 00:41:29,952
Going through
thousands of emails
706
00:41:29,954 --> 00:41:31,921
is kind of a huge undertaking.
707
00:41:31,923 --> 00:41:33,523
It's a lot of reading.
708
00:41:33,525 --> 00:41:37,026
Did you do that, go through
hundreds of emails?
709
00:41:37,028 --> 00:41:39,929
Can I say that?

710
00:41:39,931 --> 00:41:41,931
These people were
contributing to what
711
00:41:41,933 --> 00:41:44,300
they believed was a
journalistic project.
712
00:41:44,302 --> 00:41:47,303
They were contributing
anonymously,
713
00:41:47,305 --> 00:41:50,606
they thought, to help
the cause of journalism.
714
00:41:50,608 --> 00:41:53,075
Obviously Barrett was
onto something, otherwise
715
00:41:53,077 --> 00:41:55,244
there wouldn't have been
this type of reaction.
716
00:41:59,984 --> 00:42:03,019
41 months, three years'
supervised release, one drug
717
00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:05,321
test within 15 days.
718
00:42:05,323 --> 00:42:08,357
Computer monitoring,
mental health evaluation,
719
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:14,063
$73,000 restitution to US
Treasury to be given to AT&T.
720
00:42:14,065 --> 00:42:15,097
He reached for his phone.
721
00:42:15,099 --> 00:42:16,365
He reached for something.
722
00:42:16,367 --> 00:42:18,201
They fucking tackled

him, handcuffed him,

723
00:42:18,203 --> 00:42:19,769
took him out for,
like, 15 minutes.
724
00:42:19,771 --> 00:42:22,839
He came back not just in, like,
handcuffs but with the thing
725
00:42:22,841 --> 00:42:26,409
around his waist, the
big chain, laughing.
726
00:42:26,411 --> 00:42:28,578
He's seriously walking
around the courtroom,
727
00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:30,446
just going, like
728
00:42:30,949 --> 00:42:31,914
Like that.
729
00:42:31,916 --> 00:42:33,549
I gave him the thumbs up.
730
00:42:48,933 --> 00:42:51,400
How dare you be skillful?
731
00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:54,604
How dare you utilize
your knowledge?
732
00:42:54,606 --> 00:42:55,738
It's fucking absurd.
733
00:42:55,740 --> 00:42:57,039
And of course
it's AT&T's fault.
734
00:42:57,041 --> 00:42:58,574
They are responsible.
735
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:01,978
How can you say that the company
that designed the website

736
00:43:01,980 --> 00:43:05,281
is not responsible for
their security flaws?
737
00:43:05,283 --> 00:43:07,516
So the federal prosecutor
said during Weev's trial
738
00:43:07,518 --> 00:43:10,086
that just because he
has a special skill,
739
00:43:10,088 --> 00:43:12,588
he shouldn't have power
over other people.
740
00:43:12,590 --> 00:43:15,224
That's how they view it.
741
00:43:15,226 --> 00:43:17,460
And it's not incorrect
to say that people
742
00:43:17,462 --> 00:43:20,296
who understand
computers have power.
743
00:43:20,298 --> 00:43:23,132
It's just, I don't think
the answer is coming down
744
00:43:23,134 --> 00:43:26,235
on our prodigies
and our geniuses.
745
00:43:26,237 --> 00:43:27,570
I'll put it this way.
746
00:43:27,572 --> 00:43:28,971
There was a time when
you hacked a company,
747
00:43:28,973 --> 00:43:30,273
and the company hired you.
748
00:43:30,275 --> 00:43:31,974

Now it's you hack a

company, and they come
749
00:43:31,976 --> 00:43:33,776
and they beat the
shit out of you.
750
00:43:56,167 --> 00:44:00,336
Hackers, hacktivists in prison,
by virutally pointing out
751
00:44:00,338 --> 00:44:02,838
weaknesses in the
very structures
752
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:06,642
that we depend on
as a common good.
753
00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:09,145
When we weaken the
common good, for what?
754
00:44:09,147 --> 00:44:10,980
We're turning on ourselves.
755
00:44:10,982 --> 00:44:15,651
And any time a country
empire turns on itself
756
00:44:15,653 --> 00:44:21,190
and begins to find
threats from within, well,
757
00:44:21,192 --> 00:44:23,426
that should tell you
how far gone we are.
758
00:44:31,869 --> 00:44:33,336
Howdy, internet.
759
00:44:33,338 --> 00:44:35,371
My internet blogging must
have pissed somebody off.
760
00:44:35,373 --> 00:44:38,741
They have cut off my
fucking TrulinX access

761
00:44:38,743 --> 00:44:43,779
because, of course, we live
in a country with a childishly
762
00:44:43,781 --> 00:44:46,649
authoritarian government
that can't handle anybody
763
00:44:46,651 --> 00:44:49,518
saying anything mean
about it on the internet.
764
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:50,519
I miss you.
765
00:44:50,521 --> 00:44:51,921
I really do.
766
00:44:51,923 --> 00:44:54,056
There are so many of you that
I can't hopefully I see you
767
00:44:54,058 --> 00:44:56,025
in a couple or years.
768
00:44:56,027 --> 00:44:58,361
I wish I could call each
and every one of you.
769
00:45:01,032 --> 00:45:02,431
I'm still in prison.
770
00:45:02,433 --> 00:45:06,402
I've been denied access
to both sunlight and food.
771
00:45:06,404 --> 00:45:09,305
I can't tweet via the
normal means any longer,
772
00:45:09,307 --> 00:45:12,208
but I will still read
everybody's responses.
773
00:45:12,210 --> 00:45:15,077
They will be snail-mailed to me.

774
00:45:15,079 --> 00:45:17,913
Fucking barbarism!
775
00:45:17,915 --> 00:45:22,885
Keep up the good fight, and
make trouble while I'm gone.
776
00:45:22,887 --> 00:45:27,857
You guys gotta carry the
internet-ruin torch, I suppose.
777
00:45:27,859 --> 00:45:29,558
Oh, god.
778
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:34,163
We've that was one of
his better communiques.
779
00:45:34,165 --> 00:45:36,265
I was outside grabbing
a cup, and I get a call
780
00:45:36,267 --> 00:45:37,767
from an unavailable number.
781
00:45:37,769 --> 00:45:41,070
And it's like, do you want
to accept this toll-free call
782
00:45:41,072 --> 00:45:45,207
from Andrew, from
federal prison?
783
00:45:45,209 --> 00:45:46,609
And I was like,
oh god, it's Weev.
784
00:45:46,611 --> 00:45:48,444
I could barely make
out what he was saying.
785
00:45:48,446 --> 00:45:50,146
But he's like, set
up an Asterisk box
786
00:45:50,148 --> 00:45:52,214

so I can upload
things to SoundCloud.
787
00:45:52,216 --> 00:45:54,383
And I was like, OK, whatever.
788
00:46:00,224 --> 00:46:02,591
He had email access for a month.
789
00:46:02,593 --> 00:46:04,627
Then they took it away,
because they figured out
790
00:46:04,629 --> 00:46:08,230
that he was sending messages
to another person, who
791
00:46:08,232 --> 00:46:10,332
was tweeting them
out from his account.
792
00:46:10,334 --> 00:46:13,436
He and someone else had,
like, code words set up.
793
00:46:13,438 --> 00:46:18,707
So if I said, like, say this to
my mom, or something like that,
794
00:46:18,709 --> 00:46:22,078
then the next line
would be a tweet.
795
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,013
They were trying
to shut him down,
796
00:46:24,015 --> 00:46:26,682
and we found a
way to subvert it.
797
00:46:35,827 --> 00:46:40,830
The more that they try to make
this go away, the government,
798
00:46:40,832 --> 00:46:42,064
it keeps coming back.

