Little could I have known that when I called him a douchebag and a poseur with an understanding of events that was as deep as a mud puddle, I would forever cement my status as “associated with terrorists.”
Mr. Brown’s latest effort is to personally attack and “harass” military personnel, law enforcement officials, and staff at the Quantico, Virginia military base where Bradley Manning is imprisoned. Anonymous members try to hack into the peoples’ personal accounts and attempt to post personal information and embarrassing details on internet message boards and other outlets.
The attacks are known as “doxing” to the group. They include trying to post details about the individuals’ families such as the names of their children and their home addresses.
A defiant and cocky 29-year-old college dropout, Brown was cavalier about accusations that the group is violating federal laws. He insisted that Anonymous members are only policing corporate and governmental wrongdoing — as its members define it.
Breaking laws, but ‘ethically’
“Our people break laws, just like all people break laws,” he added. “When we break laws, we do it in the service of civil disobedience. We do so ethically. We do it against targets that have asked for it.”
Hey Barrett! Would you mind sending us a copy of the guidelines that you use to determine what is and is not ethical?
Because otherwise we’ll have to assume that you just do whatever your young, inexperienced, arrogant jackassery feels like at the moment.
Nothing cooler than being the named “spokesperson” for an Anonymous group. I happen to be the official spokesman for the Illuminati. You’ll never know who we are! We are secretive and can hide in plain sight. Even when we use our real names on TV.
dicentra, please, Barrett is a committed lefty. To lefties, making money = asking to be attacked.
Very simple guidelines.
Of course, a company can buy indulgences through promoting and giving to the liberal cause du jour, these days defined as “green energy” or “sustainable development.”
Big Oil, though, cannot buy environmental salvation through purchasing green indulgences. Big Oil has sinned and no amount of purchased penance will ever wash away the guilt of Big Oil.
Heh. The whore part was a little over the line perhaps.
Pretty cool. I’m thawing out some Pheasant, from South Dakota, and I see a mature Rooster run across my front yard. He’s got a nice long tail too. So, he’s not a pen bird from last season that escaped the local hunt club. My labs get nuts when they smell them around here.
Pheasant rolls: Hammer the breast nice and flat. Lay out Mushroom, Green onion, and Pepperjack cheese. Roll them up, toothpick together, salt, pepper, olive oil, and grill. Heaven.
I gotta go glaze the fireplace trim and quite screwing around with the internet…..
I just love that a guy who’s spent half his life trying to prove that Hutch is Starsky is out there deciding which laws are worth breaking, and which individuals are worth destroying. There’s nothing new about using the Will to Power to define right and wrong, but it takes a special kind of pomo bastard to say “There’s no such thing as right or wrong, and what we’re doing is right, and our targets are wrongdoers,” in a single breath.
Anyone wanna take bets as to how many guys NSA has in the group already? How many they’ll have in there by Memorial Day?
The problem is that the government makes it far too easy for douchebags (OK, groups of douchebags) like Anonymous to break into systems. And apparently, far too easy for douchebags like Manning to steal sensitive information.
The only government official who is responsible for Manning being tried in this case is Obama. Any bets on whether that fact would even be acknowledged?
It seems to me that the left is acting as if the system we all agree to live under is just for the suckahs lately.
I just posted in the previous thread (“Capitol Chaos”) that a website called Security News Now does not seem to have a high opinion of BB’s “threats” such as they are. Neither does Anonymous.
I remember fondly when Barrette Douchenozzle Brown was going to embarrass me in his book by quoting me calling a douchenozzle a douchenozzle. You are still a douchenozzle, BB. And a liar. And a fabulist. And I hope the Feds give it to you HARD.
“A defiant and cocky 29-year-old college dropout…”
Thats our boy Barrett! I guess the Andrew Sullivan thing didn’t work out which is a shame because they were such a cute couple.
“The ultimate libertarian all other libertarians aspired to be, as I recall…”
Lee,
I remember his clasical liberal claim, seems he’s a tad confused. Maybe we should take up a collection or start a prayer vigil or something.
When we break laws, we do it in the service of civil disobedience.
WTF
First off, I will agree that Lefties in the Government have been making civilians into paper-criminals at a breathtaking pace. It’s right out of the Alinsky playbook to use peoples own sense of propriety and principle against them. Thus we have laws against everything from using the wrong lightbulb to daring to wash down your driveway.
But what you do is challenge that law in the open. You take it to court, you mock the law and put your name to that mocking. You don’t hide in the shadows, call yourself “Anonymous” and pretend what you do is moral because you declare it so and refuse to debate the merits in the open.
