1 00:00:20,454 --> 00:00:21,386 Anonymous 2 00:00:21,388 --> 00:00:22,321 Cyber attack 3 00:00:22,323 --> 00:00:23,822 A new kind of warfare 4 00:00:23,824 --> 00:00:25,257 Hackers and activists 5 00:00:25,259 --> 00:00:26,124 Security leaks 6 00:00:26,126 --> 00:00:26,992 Computer hackers 7 00:00:26,994 --> 00:00:27,791 Hackers 8 00:00:27,826 --> 00:00:29,224 Hacktivists. 9 00:00:34,802 --> 00:00:37,536 Anonymous has struck again, with a warning, 10 00:00:37,538 --> 00:00:38,937 this is just the beginning. 11 00:00:38,939 --> 00:00:41,673 Anonymous is a collective known for recent attacks 12 00:00:41,675 --> 00:00:43,175 on government and corporate websites. 13 00:00:43,177 --> 00:00:45,143 The internet is a powerful new medium 14 00:00:45,145 --> 00:00:48,080 where just a handful of people in small groups, 15 00:00:48,082 --> 00:00:50,749 just by shifting data around in the right directions, 16 00:00:50,751 --> 00:00:52,884 can make big changes and big damage. 17 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:55,120 The more you said, the more frightening it was. 18 00:00:55,122 --> 00:00:57,189 The Pentagon is now singling out Anonymous 19 00:00:57,191 --> 00:01:00,292 as an example of the serious new cyber-threats 20 00:01:00,294 --> 00:01:01,693 facing the country. 21 00:01:01,695 --> 00:01:03,995 The fundamental unit here is information warfare. 22 00:01:03,997 --> 00:01:07,466 We're gaining back the freedoms that the forefathers assured us 23 00:01:07,468 --> 00:01:09,901 through technology, and we can't we can't allow these 24 00:01:09,903 --> 00:01:11,436 freedoms to be taken away. 25 00:01:11,438 --> 00:01:16,246 I will put my body on the altar of liberty again and again and again. 26 00:01:23,550 --> 00:01:25,250 Information is the weapon. 27 00:01:25,252 --> 00:01:27,986 And information properly understood and properly used 28 00:01:27,988 --> 00:01:31,223 in an honest way is more effective than anything else 29 00:01:31,225 --> 00:01:32,090 in the world. 30 00:01:38,832 --> 00:01:41,233 If you've got your eye on Boeing, yeah, please go for it. 31 00:01:41,235 --> 00:01:42,901 I'd like to see those fuckers go down. 32 00:01:42,903 --> 00:01:45,270 Dial the code, modify the code just a bid. 33 00:01:45,272 --> 00:01:46,405 Bombard the Pentagon. 34 00:01:46,407 --> 00:01:48,473 You're either with us, or you're against us. 35 00:02:04,224 --> 00:02:06,558 You have 15 minutes 36 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,226 available for this call. 37 00:02:08,228 --> 00:02:09,895 Hello? 38 00:02:09,897 --> 00:02:11,296 Uh. 39 00:02:11,298 --> 00:02:13,432 Andrew, are you there? 40 00:02:22,109 --> 00:02:24,743 It's not scary to be going to prison? 41 00:02:24,745 --> 00:02:26,745 No, I never was scared to be going to prison. 42 00:02:26,747 --> 00:02:28,413 There's all these cool people, and I'm 43 00:02:28,415 --> 00:02:29,981 learning all these cool things. 44 00:02:29,983 --> 00:02:34,319 And I'm making lifelong future friends and future business 45 00:02:34,321 --> 00:02:35,253 partners, certainly. 46 00:02:47,034 --> 00:02:49,668 Embarrassing people, I enjoy it. 47 00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:51,069 It's viscerally fun. 48 00:02:51,071 --> 00:02:52,571 He's an instigator. 49 00:02:52,573 --> 00:02:53,538 The most lovable little pest 50 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:54,706 on the internet. 51 00:02:54,708 --> 00:02:56,241 His ability 52 00:02:56,243 --> 00:02:57,976 to make other people so angry is the talent that he has. 53 00:02:57,978 --> 00:03:00,812 Almost 90% of the articles that come out for Weev, they 54 00:03:00,814 --> 00:03:03,993 all start out with, he's a dick, he's an asshole. 55 00:03:04,337 --> 00:03:09,855 Little Weev is going to troll the fuck out of Apple and AT&T. 56 00:03:21,168 --> 00:03:25,610 How do I plan on keeping my corn bread safe in prison? 