799
00:46:42,066 --> 00:46:43,699
And it'll bring more
attention on Weev.
800
00:46:43,701 --> 00:46:46,669
It took him a couple of years
to garner 5,000 followers.
801
00:46:46,671 --> 00:46:49,738
And then as soon as he
goes to jail, in a month,
802
00:46:49,740 --> 00:46:52,208
he gets 5,000 more.
803
00:47:01,452 --> 00:47:03,619
It took them a
month to figure out
804
00:47:03,621 --> 00:47:05,421
that we were uploading
to Soundcloud,
805
00:47:05,423 --> 00:47:07,623
even though there was, like,
news articles about it.
806
00:47:07,625 --> 00:47:11,694
And just a few days ago,
we looked at the caller ID,
807
00:47:11,696 --> 00:47:13,863
because we had two
mysterious phone calls.
808
00:47:13,865 --> 00:47:16,899
One of them was from US
Government, all capitals.
809
00:47:16,901 --> 00:47:21,337
And the other one was from
Federal Bureau of Prisons.
810
00:47:21,339 --> 00:47:23,405
Ever since then, we
haven't heard from him.
811

00:48:05,249 --> 00:48:07,483

Out of kind of the
ashes of LolzSec,
812
00:48:07,485 --> 00:48:10,386
Sabu wants a new
thing, a new group,
813
00:48:10,388 --> 00:48:12,454
a new cause going forward.
814
00:48:12,456 --> 00:48:14,089
And this becomes Antisec.
815
00:48:14,091 --> 00:48:18,093
With the visuals
of machine guns,
816
00:48:18,095 --> 00:48:20,596
this was no longer
a laughing matter.
817
00:48:20,598 --> 00:48:23,499
And they were not
playing games anymore.
818
00:48:23,501 --> 00:48:27,336
He was training people to
attack government websites
819
00:48:27,338 --> 00:48:29,438
and attack large
corporations and businesses.
820
00:48:41,852 --> 00:48:43,752
Greetings, pirates.
821
00:48:43,754 --> 00:48:47,656
And welcome to another exciting
Fuck FBI Friday release.
822
00:48:47,658 --> 00:48:49,658
For Fuck FBI Friday,
823
00:48:49,660 --> 00:48:53,729
we are releasing one gigabyte
of private emails and documents.

824
00:48:53,731 --> 00:48:58,133
It was asking for
trouble, and trouble
825
00:48:58,135 --> 00:49:01,670
came in a way
that like, nobody
826
00:49:01,672 --> 00:49:03,806
could have even written this.
827
00:49:09,113 --> 00:49:13,983
Antisec culminated in Christmas
of 2011 with the Stratfor hack.
828
00:49:13,985 --> 00:49:16,518
I remember, like, being home
with my family on Christmas,
829
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,921
glued to my computer,
like, looking over, trying
830
00:49:18,923 --> 00:49:21,223
to interact with my family,
right at the same time,
831
00:49:21,225 --> 00:49:22,758
you know, the Stratfor
stuff's going on.
832
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,160
And I guess there's
that glee that happens,
833
00:49:25,162 --> 00:49:27,796
the glee that happens whenever
like, oh, this happened,
834
00:49:27,798 --> 00:49:28,998
this big hack.
835
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:30,532
And some people are just
hanging out, you know,
836
00:49:30,534 --> 00:49:35,070

because it's like, I'm a

devotee to train wrecks.
837
00:49:35,072 --> 00:49:37,840
And other people are, like,
seeking out knowledge.
838
00:49:41,445 --> 00:49:44,780
Stratfor is a private
intelligence contractor.
839
00:49:44,782 --> 00:49:50,286
They act as an outsourced,
private version of the CIA.
840
00:49:50,288 --> 00:49:52,821
The National Security
Journalist Joshua Foust
841
00:49:52,823 --> 00:49:58,360
or Foast or Fost
or Faust, maybe, he
842
00:49:58,362 --> 00:50:00,095
said that Stratfor's
no different
843
00:50:00,097 --> 00:50:01,764
than a private investigator.
844
00:50:01,766 --> 00:50:04,166
But PIs don't have
the sort of clientele
845
00:50:04,168 --> 00:50:07,703
that Stratfor had Hunt Oil,
National Oilwell Varco, Emerson
846
00:50:07,705 --> 00:50:10,873
Electric, Dell Computers, and
Northrup Grumman, Lockheed
847
00:50:10,875 --> 00:50:12,608
Martin, Department
of Homeland Security,
848
00:50:12,610 --> 00:50:15,444
Defense Intelligence

Agency, US Marines.
849
00:50:15,446 --> 00:50:17,179
And they don't have
the sort of informants
850
00:50:17,181 --> 00:50:19,948
that Stratfor has Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin
851
00:50:19,950 --> 00:50:21,950
Netanyahu, Mexican
Diplomat Fernando
852
00:50:21,952 --> 00:50:25,554
de la Mora Salcedo, DEA pilot
and sometime supervisor William
853
00:50:25,556 --> 00:50:27,189
F. Dionne, giving
them information
854
00:50:27,191 --> 00:50:31,193
off of JWICS' top secret
classified computer network.
855
00:50:31,195 --> 00:50:33,128
So that's not the
PI that you would
856
00:50:33,130 --> 00:50:35,764
hire to see if your
spouse is cheating on you.
857
00:50:35,766 --> 00:50:36,498
That's Stratfor.
858
00:50:49,613 --> 00:50:51,847
Cyber thieves made off
with the personal details
859
00:50:51,849 --> 00:50:53,682
of hundreds of thousands
of subscribers.
860
00:50:53,684 --> 00:50:55,117
They work up to
find that they'd

861
00:50:55,119 --> 00:50:58,487
given an unexpected Christmas
present, the $50,000
862
00:50:58,489 --> 00:51:01,056
between them, to numerous
high-profile charities.
863
00:51:29,987 --> 00:51:33,722
To take an ex-FBI agents
and use their credit card
864
00:51:33,724 --> 00:51:36,425
to make a donation to the
Red Cross on Christmas Day,
865
00:51:36,427 --> 00:51:37,993
I guess that it's criminal.
866
00:51:37,995 --> 00:51:41,764
But it's also wonderful
in its own way.
867
00:51:41,766 --> 00:51:43,499
The Stratfor
hack, it's claimed,
868
00:51:43,501 --> 00:51:45,868
also contains
email conversations
869
00:51:45,870 --> 00:51:48,604
between Stratfor
employees and officials
870
00:51:48,606 --> 00:51:49,805
in their own government.
871
00:51:49,807 --> 00:51:51,473
Every week a
company or an agency,
872
00:51:51,475 --> 00:51:52,574
is this going to get worse?
873
00:51:52,576 --> 00:51:53,976

I think so.
874
00:51:53,978 --> 00:51:59,267
People broke into something
and, wow, criminals.
875
00:52:00,050 --> 00:52:01,483
Well, OK.
876
00:52:01,485 --> 00:52:03,619
Even if you want to
call them criminals,
877
00:52:03,621 --> 00:52:05,487
they're coming up with
this information that
878
00:52:05,489 --> 00:52:08,624
looks a lot like
criminal activity.
879
00:52:08,626 --> 00:52:10,626
The day that
"WikiLeaks" published
880
00:52:10,628 --> 00:52:12,428
the global intelligence
files, which
881
00:52:12,430 --> 00:52:14,296
is what it calls
the Stratfor Leak,
882
00:52:14,298 --> 00:52:17,566
"The Atlantic" wrote an article
titled, Stratfor is a joke,
883
00:52:17,568 --> 00:52:19,935
and so is WikiLeaks for
taking it seriously.
884
00:52:19,937 --> 00:52:22,104
And that was the
very day of the leak,
885
00:52:22,106 --> 00:52:24,807
so surely they didn't
read the 5 million emails

