March 22 Reason interview with Barrett Brown, and overview of how it came to 'all that'

Razer g2s at riseup.net
Fri Mar 24 09:57:27 PDT 2017


https://youtu.be/72fq-2dp3XM

Often straddling a line between journalist and participant, Brown's rise
to prominence tracks that of the hacker collective Anonymous, perhaps
best remembered for its campaigns against Scientology. Media outlets
characterized Brown, not always entirely to his liking, as the spokesman
for Anonymous, and it would be his association with hackers that would
later put Brown on the FBI's radar.

For his part, Brown believes that it was his investigation into several
private intelligence contractors following the hack of a firm called HB
Gary. Brown and his team discovered in the emails that several of the
firms had joined together into a conglomerate called Team Themis, and
that one of Team Themis' projects was to develop potential lines of
attack against critical organizations like Wikileaks and journalists
such as Glenn Greenwald.

Brown sat down with Reason TV in the Dallas headquarters of D Magazine,
where he now works covering city council meetings, to talk about life in
federal prison, the state of the private intelligence industry, what an
ever-leakier world means for the future of U.S. politics and culture,
and his plans to create a decentralized activism network based on
lessons learned from Anonymous meant to shake up media and governmental
institutions.

Approximately 19 minutes.

Produced by Zach Weissmueller. Camera by Mark McDaniel and Alexis
Garcia. Music by Kai Engel.



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