57 00:03:27,179 --> 00:03:30,274 I will stab a nigger that dares 58 00:03:30,617 --> 00:03:34,051 reach across my plate. 59 00:03:38,986 --> 00:03:43,922 I am the Bruce Lee of regexp. 60 00:03:43,924 --> 00:03:45,690 I didn't get caught. 61 00:03:45,692 --> 00:03:48,126 I put my name on what I did. 62 00:03:48,128 --> 00:03:51,563 I'm not here to play nice with AT&T. I'm here 63 00:03:51,565 --> 00:03:53,064 to comment and criticize. 64 00:03:53,066 --> 00:03:56,368 There was a URL on an AT&T web server 65 00:03:56,370 --> 00:03:57,569 with a number at the end. 66 00:03:57,571 --> 00:03:59,938 And if you add one to this number, 67 00:03:59,940 --> 00:04:02,641 like you could have typed it in the iPad web browser over 68 00:04:02,643 --> 00:04:07,913 and over again, you would see the next iPad 3G user's email address. 69 00:04:15,789 --> 00:04:17,989 Here's AT&T handing out a complete target 70 00:04:17,991 --> 00:04:19,558 list of their customers. 71 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,762 I was morally required to come forward and sort of put them 72 00:04:23,764 --> 00:04:24,996 over the coals for this. 73 00:04:24,998 --> 00:04:26,898 It was, like, 114,000 email addresses. 74 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:28,767 And it's quite a list. 75 00:04:28,769 --> 00:04:30,535 "New York Times" CEO Janet Robinson. 76 00:04:30,537 --> 00:04:31,636 White House Chief 77 00:04:31,638 --> 00:04:32,904 of Staff Rahm Emanuel. 78 00:04:32,906 --> 00:04:34,205 Diane Sawyer. 79 00:04:34,207 --> 00:04:35,173 Not to mention 80 00:04:35,175 --> 00:04:36,474 the US Army and Congress. 81 00:04:36,476 --> 00:04:38,143 And it doesn't get much more high profile 82 00:04:38,145 --> 00:04:41,012 than Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City. 83 00:04:41,014 --> 00:04:43,048 Mayor Bloomberg was like, this isn't a big deal. 84 00:04:43,050 --> 00:04:45,283 It's not like people can't find my email address. 85 00:04:58,765 --> 00:05:01,132 I'm aggregating public data and using 86 00:05:01,134 --> 00:05:04,469 it to criticize people whose politics I dislike. 87 00:05:04,471 --> 00:05:07,572 The FBI is combing through people's emails, 88 00:05:07,574 --> 00:05:09,708 grossly violating their constitutional rights. 89 00:05:09,710 --> 00:05:11,376 I think I have moral superiority here. 90 00:05:21,288 --> 00:05:23,021 NSA and FBI are both walking here. 91 00:05:23,023 --> 00:05:24,456 And they're looking at the computers. 92 00:05:24,458 --> 00:05:26,858 And they're like, oh my god, these red dots, 93 00:05:26,860 --> 00:05:29,260 they're converging. 94 00:05:29,262 --> 00:05:32,263 They hit a button, renh, renh. 95 00:05:32,265 --> 00:05:33,531 No black SUV. 96 00:05:33,533 --> 00:05:37,535 There's been black SUVs outside the past couple of days. 97 00:05:42,309 --> 00:05:44,376 All the red dots are in the same room right now. 98 00:05:44,378 --> 00:05:46,011 There's going to be even more later. 99 00:05:46,013 --> 00:05:47,812 Magic fucking genie. 100 00:05:47,814 --> 00:05:48,980 You're actually in power. 101 00:05:48,982 --> 00:05:50,415 You're in charge. 102 00:05:50,417 --> 00:05:52,617 The most drastic improvements that need to be made 103 00:05:52,619 --> 00:05:54,219 are in the education system. 104 00:05:54,221 --> 00:05:57,455 We need to give people the kind of classical Western education 105 00:05:57,457 --> 00:05:58,423 that they used to have. 106 00:05:58,425 --> 00:06:00,692 We need a curriculum that embraces, 107 00:06:00,694 --> 00:06:02,927 you know, like, Keats and Byron. 108 00:06:02,929 --> 00:06:05,764 It doesn't sound revolutionary. 109 00:06:05,766 --> 00:06:07,132 It's absolutely revolutionary. 110 00:06:07,134 --> 00:06:09,334 We have people in power that have explicitly 111 00:06:09,336 --> 00:06:12,270 engineered our education system to make people dumb, 112 00:06:12,272 --> 00:06:14,005 obedient, and uncreative. 