886
00:52:24,809 --> 00:52:26,909
that I've spent more
than a year researching.
887
00:52:49,934 --> 00:52:53,702
The 5 million emails
have just been published.
888
00:52:53,704 --> 00:52:57,206
The most important
revelations are still unknown.
889
00:53:45,322 --> 00:53:47,456
Infamous Anonymous hacker
890
00:53:47,458 --> 00:53:50,926
Jeremy Hammond, number one
on the FBI cybercrime list,
891
00:53:50,928 --> 00:53:53,195
pled guilty to
Christmas Hacking Spree.
892
00:54:14,084 --> 00:54:16,718
Known as the electronic
Robin Hood.
893
00:54:16,720 --> 00:54:18,287
Jeremy Hammond.
894
00:54:18,289 --> 00:54:19,788
Computer hacker
Jeremy Hammond
895
00:54:19,790 --> 00:54:21,390
has been sentenced to
10 years in prison.
896
00:54:26,397 --> 00:54:29,965
As a former journalist,
a former investigative reporter
897
00:54:29,967 --> 00:54:33,001
for "The New York
Times," I'm stunned
898

00:54:33,003 --> 00:54:35,871

that the rest of my colleagues
well, I mean, frankly I'm
899
00:54:35,873 --> 00:54:38,006
not that stunned are not here.
900
00:54:38,008 --> 00:54:39,942
Jeremy's going to
jail for 10 years.
901
00:54:39,944 --> 00:54:41,977
I don't think a lot of
people in this country
902
00:54:41,979 --> 00:54:45,981
are going to find out about it if
"The New York Times" doesn't cover it.
903
00:54:45,983 --> 00:54:47,316
That's just the way that the
media is set up right now.
904
00:54:47,318 --> 00:54:49,318
There's a lot of people
outside supporting him.
905
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,353
He's gotten a lot of letters.
906
00:54:51,355 --> 00:54:54,289
So, you know
907
00:55:11,308 --> 00:55:17,179
Hammond's actions are
acts of civil disobedience
908
00:55:17,181 --> 00:55:18,246
fundamentally.
909
00:55:18,248 --> 00:55:20,682
In hacking Stratfor,
Jeremy Hammond
910
00:55:20,684 --> 00:55:22,751
achieved some degree
of transparency.

911
00:55:22,753 --> 00:55:25,053
It opened our eyes to things
that we needed to see.
912
00:55:37,201 --> 00:55:40,502
25 years after Bhopal,
913
00:55:40,905 --> 00:55:44,345
after a gas tank
released toxic gas
914
00:55:44,380 --> 00:55:48,377
into the city
surrounding the factory,
915
00:55:48,379 --> 00:55:52,214
they were monitoring
dissent and demonstrations
916
00:55:52,216 --> 00:55:54,583
against Dow Chemical.
917
00:56:03,961 --> 00:56:07,029
Data wants to be free
is the hacker credo.
918
00:56:07,031 --> 00:56:09,197
The real questions
we need to be asking
919
00:56:09,199 --> 00:56:14,403
is, when this data is
shared with people,
920
00:56:14,405 --> 00:56:17,172
who is it benefiting,
and who is it hurting?
921
00:56:17,174 --> 00:56:19,307
Jeremy's apartment,
you know, is just
922
00:56:19,309 --> 00:56:22,511
books scattered about the
floor, books on the shelves.
923
00:56:22,513 --> 00:56:24,680

What could be more

dangerous than books?
924
00:56:24,682 --> 00:56:26,599
The internet...
925
00:56:27,515 --> 00:56:32,290
you know, which is really just
one giant book about all
926
00:56:32,325 --> 00:56:34,592
of us being written
in real time.
927
00:56:52,309 --> 00:56:53,875
Stop projecting this.
928
00:57:07,524 --> 00:57:08,689
We love you!
929
00:57:08,926 --> 00:57:10,492
We love you!
930
00:57:10,494 --> 00:57:11,526
We all love you, Jeremy.
931
00:57:15,499 --> 00:57:17,065
Jeremy, flash your light.
932
00:57:20,471 --> 00:57:23,839
Jeremy, flash your light.
933
00:57:24,927 --> 00:57:26,358
Your mom is here!
934
00:57:26,483 --> 00:57:28,410
Your mom is here!
935
00:57:28,412 --> 00:57:31,179
She loves you!
936
00:57:31,181 --> 00:57:33,482
And I'm proud of
you too, boy.
937
00:57:48,065 --> 00:57:51,066

My name is Barrett
Brown, and I've
938
00:57:51,068 --> 00:57:54,436
been waiting for this
day for about six months.
939
00:57:54,438 --> 00:57:57,038
In a way, I've been
waiting for this day
940
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,307
since I was seven years old.
941
00:57:59,309 --> 00:58:04,813
On March 5, I
received communication
942
00:58:04,815 --> 00:58:06,915
from a certain
individual saying that I
943
00:58:06,917 --> 00:58:10,051
was going to be raided
the next day at my home.
944
00:58:10,053 --> 00:58:12,354
They go to his house,
his apartment.
945
00:58:12,356 --> 00:58:14,723
And he had spent the
night at his mom's house.
946
00:58:14,725 --> 00:58:16,458
You know, I go
to my mom's house
947
00:58:16,460 --> 00:58:17,359
and sleep over there sometimes.
948
00:58:17,361 --> 00:58:18,460
We've been very close.
949
00:58:18,462 --> 00:58:20,395
Next morning, I woke
up at 6:30 by my mom's.

950
00:58:20,397 --> 00:58:21,229
She's scared.
951
00:58:21,231 --> 00:58:21,963
I go downstairs.
952
00:58:21,965 --> 00:58:23,098
There's two FBI agents.
953
00:58:23,100 --> 00:58:26,668
One is named Robert Smith.
954
00:58:26,670 --> 00:58:29,638
He is a FBI cyber-crime fellow.
955
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:32,174
They say, OK, we've raided
your house, your apartment.
956
00:58:32,176 --> 00:58:36,311
Do you have any laptops
here you'd like to give us?
957
00:58:36,313 --> 00:58:38,880
So they get another warrant
for his mother's house
958
00:58:38,882 --> 00:58:42,684
and find the laptop.
959
00:58:42,686 --> 00:58:47,989
Then they charge his mother
with obstruction of justice.
960
00:58:47,991 --> 00:58:51,526
When I was seven years old,
I first heard the term FBI.
961
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:53,929
My parents were fighting a lot.
962
00:58:53,931 --> 00:58:56,832
And my dad would sometimes
get angry and throw things
963
00:58:56,834 --> 00:58:57,999

at my mom.
964
00:58:58,001 --> 00:58:59,301
And part of the
reason for that was
965
00:58:59,303 --> 00:59:01,703
because my dad was being
indicted by the FBI.
966
00:59:01,705 --> 00:59:04,439
And I went from living in a
nice house in Highland Park, one
967
00:59:04,441 --> 00:59:06,074
of the nicest
communities in America,
968
00:59:06,076 --> 00:59:09,010
to living in a two-bedroom
apartment with my mom
969
00:59:09,012 --> 00:59:11,246
and grandma and sharing
a bed with my mom
970
00:59:11,248 --> 00:59:14,482
over the next year, when
I was in third grade.
971
00:59:14,484 --> 00:59:17,953
They'd gone after his father
and bankrupted his father.
972
00:59:17,955 --> 00:59:20,655
And his father was
eventually found innocent
973
00:59:20,657 --> 00:59:22,791
and apologized to by the court.
974
00:59:22,793 --> 00:59:25,527
So basically, the FBI
ruined his family.
975
00:59:31,335 --> 00:59:33,602
It was after that day I
realized I'm a bad guy,

