[Cryptography][Law] Jeremy Hammond Banned from using Cryptography

[John Young]

Still, recognize that hammering Hammond is meant to be
sickening, as with Manning, Anonymous and Lulzsec members.
In every case rats were coerced into incriminating others by
threats of doing to them what was done to Hammond. If nobody
is ever hammered the threats are not taken seriously.

At a HOPE panel on informants, several hackers disclosed
those pressures to rat, some succumbed and were let off,
Emmanuel Goldstein admitted it, some refused and were
jailed, Bernie-X, Kevin Mitnick. All agreed it is far worse to
go through than you think. Goldstein estimated 25% of hackers
are rats.

Barrett Brown is on the hot seat right now, being offering deals
to rat, as customary, with three (!) trials postponed to maintain
pressure. Shit, even his mom was used as a fed provocation to
misbehave then as a persuasion club as were Sabu's nephew
and niece.

Anybody with a high profile is targeted, so beware publicity
hounds crowing of derrying-do and urgings by high profilers
who may or may not be in the grips of the feds, and if not,
will soon be due to their publicity narcosis, and then used
as clubs or head to jail for obstruction and recidivism or
some other nut-squeezing -- even in jail they are offered
deals to rat and sentence reduced.

In or out jail the pressure to rat continues, as with Adrian
Lamo. Ex-cons never know if an overture is an LE sting or a
an honest request for advice, so they rat to be safe -- recall
they are obliged -- forever -- to report overtures, just like
ex-spies remain under the gun to rat for life. If you haven't
been there don't imagine you know what it's like.

Don't imagine this list and others like it, chats, OTRs, TOR,
are not being spied for easy targets.



At 10:50 AM 11/16/2013, you wrote:
>I hope you realize I was making a point about the challenges of
>ex-felons in general, and not making a judgment on Hammond. He is
>obviously brilliant and courageous, and many activists with the
>ability to hire employees would be more than willing to help and
>employ him when he gets out...
>
>Witnessing his sentencing yesterday was physically sickening, and
>definitely the worst abuse of our "justice" system I've ever seen. I
>can only hope it inspires, rather than intimidates, other activists
>and hackers to continue the type of work that he did.
>
>Dan
>
>On 11/16/2013 01:12 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> >> The only exception in the sentence is his use of encryption as
> >> required by employment. But it's hard enough for ex-felons to
> >> find a job after getting released as it is...
> >>
> >
> > I would hire him in a flat second and I would encourage others to
> > do the same.
> >
> > Jeremy has a good heart and a great mind - I hope that after TEN
> > YEARS IN PRISON for breeching a WEBSITE and EMAIL SERVER that
> > people will consider his time served and help him to re-enter
> > society.
> >
> > This sentence is so disproportionate and unjust, it is sickening,
> > it is revolting and it is infuriating.
> >
> > With contempt and disgust for this show at the US Court system
> > today, Jacob
> >
>
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