113 00:06:14,007 --> 00:06:17,275 Getting them out of fucking power and remaking it 114 00:06:17,277 --> 00:06:21,212 so people can be free-thinking, well-educated, sensible, 115 00:06:21,214 --> 00:06:23,782 non-reactionary people, this is a revolutionary thing. 116 00:06:23,784 --> 00:06:25,183 And it's probably going to require 117 00:06:25,185 --> 00:06:28,887 a whole lot of bloodshed. 118 00:06:28,889 --> 00:06:31,222 Why has the FBI targeted you? 119 00:06:31,224 --> 00:06:32,691 They have, by their own admission, 120 00:06:32,693 --> 00:06:35,427 been surveilling me since I was 15 years old. 121 00:06:35,429 --> 00:06:36,995 That was in the search warrant they 122 00:06:36,997 --> 00:06:39,030 used to kick in my door in 2010. 123 00:06:39,032 --> 00:06:40,565 And why? 124 00:06:40,567 --> 00:06:44,936 They wanted me to it inform on hackers on the internet. 125 00:06:44,938 --> 00:06:49,307 They've tried to get me to do that many times. 126 00:06:49,309 --> 00:06:53,511 There is a congruence between whistleblowing and hacktivism 127 00:06:53,513 --> 00:06:54,245 and hacktivists. 128 00:06:59,186 --> 00:07:03,421 The similarity is speaking truth to and of power, 129 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:06,357 revealing the power structure whether it's corporate, 130 00:07:06,359 --> 00:07:09,294 whether it's government, or both. 131 00:07:09,296 --> 00:07:12,163 I was a senior executive at the National Security Agency. 132 00:07:12,165 --> 00:07:14,632 And I served there for about six and a half years. 133 00:07:14,634 --> 00:07:16,835 I blew the whistle on the secret surveillance programs 134 00:07:16,837 --> 00:07:20,371 called Stellar Wind, which were the foundational surveillance 135 00:07:20,373 --> 00:07:23,641 programs that ultimately Edward Snowden, 12 years later, 136 00:07:23,643 --> 00:07:26,010 is now disclosing through reporters and journalists. 137 00:07:26,012 --> 00:07:28,079 The government went ahead and prosecuted me 138 00:07:28,081 --> 00:07:30,982 under the Espionage Act. 139 00:07:30,984 --> 00:07:32,751 It was a 10 felony count indictment. 140 00:07:32,753 --> 00:07:34,552 I faced 35 years in prison. 141 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:51,236 Hackers are important in the sense 142 00:07:51,238 --> 00:07:53,371 that they have the capacity to expose 143 00:07:53,373 --> 00:07:55,540 the secret or the inner workings of the state, which 144 00:07:55,542 --> 00:07:57,909 is why they are terrified of hackers, 145 00:07:57,911 --> 00:08:01,479 and they are going after them with phenomenal vengeance. 146 00:08:08,355 --> 00:08:10,922 We are looking at increased transparency. 147 00:08:10,924 --> 00:08:12,257 Unprecedented transparency. 148 00:08:52,332 --> 00:08:54,098 He called the former head of the NSA 149 00:08:54,100 --> 00:08:57,535 at home on a weekly basis for a couple of months, 150 00:08:57,537 --> 00:08:59,037 trying to get him to talk to him. 151 00:08:59,039 --> 00:09:00,772 Barrett was speaking in that language 152 00:09:00,774 --> 00:09:03,741 of real adversarial journalism, that the purpose of journalism 153 00:09:03,743 --> 00:09:07,545 is not to please those in power but to report the truth, even 154 00:09:07,547 --> 00:09:11,509 when it makes those in power uncomfortable or reflects poorly on them. 155 00:09:25,065 --> 00:09:27,265 29 years old, a cocky college dropout, 156 00:09:27,267 --> 00:09:29,500 a self-described anarchist, Brown 157 00:09:29,502 --> 00:09:31,970 proclaims he is policing wrongdoing. 158 00:09:31,972 --> 00:09:35,373 He was brash, he was cocky, he was arrogant. 159 00:09:35,375 --> 00:09:37,842 He was fucking full of himself. 160 00:09:37,844 --> 00:09:39,277 He's awfully narcissistic. 161 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:42,146 He held court, so to speak, from his bathtub. 