976
00:59:33,604 --> 00:59:35,937
and I had no idea beforehand.
977
00:59:35,939 --> 00:59:39,507
And even now, I still
have trouble really
978
00:59:39,509 --> 00:59:42,277
sort of internalizing that.
979
00:59:42,279 --> 00:59:44,012
But if the FBI says
it, it must be true.
980
00:59:44,014 --> 00:59:45,614
And from now on,
I am the bad guy.
981
00:59:45,616 --> 00:59:48,016
So it's kind of like a quad,
and everybody in the apartment
982
00:59:48,018 --> 00:59:51,286
complex can hear this man
ranting against the FBI
983
00:59:51,288 --> 00:59:52,387
on the balcony.
984
00:59:52,389 --> 00:59:55,790
And I'm getting a
little bit concerned,
985
00:59:55,792 --> 00:59:57,859
but I also want
him to have his
986
00:59:57,861 --> 00:59:59,761
because he's Barrett Brown.
987
00:59:59,763 --> 01:00:01,630
He says crazy stuff.
988
01:00:01,632 --> 01:00:06,601
In the evening, we sit in the
Tinychat, just joking around.

989
01:01:01,391 --> 01:01:05,860
Whoa, is Barrett getting
fucking raided by the FBI?
990
01:01:05,862 --> 01:01:06,828
Holy shit!
991
01:01:13,236 --> 01:01:15,937
If you're in the place
getting raided,
992
01:01:15,939 --> 01:01:18,707
OK, you don't know anything,
because all of a sudden,
993
01:01:18,709 --> 01:01:21,242
your utilities go out.
994
01:01:21,244 --> 01:01:24,546
And the utilities go
out, because the concern
995
01:01:24,548 --> 01:01:27,849
is that the concussion
grenades might start a fire.
996
01:01:27,851 --> 01:01:31,653
So they don't want the gas
or electricity running, OK.
997
01:01:31,655 --> 01:01:34,689
And none of the stuff you
see on television, where
998
01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:38,360
they hit the door with
a battering ram no,
999
01:01:38,362 --> 01:01:40,829
that door comes down
in one blow, OK?
1000
01:01:40,831 --> 01:01:46,634
And you're down on the floor
with one of these macho jerks
1001

01:01:46,636 --> 01:01:50,038

pointing an assault rifle at
your head, swearing at you
1002
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:51,573
and telling you
to freeze, or he's
1003
01:01:51,575 --> 01:01:53,708
going to blow your
fucking brains out.
1004
01:01:53,710 --> 01:01:57,912
The second agent came around
in his camo with his gun,
1005
01:01:57,914 --> 01:01:59,781
and he looked at
me as if he didn't
1006
01:01:59,783 --> 01:02:01,316
know there would
be a girl there.
1007
01:02:01,318 --> 01:02:03,351
Barrett's mother came over.
1008
01:02:03,353 --> 01:02:07,856
She sees Barrett
Brown V, and then
1009
01:02:07,858 --> 01:02:13,661
the ampersand over and over
and over again on Twitter.
1010
01:02:13,663 --> 01:02:17,832
Barrett Brown V& is a way
that people communicate that
1011
01:02:17,834 --> 01:02:20,168
somebody has been arrested.
1012
01:02:20,837 --> 01:02:22,037
He's talking shit.
1013
01:02:22,039 --> 01:02:24,572
There's no crime
against talking shit.

1014
01:02:24,574 --> 01:02:25,707
But maybe there is now.
1015
01:02:34,785 --> 01:02:37,585
What kind of threat ends with
how do you like them apples?
1016
01:02:37,587 --> 01:02:40,955
It's like it's like, from,
like, 1840 or something
1017
01:02:40,957 --> 01:02:42,157
like that.
1018
01:02:42,159 --> 01:02:43,458
If it was just
threatening the agent
1019
01:02:43,460 --> 01:02:44,959
and that's all he was
being charged with,
1020
01:02:44,961 --> 01:02:47,996
I wouldn't even care
about this case.
1021
01:02:47,998 --> 01:02:51,633
Let him and Special Agent Robert
Smith go out back and duke it
1022
01:02:51,635 --> 01:02:54,836
out, or let Special
Agent Smith beat him up
1023
01:02:54,838 --> 01:02:56,304
or whatever he has to do.
1024
01:02:56,306 --> 01:02:59,407
The second indictment
comes, and then it's
1025
01:02:59,409 --> 01:03:01,443
like a fucking kick in the gut.
1026
01:03:08,552 --> 01:03:11,335
All these guys

are doing is trying to

1027
01:03:12,051 --> 01:03:17,125
put the fear in him, trying
to pressure him to flip.
1028
01:03:17,127 --> 01:03:19,928
Barrett's such a
stubborn asshole,
1029
01:03:19,930 --> 01:03:22,097
that he's never going to flip.
1030
01:03:22,099 --> 01:03:25,867
Their claim is that he
took a link, copied it
1031
01:03:25,869 --> 01:03:29,871
it's journalistically important
to get the client list pasted
1032
01:03:29,873 --> 01:03:35,743
it into the Project PM chat
room, and in that one move,
1033
01:03:35,745 --> 01:03:39,547
produced criminal
exposure for himself.
1034
01:03:39,549 --> 01:03:41,716
The Barrett Brown
case is another one
1035
01:03:41,718 --> 01:03:44,152
of these seminal cases,
and the government
1036
01:03:44,154 --> 01:03:46,020
wants to send a very
chilling message.
1037
01:03:46,022 --> 01:03:49,057
It's fundamentally a
First Amendment case.
1038
01:03:49,059 --> 01:03:51,759
How dare you hold
up the mirror to us?

1039
01:03:51,761 --> 01:03:56,264
They called Project PM
a criminal organization.
1040
01:03:56,266 --> 01:03:57,999
And that's what people
freaked out about,
1041
01:03:58,001 --> 01:04:00,502
because there were a whole
bunch of people on that server
1042
01:04:00,504 --> 01:04:02,804
editing that wiki, and like,
wait, there's a criminal
1043
01:04:02,806 --> 01:04:04,739
I think they're after
who, who anyone else?
1044
01:04:04,741 --> 01:04:08,376
Any other names to put on
our list of people to watch?
1045
01:04:08,378 --> 01:04:10,545
The tingly feelings
of, like, paranoia
1046
01:04:10,547 --> 01:04:13,348
are crawling up my
spine like a spider.
1047
01:04:13,350 --> 01:04:14,916
They're there for a reason.
1048
01:04:14,918 --> 01:04:16,818
Just because you're
paranoid doesn't
1049
01:04:16,820 --> 01:04:19,554
mean they're not after you.
1050
01:04:19,556 --> 01:04:21,756
So Jeremy Hammond
did the hack.
1051

01:04:21,758 --> 01:04:24,025

10 years at this point.
1052
01:04:24,027 --> 01:04:27,028
Who's the guy that's looking
at 105 years at this point?
1053
01:04:27,030 --> 01:04:28,229
It's Barrett Brown.
1054
01:04:28,231 --> 01:04:30,265
And what's the difference?
1055
01:04:30,267 --> 01:04:32,433
He's disseminating
the information.
1056
01:04:32,435 --> 01:04:36,237
He's doing something more
dangerous than what Jeremy did.
1057
01:04:36,239 --> 01:04:38,773
Here's the message is
sends, from the government
1058
01:04:38,775 --> 01:04:42,177
to the hacktivists, who
are getting great coverage
1059
01:04:42,179 --> 01:04:44,646
and are becoming folk
heroes through the press.
1060
01:04:44,648 --> 01:04:46,281
Don't talk to the
press, because we're
1061
01:04:46,283 --> 01:04:48,082
going to get their
computers and we're
1062
01:04:48,084 --> 01:04:49,484
going to get their
sources and we're
1063
01:04:49,486 --> 01:04:51,186
going to get you through that.