It seems to me that people who declare their intent to wage war on the US military perhaps ought not to be surprised if the military wages war right back at them.
Brown, a sometimes freelance journalist, said he is not personally involved in hacking computers, stressing that he only advises the group, participates in its internal strategy sessions and serves as its spokesman.
The loose-knit group of computer hackers reportedly formed around 2003 as an outgrowth of the influential Internet messageboard 4chan, a forum popular with hackers and gamers. The group’s name came from the early days of 4chan, when a post to its forums where no name was given listed the author as “Anonymous.” A spokesman for the group, identified only as “Coldblood” told Britain’s Guardian newspaper in December that the group has about 1,000 members, most of them teenagers.
said Brown: “As always, it ends…We are Anonymous. We do not forgive. We do not forget.”
God’s teeth, Jeff, you do collect the most amazing set of antagonists. If naught else illustrates the value of what you have been writing, it might just be that fact alone…
Little could I have known that when I called him a douchebag and a poseur with an understanding of events that was as deep as a mud puddle, I would forever cement my status as “associated with terrorists.”
Mom will be so proud!
Barrett Brown is just asking to come up missing after going for a morning walk.
Personally, I think Barrett Brown is the intertubes answer to Jake Shannon.
Someone, though, just might take Mr. Brown seriously.
I wonder if he is the anyonmous PR moron that was bantering with Dan Gainor (from Fox) the night they took down AFP?
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/49501
If sock-puppetry was still easy, I’d use the handle ’17 year old girl’ and swoon at the hipness that is Barret Brown.
“Hacktivist”? Hackers are hipster doofuses aren’t they? No self-respecting hipster doofus would call himself a hacktivist.
That’s Make Believe Media level gaywaddishness.
A dox on his house!
Don’t dox me bro!
See also here.
He’s frisching for a bruising.
Someone needs to expose this shitsplat to a platoon of Marines, after telling them just what he’s up to.
For the wall-to-wall counseling, dontcha know.
Hey Barrett! Would you mind sending us a copy of the guidelines that you use to determine what is and is not ethical?
Because otherwise we’ll have to assume that you just do whatever your young, inexperienced, arrogant jackassery feels like at the moment.
Did you just suggest a “code red” for BB?
I think I’m entitled to an answer.
International Man of Mystery. Online revolutionary. Cyberanarchist. A man like that would have an enormous schwanzstucker.
Nothing cooler than being the named “spokesperson” for an Anonymous group. I happen to be the official spokesman for the Illuminati. You’ll never know who we are! We are secretive and can hide in plain sight. Even when we use our real names on TV.
dicentra, please, Barrett is a committed lefty. To lefties, making money = asking to be attacked.
Very simple guidelines.
Of course, a company can buy indulgences through promoting and giving to the liberal cause du jour, these days defined as “green energy” or “sustainable development.”
Big Oil, though, cannot buy environmental salvation through purchasing green indulgences. Big Oil has sinned and no amount of purchased penance will ever wash away the guilt of Big Oil.
Blake = Corporate stooge. Nazi. Hitler hated the unions just like you Blake. Koch whore!
You know, if you say “lostmycookies” real fast, it does sound sorta like “illuminate.”
Actually, wasn’t he one of the “neither left nor right” douchebags?
What he should be… well, I won’t say it. Someone might take it as a threat.
Mr. B., I can’t even qualify as “whore” because there ain’t no one desperate enough to pay me.
Wow. Barrett is like the coolest unemployable college dropout douchebag ever.
drat.
“Illuminati.”
“Actually, wasn’t he one of the “neither left nor right” douchebags?”
The ultimate libertarian all other libertarians aspired to be, as I recall…
Heh. The whore part was a little over the line perhaps.
Pretty cool. I’m thawing out some Pheasant, from South Dakota, and I see a mature Rooster run across my front yard. He’s got a nice long tail too. So, he’s not a pen bird from last season that escaped the local hunt club. My labs get nuts when they smell them around here.
Pheasant rolls: Hammer the breast nice and flat. Lay out Mushroom, Green onion, and Pepperjack cheese. Roll them up, toothpick together, salt, pepper, olive oil, and grill. Heaven.
I gotta go glaze the fireplace trim and quite screwing around with the internet…..
I just love that a guy who’s spent half his life trying to prove that Hutch is Starsky is out there deciding which laws are worth breaking, and which individuals are worth destroying. There’s nothing new about using the Will to Power to define right and wrong, but it takes a special kind of pomo bastard to say “There’s no such thing as right or wrong, and what we’re doing is right, and our targets are wrongdoers,” in a single breath.