1064
01:04:51,188 --> 01:04:54,489
To the press who are
covering the hacktivists,
1065
01:04:54,491 --> 01:04:57,325
don't cover these hacktivists,
because we're going to get you.
1066
01:05:20,283 --> 01:05:25,453
I guess what I want, one,
I'm no longer your bitch.
1067
01:05:25,455 --> 01:05:27,589
Two, all of my
charges are dropped.
1068
01:05:27,591 --> 01:05:29,891
Three, all of Barrett
Brown's charges are dropped.
1069
01:05:29,893 --> 01:05:31,092
That's up to the US Attorney.
1070
01:05:31,094 --> 01:05:31,826
Figure it out.
1071
01:05:38,435 --> 01:05:40,501
Hector Xavier Monsegur
1072
01:05:40,503 --> 01:05:43,371
was responsible for the
arrest of Jeremy Hammond
1073
01:05:43,373 --> 01:05:45,840
and other Anonymous
and LulzSec members.
1074
01:05:47,711 --> 01:05:49,210
Sources
1075
01:05:49,212 --> 01:05:51,479
say he began cooperating
with the FBI.
1076
01:06:08,331 --> 01:06:13,568
It like, I felt like my
brains had been blown out,

1077
01:06:13,570 --> 01:06:15,770
like it was the last
scene of "The Departed. "
1078
01:06:15,772 --> 01:06:18,940
The FBI arrests Sabu, and
they turn him within a day.
1079
01:06:18,942 --> 01:06:21,909
And they have him back on
the internet within two days.
1080
01:06:21,911 --> 01:06:23,979
This isn't like...
1081
01:06:24,708 --> 01:06:28,326
some guy going undercover
in the Gambino crime
1082
01:06:28,361 --> 01:06:32,120
family in person for years.
1083
01:06:32,122 --> 01:06:34,656
None of us had ever
met him before.
1084
01:06:34,658 --> 01:06:38,626
He was just this guy we
knew from the internet.
1085
01:06:38,628 --> 01:06:41,296
He talks the talk
so forcefully,
1086
01:06:41,298 --> 01:06:43,364
with that kind of New York
personality you know,
1087
01:06:43,366 --> 01:06:45,867
we are doing the right
thing for the people.
1088
01:06:45,869 --> 01:06:49,003
We are building this
anew from the ground up.
1089

01:06:49,005 --> 01:06:51,655

We are taking down the ugly,
1090
01:06:51,749 --> 01:06:55,820
evil, capitalist, imperial
1091
01:06:56,046 --> 01:06:59,781
machinery, and we are building
it back up with our own hands.
1092
01:06:59,783 --> 01:07:01,749
My brother, he says.
1093
01:07:06,956 --> 01:07:10,558
Looking at Sabu's interactions
with reporters during the time
1094
01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:12,727
that he was an FBI
informant, Sabu
1095
01:07:12,729 --> 01:07:14,729
could have easily just
told the reporter,
1096
01:07:14,731 --> 01:07:17,398
like, no, I don't want
to talk to you, go away.
1097
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:18,933
But that's not what he did.
1098
01:07:18,935 --> 01:07:20,802
He engaged in, like, an hour
and a half long conversation
1099
01:07:20,804 --> 01:07:24,572
and then screen-capped it and handed
that information over to the FBI.
1100
01:07:24,574 --> 01:07:26,007
That's not a free press.
1101
01:07:26,009 --> 01:07:27,975
The government has journalists
under surveillance.
1102

01:07:27,977 --> 01:07:30,678

Do you think the government's
targeting you?
1103
01:07:30,680 --> 01:07:32,480
I hope not.
1104
01:07:32,482 --> 01:07:35,016
I hope I'm not.
1105
01:07:35,018 --> 01:07:36,517
Shit.
1106
01:07:36,519 --> 01:07:40,655
Everybody's paranoia is just
through the fucking roof.
1107
01:07:51,401 --> 01:07:52,900
Wait a sec.
1108
01:07:52,902 --> 01:07:56,904
If he was working for the
FBI from that moment in June
1109
01:07:56,906 --> 01:08:01,843
to this moment now, they
didn't delete his timeline,
1110
01:08:01,845 --> 01:08:03,811
they didn't try to
hide any of that stuff.
1111
01:08:32,308 --> 01:08:34,041
Want to speak to me?
1112
01:08:34,043 --> 01:08:37,578
Want to join the fight?
1113
01:08:37,580 --> 01:08:39,647
Go to Wall Street and protest.
1114
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:06,808
Sabu and Jeremy were
partners in crime.
1115
01:09:06,810 --> 01:09:10,978
They were the digital Bonnie

and Clyde, if you will.

1116
01:09:10,980 --> 01:09:14,749
Except one of them is working
for the FBI the whole time.
1117
01:09:15,107 --> 01:09:17,753
The FBI is operating...
1118
01:09:17,976 --> 01:09:22,081
in sort of a new theater,
which is online.
1119
01:09:22,116 --> 01:09:24,926
The government likes to
use these hyperbolic terms
1120
01:09:24,928 --> 01:09:28,029
referring to cyber-warfare,
cyber-weapons.
1121
01:09:43,413 --> 01:09:46,080
The feds, by
proxy through Sabu,
1122
01:09:46,082 --> 01:09:50,952
were giving Jeremy the zero-days
to get into these websites.
1123
01:09:50,954 --> 01:09:52,854
In order to, say,
entrap a terrorist,
1124
01:09:52,856 --> 01:09:55,022
they would sell him
fake explosives.
1125
01:09:55,024 --> 01:09:59,827
But instead of giving him fake
explosives, the zero-days are real.
1126
01:09:59,829 --> 01:10:03,764
In the hacker world, you either
get in or you don't get in.
1127
01:10:03,766 --> 01:10:08,603
There's no fake hack.

1128
01:10:08,605 --> 01:10:10,771
It wouldn't be a crime
if it was a fake hack.
1129
01:10:26,489 --> 01:10:27,392
Ugh.
1130
01:10:32,862 --> 01:10:35,630
That's the only way I
could describe it dude.
1131
01:10:35,632 --> 01:10:38,966
She fellated him.
1132
01:10:39,451 --> 01:10:45,406
The amount of cooperation
was truly extraordinary.
1133
01:10:45,408 --> 01:10:48,776
And it was just amaz she just
kept saying it over and over.
1134
01:10:48,778 --> 01:10:50,077
It was truly extraordinary.
1135
01:10:55,485 --> 01:10:59,520
You know and I
gotta say too, I
1136
01:10:59,522 --> 01:11:02,089
don't know what I would
have done in his position.
1137
01:11:02,091 --> 01:11:03,624
I really don't.
1138
01:11:06,629 --> 01:11:09,230
You have to walk a mile in
his shoes to understand.
1139
01:11:09,232 --> 01:11:12,033
There's a lot of people that
are going to be mad, though,
1140
01:11:12,035 --> 01:11:15,603
the amount of truly
extraordinary cooperation

1141
01:11:15,605 --> 01:11:17,004
that he gave.
1142
01:11:17,006 --> 01:11:20,174
This was the first time
anybody had ever seen him,
1143
01:11:20,176 --> 01:11:21,542
at least publicly.
1144
01:11:21,544 --> 01:11:22,677
Like, this was real.
1145
01:11:22,679 --> 01:11:24,478
This was finally
coming to a close.
1146
01:11:24,480 --> 01:11:27,315
And he was facing
the guideline
1147
01:11:27,317 --> 01:11:29,850
was between 21 and 26 years.
1148
01:11:34,857 --> 01:11:37,162
He walked out of...
1149
01:11:37,324 --> 01:11:41,935
the Manhattan court
complex... a free man.
1150
01:11:44,968 --> 01:11:46,367
Yeah.
1151
01:11:46,369 --> 01:11:52,073
He immediately cooperated with
the FBI when they arrested him.
1152
01:11:52,075 --> 01:11:54,442
And the judge said
that that was probably
1153
01:11:54,444 --> 01:11:57,111
the most significant
aspect of the case,

1154
01:11:57,113 --> 01:12:01,182
was that Sabu flipped so
quickly, which enabled
1155
01:12:01,184 --> 01:12:05,853
the FBI to sort of become
a part of Anonymous
1156
01:12:05,855 --> 01:12:07,455
over a nine-month period.
1157
01:12:07,457 --> 01:12:12,994
They were apparently sitting at
the computer with him at times.
1158
01:12:12,996 --> 01:12:15,630
He had a camera in
his apartment or house
1159
01:12:15,632 --> 01:12:18,399
that was videotaping
him every day.
1160
01:12:18,401 --> 01:12:22,236
He was debriefed
regularly by the FBI.
1161
01:12:22,238 --> 01:12:26,707
Judge Preska said, and
I quote, I salute you.
1162
01:12:26,709 --> 01:12:30,611
The prosecution and the
defense sort of built him up
1163
01:12:30,613 --> 01:12:33,214
to be this sort of
conservative folk hero,
1164
01:12:33,216 --> 01:12:38,285
like the model FBI
informant, the person who
1165
01:12:38,287 --> 01:12:42,156
every informant should
live up to be, to the point
1166

01:12:42,158 --> 01:12:45,626

where it made it impossible
for them to give him jail time.
1167
01:12:45,628 --> 01:12:48,496
It would have been
it would've been
1168
01:12:48,498 --> 01:12:50,031
bad for the informant
program for him
1169
01:12:50,033 --> 01:12:52,833
to have worked that
long, to work three years
1170
01:12:52,835 --> 01:12:55,302
and then be sentenced to prison.
1171
01:12:57,907 --> 01:13:00,908
Sabu pretty much
neutralized Anonymous.
1172
01:13:00,910 --> 01:13:01,876
Yeah.
1173
01:13:01,878 --> 01:13:04,679
Completely
neutralized Anonymous.
1174
01:13:04,681 --> 01:13:06,547
And after he went
down, everyone's
1175
01:13:06,549 --> 01:13:08,582
afraid of following any leader.
1176
01:13:08,584 --> 01:13:13,721
And they're also afraid of starting
an operation on their own.
1177
01:13:13,723 --> 01:13:15,289
In general, nobody
trusts anyone.
1178
01:13:15,291 --> 01:13:18,259
If you go onto any IRC chat,
they're all just talking about,

1179
01:13:18,261 --> 01:13:19,026
you know, like...
1180
01:13:19,027 --> 01:13:20,027
- "Who's the fed?"
- You're the fed.
1181
01:13:27,837 --> 01:13:29,970
At the end of the day,
he's just a hacker
1182
01:13:29,972 --> 01:13:32,873
getting used by the government.
1183
01:13:32,875 --> 01:13:37,278
Sabu is the big snitch.
1184
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:42,817
Like, the ninth circle of
Hell is reserved for Sabu.
1185
01:13:42,819 --> 01:13:47,221
Him and Cain and, like, Judas
will be there with Satan.
1186
01:14:38,808 --> 01:14:41,008
There's been an
unfortunate deficit
1187
01:14:41,010 --> 01:14:43,844
in what people have read
and what people have written
1188
01:14:43,846 --> 01:14:47,548
about an issue that is of
extraordinary importance...
1189
01:14:47,550 --> 01:14:48,925
TrapWire.
1190
01:14:54,791 --> 01:14:57,424
Barrett sort of shines
the light of this stuff.
1191
01:14:57,426 --> 01:14:59,560
He's like, oh my god,

it's actually happening.

1192
01:14:59,562 --> 01:15:01,428
You've got the
emails right there.
1193
01:15:01,430 --> 01:15:03,697
He stumbles across this.
1194
01:15:03,699 --> 01:15:06,300
He stumbles across it,
starts talking about it.
1195
01:15:19,148 --> 01:15:22,750
TrapWire is software that can
match surveillance data taken
1196
01:15:22,752 --> 01:15:24,785
from multiple closed
circuit cameras
1197
01:15:24,787 --> 01:15:28,088
from across the country.
1198
01:15:28,090 --> 01:15:31,025
Video feeds are fed into
a centralized system that
1199
01:15:31,027 --> 01:15:33,861
analyzes them for patterns
of suspicious behavior.
1200
01:15:37,733 --> 01:15:39,533
To understand
TrapWire, you have
1201
01:15:39,535 --> 01:15:42,970
to understand the
larger context,
1202
01:15:42,972 --> 01:15:47,308
because TrapWire is a critical
piece of the surveillance
1203
01:15:47,310 --> 01:15:48,375
apparatus.
1204

01:15:48,377 --> 01:15:51,579

This is actually doing
very large swath,
1205
01:15:51,581 --> 01:15:53,113
persistent surveillance.
1206
01:15:56,285 --> 01:16:00,721
In 2007, TrapWire
costs about $1.7 million
1207
01:16:00,723 --> 01:16:03,757
to operate in Los
Angeles County.
1208
01:16:03,759 --> 01:16:05,993
What we know about
how it functions
1209
01:16:05,995 --> 01:16:09,496
is largely gleaned
from those emails.
1210
01:16:09,498 --> 01:16:12,289
TrapWire has been
deployed in Seattle,
1211
01:16:12,355 --> 01:16:16,988
in Los Angeles, in DC.
1212
01:16:21,644 --> 01:16:23,811
According to a
Stratfor email, there's
1213
01:16:23,813 --> 01:16:25,946
500 cameras in this
New York City subway
1214
01:16:25,948 --> 01:16:27,715
system equipped with TrapWire.
1215
01:16:27,717 --> 01:16:29,049
"The New York Times"
1216
01:16:29,051 --> 01:16:32,353
said that TrapWire
was only used on 15

1217
01:16:32,355 --> 01:16:36,423
cameras in the entire country,
and that the DHS wrote it off
1218
01:16:36,425 --> 01:16:38,592
as a failure.
1219
01:16:38,594 --> 01:16:40,961
That's a complete lie.
1220
01:16:52,441 --> 01:16:55,476
We had gone to 38th Street
Station to troll TrapWire.
1221
01:16:55,478 --> 01:16:57,645
And so what troll TrapWire
was for us was essentially
1222
01:16:57,647 --> 01:17:01,015
acting out these things that
the security researcher, Justin,
1223
01:17:01,017 --> 01:17:02,650
and other people
had said, this might
1224
01:17:02,652 --> 01:17:04,418
work to trigger
TrapWire's alarms.
1225
01:17:04,420 --> 01:17:06,720
Sitting their holding my
laptop and looking around,
1226
01:17:06,722 --> 01:17:07,855
a little bit.
1227
01:17:07,857 --> 01:17:09,323
You were live-tweeting
the video.
1228
01:17:09,325 --> 01:17:10,724
And you were being ridiculous
about the whole thing.
1229
01:17:10,726 --> 01:17:12,226
Obvious, yeah.