Anyone wanna take bets as to how many guys NSA has in the group already? How many they’ll have in there by Memorial Day?
“I gotta go glaze the fireplace trim…”
Is that what they’re calling it these days?
Mr. B, not like I’m denying anything.
“Just Another Random Anonymous Internet Person” here. Nothing to see, move along.
The problem is that the government makes it far too easy for douchebags (OK, groups of douchebags) like Anonymous to break into systems. And apparently, far too easy for douchebags like Manning to steal sensitive information.
Information security is not their strength.
The only government official who is responsible for Manning being tried in this case is Obama. Any bets on whether that fact would even be acknowledged?
It seems to me that the left is acting as if the system we all agree to live under is just for the suckahs lately.
Beat it.
Abe Froman posted on 3/9 @ 3:05 pm
Wow. Barrett is like the coolest unemployable college dropout douchebag ever.
Nice. You just summed up Barrett well in 11 words.
Everybody feeling real good about all the info the IRS has on you about now?
I shoulda labeled that last post “Barrett Brown’s porn choice for glazing the fireplace trim, IYKWIM.”
I’m having a hard time imagining BB glazing trim. In any sense of the phrase “glazing trim.”
I just posted in the previous thread (“Capitol Chaos”) that a website called Security News Now does not seem to have a high opinion of BB’s “threats” such as they are. Neither does Anonymous.
I remember fondly when Barrette Douchenozzle Brown was going to embarrass me in his book by quoting me calling a douchenozzle a douchenozzle. You are still a douchenozzle, BB. And a liar. And a fabulist. And I hope the Feds give it to you HARD.
“A defiant and cocky 29-year-old college dropout…”
Thats our boy Barrett! I guess the Andrew Sullivan thing didn’t work out which is a shame because they were such a cute couple.
“The ultimate libertarian all other libertarians aspired to be, as I recall…”
Lee,
I remember his clasical liberal claim, seems he’s a tad confused. Maybe we should take up a collection or start a prayer vigil or something.
The fact that he is on record as intensely disliking religion would make that all the much sweeter.
He’s going to make such a cute little splat when he comes back down to earth.
When we break laws, we do it in the service of civil disobedience.
WTF
First off, I will agree that Lefties in the Government have been making civilians into paper-criminals at a breathtaking pace. It’s right out of the Alinsky playbook to use peoples own sense of propriety and principle against them. Thus we have laws against everything from using the wrong lightbulb to daring to wash down your driveway.
But what you do is challenge that law in the open. You take it to court, you mock the law and put your name to that mocking. You don’t hide in the shadows, call yourself “Anonymous” and pretend what you do is moral because you declare it so and refuse to debate the merits in the open.
It seems to me that people who declare their intent to wage war on the US military perhaps ought not to be surprised if the military wages war right back at them.
I know which way I’d bet.
Oh, Anonymous. Go back to harassing child molesters; that’s a respectable pastime.
Also, whatever happened to “/b/ is not your private army”? Someone’s forgotten their own rules.
This is so fucking funny.
I think Mr. Jeansn’blazer may have just admitted to several inchoate crimes.
For a minute there, I thought perhaps Jeff had been hired by The Onion to write MSNBC spoof articles.
A freelance poseur. Meh.
Or spokesmodel, possibly.
Baghdad Barrett Brown and his Band of Renown.
I was once defiant and cocky. However, I got over it by the time I was 10 or so.
Dad really didn’t tolerate backtalk and was quicker than a snake.
“I shoulda labeled that last post “Barrett Brown’s porn choice for glazing the fireplace trim, IYKWIM.”
I know eleven started it, but I might start stalking you on here again, just for the fun of it.
You guys are great. My sense of humor.
He’ll be here in 3.2.1… )
Did I say mean things about Señor Douchenozzle?!
Every time y’all call him douchnozzle coochies recoil in horror.
Call him butt plug… douchnozzle is so p-p-p-personal.
And in Barret’s case, they don’t grow up.
God’s teeth, Jeff, you do collect the most amazing set of antagonists. If naught else illustrates the value of what you have been writing, it might just be that fact alone…
“said Brown: “As always, it ends…We are Anonymous. We do not forgive. We do not forget.”
And in Barret’s case, they don’t grow up.
Which is why they spend so much time trying to make Junior High School girls cry on the internet.
But he does have the loveliest hair, you know. All the best anarchists have exquisite barnets.
A glorious douchenozzle, is he.
Looking forward to having the NSA black ops goons pick up Mr. Brown and sweat him for names in the back of some warehouse…