1230
01:17:12,228 --> 01:17:15,829
We ate with a senior official in
the Philadelphia Police Department.
1231
01:17:15,831 --> 01:17:19,099
During this, a homeland security
unit for Philadelphia police
1232
01:17:19,101 --> 01:17:22,202
had come to him and said, Dustin
Slaughter and Kenneth Lipp
1233
01:17:22,204 --> 01:17:24,038
are at 30th Street
Station, and they're
1234
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:25,439
worried that they were
going to smash cameras,
1235
01:17:25,441 --> 01:17:27,041
that we have something
terrorist in mind.
1236
01:17:27,043 --> 01:17:28,208
It blew our minds
when we found out.
1237
01:17:28,210 --> 01:17:29,710
My god, they were
monitoring this.
1238
01:17:29,712 --> 01:17:31,879
They actually were paying attention
and freaked out about it.
1239
01:17:31,881 --> 01:17:34,081
They're doing what
everyone's worried about.
1240
01:17:34,083 --> 01:17:37,418
Anarchists are running all
over the place and smashing,
1241
01:17:37,420 --> 01:17:38,485
burning, looting.

1242
01:17:43,392 --> 01:17:45,326
Coverage of TrapWire
in the US,
1243
01:17:45,328 --> 01:17:47,795
the whole story was
smothered in its crib
1244
01:17:47,797 --> 01:17:51,899
by "The New York Times. "
1245
01:17:51,901 --> 01:17:54,435
It's an open secret that
the mainstream media
1246
01:17:54,437 --> 01:17:57,338
has special access to
the halls of power.
1247
01:17:57,340 --> 01:18:01,542
There was a phrase I
used to hear at NSA
1248
01:18:01,544 --> 01:18:03,844
we're going to tell them
what we want them to hear,
1249
01:18:03,846 --> 01:18:05,579
not what they need to know.
1250
01:18:05,581 --> 01:18:07,881
What we want them to hear.
1251
01:18:07,883 --> 01:18:09,450
That's pure manipulation.
1252
01:18:09,452 --> 01:18:11,385
That is CYOP Info Op.
1253
01:18:11,387 --> 01:18:15,255
You're saying, because
you can, you're
1254
01:18:15,257 --> 01:18:16,523
controlling the narrative.
1255

01:18:21,597 --> 01:18:22,429

Hail victory!
1256
01:18:22,431 --> 01:18:25,032
Go, go, go, go, go.
1257
01:18:38,814 --> 01:18:39,546
What?
1258
01:18:39,548 --> 01:18:40,414
Yeah, dude.
1259
01:18:50,259 --> 01:18:53,394
And my magazines and my
newspapers and my mail.
1260
01:19:02,938 --> 01:19:05,472
I spent the majority
of my time in the SHU.
1261
01:19:08,677 --> 01:19:12,079
They were like, if you continue,
we're going to force-feed you.
1262
01:19:12,081 --> 01:19:15,983
And I'm like, well, you're
gonna force-feed me.
1263
01:19:15,985 --> 01:19:20,220
But hey, I ain't
backing down, you know?
1264
01:19:20,222 --> 01:19:22,389
The infamous computer
hacker known by his alias
1265
01:19:22,391 --> 01:19:26,126
Weev is a free man after
more than a year behind bars.
1266
01:19:26,128 --> 01:19:28,662
An appeals court has now
overturned his conviction.
1267
01:19:52,488 --> 01:19:57,424
Time behind bars has made Weev
even more outspoken than before.

1268
01:19:57,426 --> 01:20:00,928
I can't watch my society rot
when a bunch of federal scum
1269
01:20:00,930 --> 01:20:02,663
just want to throw
anybody that they
1270
01:20:02,665 --> 01:20:04,031
disagree with in a prison cell.
1271
01:20:04,033 --> 01:20:06,166
It's the end of
the West right now,
1272
01:20:06,168 --> 01:20:07,901
and we've got to fight for it.
1273
01:20:07,903 --> 01:20:09,503
Somebody has to.
1274
01:20:09,505 --> 01:20:14,466
You have no instincts to flee,
like Edward Snowden or Julian Assange?
1275
01:20:14,577 --> 01:20:16,631
I'm not running.
This is my country.
1276
01:20:24,487 --> 01:20:26,787
So this case is at
every step of the way
1277
01:20:26,789 --> 01:20:29,756
from the initial
criminal complaint
1278
01:20:29,758 --> 01:20:32,826
to my time in prison has
always been about my speech.
1279
01:20:32,828 --> 01:20:34,661
And they've wanted
to silence me.
1280
01:20:37,566 --> 01:20:39,566
They further

punished me in prison
1281
01:20:39,568 --> 01:20:44,471
and subjected me to conditions
above and beyond any
1282
01:20:44,473 --> 01:20:49,276
of the other prisoners at my
facility because of my speech.
1283
01:20:49,278 --> 01:20:52,646
They wanted me to disappear
from public view and memory.
1284
01:20:55,684 --> 01:21:00,031
It was inside the SHU, like...
1285
01:21:00,457 --> 01:21:02,593
inside the SHU...
1286
01:21:09,031 --> 01:21:11,398
There's an author,
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
1287
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:14,668
He was one of the
few authors that
1288
01:21:14,670 --> 01:21:18,939
kept writing after Stalin
told all the authors that they
1289
01:21:18,941 --> 01:21:23,143
weren't allowed to write any literature
that was compelling anymore.
1290
01:21:23,145 --> 01:21:24,578
And he ended up in a prison
system called the Gulag.
1291
01:21:24,580 --> 01:21:28,348
And he describes there
the steps that they
1292
01:21:28,350 --> 01:21:30,651
do to try to break you down.
1293

01:21:30,653 --> 01:21:34,154

And I kept checking off the
bullet points that he listed.
1294
01:21:34,156 --> 01:21:37,391
He has, like, a 30
bullet point list
1295
01:21:37,393 --> 01:21:40,427
of all the various
interrogatory methods
1296
01:21:40,429 --> 01:21:43,096
that they used in Soviet Russia.
1297
01:21:43,098 --> 01:21:45,365
Temperature extremes
are one of them,
1298
01:21:45,367 --> 01:21:50,070
and they'll turn up the AC
to freezing temperatures
1299
01:21:50,072 --> 01:21:51,405
while he was sleeping.
1300
01:21:51,407 --> 01:21:55,576
And then they'll pump up
the heat during the day.
1301
01:21:55,578 --> 01:21:58,745
And they come and
like, I couldn't
1302
01:21:58,747 --> 01:22:01,615
sleep because they would bang on
the door every once in a while.
1303
01:22:01,617 --> 01:22:04,218
And they'll shine the
flashlight in your eyes
1304
01:22:04,220 --> 01:22:05,819
and keep waking you up at night.
1305
01:22:05,821 --> 01:22:08,355
They'll put you on a bunk, and
then you can't even sit up.

1306
01:22:08,357 --> 01:22:10,757
And there's a light
right next to your head.
1307
01:22:10,759 --> 01:22:13,460
And it's pretty terrible.
1308
01:22:13,462 --> 01:22:15,929
No doubt about it,
it's pretty terrible.
1309
01:22:28,210 --> 01:22:30,177
The surveillance
state's already here.
1310
01:22:30,179 --> 01:22:31,511
It's already here.
1311
01:22:31,513 --> 01:22:33,313
We're constantly on camera.
1312
01:22:33,315 --> 01:22:35,315
Like, we can't put
that back in the box.
1313
01:22:35,317 --> 01:22:37,351
Like, we can fret about
it and say, oh gosh,
1314
01:22:37,353 --> 01:22:38,819
we need more controls.
1315
01:22:38,821 --> 01:22:41,288
That infrastructure is there,
and it's not going away.
1316
01:22:41,290 --> 01:22:43,123
They can watch us
through our webcams.
1317
01:22:43,125 --> 01:22:45,559
They can listen
through our phones.
1318
01:22:45,561 --> 01:22:49,296
There's no privacy

left, virtually.
1319
01:22:49,298 --> 01:22:53,767
We are the most watched,
surveilled, monitored,
1320
01:22:53,769 --> 01:22:58,538
eavesdropped population in
the history of the human race.
1321
01:22:58,540 --> 01:23:01,575
If you have nothing to hide,
as justification for violating
1322
01:23:01,577 --> 01:23:03,610
your rights, then you have
nothing to worry about.
1323
01:23:03,612 --> 01:23:05,345
You know where that
phrase came from?
1324
01:23:05,347 --> 01:23:07,881
Goebbels from the Nazi era.
1325
01:23:07,883 --> 01:23:08,949
Nothing to hide?
1326
01:23:08,951 --> 01:23:11,018
That means there is no privacy.
1327
01:23:12,354 --> 01:23:15,489
I left Iran to come here,
and now I
1328
01:23:15,491 --> 01:23:18,158
can't have security or privacy?
1329
01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:20,727
All we want is just
fucking live our lives.
1330
01:23:20,729 --> 01:23:23,330
Half of us, we don't
even give a shit,
1331
01:23:23,332 --> 01:23:26,033

if we could all be left alone.

1332
01:23:26,035 --> 01:23:29,503
It's my right by
birth to have privacy.
1333
01:23:29,505 --> 01:23:31,972
They want to own you.
1334
01:23:31,974 --> 01:23:35,809
That's a power relationship
superior, inferior.
1335
01:23:35,811 --> 01:23:39,546
If I know every single thing
about you, about what you
1336
01:23:39,548 --> 01:23:42,316
think, how you reason,
what your fears are,
1337
01:23:42,318 --> 01:23:44,518
what you're planning,
what you're doing,
1338
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,386
and you know nothing
about me, because I'm
1339
01:23:46,388 --> 01:23:49,756
shielding my behavior
behind a wall of secrecy,
1340
01:23:49,758 --> 01:23:51,825
I have incredible
power over you.
1341
01:23:51,827 --> 01:23:53,660
The power imbalance
between us is immense,
1342
01:23:53,662 --> 01:23:57,464
because I can now manipulate
you, I can threaten you,
1343
01:23:57,466 --> 01:24:00,033
I can alter your behavior
in all sorts of ways,

1344
01:24:00,035 --> 01:24:02,302
I can anticipate your
behavior, I can prevent you
1345
01:24:02,304 --> 01:24:03,804
from doing things
that you're planning,
1346
01:24:03,806 --> 01:24:06,440
I can prepare in defense
of what you're doing,
1347
01:24:06,442 --> 01:24:08,508
I can always stay many
steps ahead of you.
1348
01:24:08,510 --> 01:24:10,444
This mentality is pathological.
1349
01:24:10,446 --> 01:24:13,280
You have to understand
the mindset.
1350
01:24:13,282 --> 01:24:17,417
You have to understand
the psychology
1351
01:24:17,419 --> 01:24:20,620
behind those who want
to know everything.
1352
01:24:20,622 --> 01:24:23,623
That means anything
hidden, anything private,
1353
01:24:23,625 --> 01:24:26,226
anything sovereign
is a direct threat
1354
01:24:26,228 --> 01:24:28,462
to the surveillance state.
1355
01:24:28,464 --> 01:24:33,133
The capacity of this
agency to spy on people
1356

01:24:33,135 --> 01:24:34,735

and to know everything
that they do
1357
01:24:34,737 --> 01:24:39,906
is so extreme and awesome, at
any moment pure totalitarianism
1358
01:24:39,908 --> 01:24:42,376
could be imposed, and
the American people
1359
01:24:42,378 --> 01:24:43,844
would have no place to hide.
1360
01:24:43,846 --> 01:24:45,912
Security and surveillance
state is put into place
1361
01:24:45,914 --> 01:24:49,516
in order to keep a
population captive.
1362
01:24:49,518 --> 01:24:51,184
And they now have
all the mechanisms
1363
01:24:51,186 --> 01:24:53,220
to do it absolute
iron control,
1364
01:24:53,222 --> 01:24:55,389
over-arrestive
population, should
1365
01:24:55,391 --> 01:24:57,791
the population become restive?
1366
01:24:57,793 --> 01:25:01,328
The United States
unchained itself fully
1367
01:25:01,330 --> 01:25:02,562
from the Constitution.
1368
01:25:02,564 --> 01:25:03,830
People still don't
fully appreciate it.

1369
01:25:03,832 --> 01:25:05,165
We talk about mass
surveillance, all
1370
01:25:05,167 --> 01:25:06,700
this stuff- no,
they've unchained.
1371
01:25:06,702 --> 01:25:08,568
This is an alien
form of government.
1372
01:25:08,570 --> 01:25:10,904
It's completely
anathema to democracy.
1373
01:25:10,906 --> 01:25:13,507
It's completely anathema, but
obviously the government's
1374
01:25:13,509 --> 01:25:15,542
not going to come out
and say, hey, guess what?
1375
01:25:15,544 --> 01:25:17,944
We're under national
emergency conditions.
1376
01:26:03,926 --> 01:26:07,194
I'm going to continue
hitting large companies
1377
01:26:07,196 --> 01:26:08,795
and institutional powers.
1378
01:26:08,797 --> 01:26:12,265
I'm not going to take
no shit from nobody.
1379
01:26:12,267 --> 01:26:14,434
Fuck them if they
can't take a joke.
1380
01:26:40,863 --> 01:26:43,730
I was not going to sit
still and remain silent,

1381
01:26:43,732 --> 01:26:46,666
because if I had
remained silent, I
1382
01:26:46,668 --> 01:26:51,805
myself would have been complicit
in the conduct of a crime
1383
01:26:51,807 --> 01:26:55,075
against the sovereignty
of who we are as people.
1384
01:26:55,077 --> 01:27:00,080
That's We the People, capital
W and capital P, We the People.
1385
01:27:10,959 --> 01:27:14,094
You can just sign off.
1386
01:27:14,096 --> 01:27:16,363
Like, you don't have to
be a victim of trolling.
1387
01:27:16,365 --> 01:27:18,565
Like, you can just
turn off the internet.
1388
01:27:42,991 --> 01:27:44,791
Sabu got off.
1389
01:27:44,793 --> 01:27:47,894
Judge Preska and the
attorneys and the defenders
1390
01:27:47,896 --> 01:27:51,231
got on their knees
and fellated him.
1391
01:27:51,233 --> 01:27:53,266
That's, like, a
lot more sex than I
1392
01:27:53,268 --> 01:27:55,035
remember going on
in the courtroom.
1393
01:27:55,037 --> 01:27:57,470

Don't limit your activism

to just the mere world
1394
01:27:57,472 --> 01:27:58,371
of computers.
1395
01:27:58,373 --> 01:27:59,940
Take it to the streets.
1396
01:27:59,942 --> 01:28:02,275
We need more foot soldiers in
the streets to fuck up shit.
1397
01:28:09,685 --> 01:28:12,619
"Dallas, Texas, native Mr.
Brown joins other infamous
1398
01:28:12,621 --> 01:28:13,920
Texans who fought
the government,
1399
01:28:13,922 --> 01:28:16,323
such as Branch Davidians
at Waco, Texas. "
1400
01:28:16,325 --> 01:28:18,058
Fucking really?
1401
01:28:18,060 --> 01:28:18,992
Really?
1402
01:28:18,994 --> 01:28:20,971
The Branch Davidians?
Really?
1403
01:28:21,223 --> 01:28:22,303
Fuck you.