162 00:09:42,148 --> 00:09:43,481 Fucking around on Tinychat. 163 00:10:04,037 --> 00:10:06,204 The take of NBC brass was Barrett 164 00:10:06,206 --> 00:10:09,696 was not a very appealing character. 165 00:10:09,974 --> 00:10:12,984 He was not somebody that... 166 00:10:12,987 --> 00:10:17,710 they wanted to tout as in any way 167 00:10:17,745 --> 00:10:20,318 heroic or doing an admirable thing. 168 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:21,753 Barrett was somebody who was very 169 00:10:21,755 --> 00:10:25,356 open about his own struggles with substance abuse. 170 00:10:25,358 --> 00:10:28,993 He was on a maintenance drug, like a methadone. 171 00:10:28,995 --> 00:10:30,328 He was on Suboxone. 172 00:10:30,330 --> 00:10:34,933 At least he was trying to stay off hard drugs, 173 00:10:34,935 --> 00:10:36,301 to be on at least a medicine. 174 00:10:42,409 --> 00:10:44,943 Who are the members of Anonymous? 175 00:10:44,945 --> 00:10:46,144 Who are they? 176 00:10:46,146 --> 00:10:47,111 They're everyone. 177 00:10:47,113 --> 00:10:48,246 I mean, you'd be amazed. 178 00:10:48,248 --> 00:10:49,514 There's obviously a lot of people 179 00:10:49,516 --> 00:10:50,915 who are hackers who just working in IT. 180 00:10:50,917 --> 00:10:53,351 They work for major corporations in some cases. 181 00:10:53,353 --> 00:10:57,288 There's journalists, writers of all kinds, people 182 00:10:57,290 --> 00:10:59,390 who work at gas stations. 183 00:11:03,830 --> 00:11:06,264 What is Anonymous? 184 00:11:06,266 --> 00:11:07,799 It's basically the power 185 00:11:07,801 --> 00:11:09,901 of an absolutely massive group of people coming together. 186 00:11:09,903 --> 00:11:12,570 Anonymous are your brothers and sisters, 187 00:11:12,572 --> 00:11:15,840 your sons and daughters, your parents and your friends. 188 00:11:15,842 --> 00:11:17,308 Anonymous is you. 189 00:11:27,554 --> 00:11:31,522 Anonymous cannot and will not stand idly while 190 00:11:31,524 --> 00:11:34,892 people are being denied their basic rights and human 191 00:11:34,894 --> 00:11:36,160 liberties. 192 00:11:36,162 --> 00:11:37,328 Understand that something 193 00:11:37,330 --> 00:11:39,430 is horribly wrong with this world. 194 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:49,774 The Tunisian government 195 00:11:49,776 --> 00:11:52,076 has made itself an enemy of Anonymous. 196 00:11:52,078 --> 00:11:55,646 The Egyptian government has revealed itself to be criminal. 197 00:11:55,648 --> 00:11:58,683 For the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment. 198 00:11:58,685 --> 00:12:01,319 To end the corruption, we must expose it. 199 00:12:01,321 --> 00:12:02,720 If you 200 00:12:02,722 --> 00:12:05,556 are working for a corrupt company, leak the data. 201 00:12:05,558 --> 00:12:09,861 If you are working for a corrupt government, leak the documents. 202 00:12:09,863 --> 00:12:11,162 Think for yourself. 203 00:12:11,164 --> 00:12:12,397 Question authority. 204 00:12:12,399 --> 00:12:14,098 Join us in this battle 205 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:17,135 for freedom of information worldwide. 206 00:12:17,137 --> 00:12:19,270 Remember, we are you. 207 00:12:19,272 --> 00:12:20,471 Anonymous is you. 208 00:12:20,473 --> 00:12:22,306 And you are Anonymous. 209 00:12:22,308 --> 00:12:24,442 You are fighting for yourself, the web, 210 00:12:24,444 --> 00:12:26,978 and for the next step in evolution. 211 00:12:30,316 --> 00:12:32,083 It's a very interesting relationship 212 00:12:32,085 --> 00:12:34,786 Barrett has with Anonymous. 213 00:12:34,788 --> 00:12:35,853 Barrett's Anonymous. 214 00:12:35,855 --> 00:12:38,289 He's their spokesperson. 215 00:12:38,291 --> 00:12:39,590 Barrett's not Anonymous. 216 00:12:39,592 --> 00:12:41,192 He's not their spokesperson. 217 00:12:41,194 --> 00:12:42,527 Is Barrett really Anonymous? 218 00:12:42,529 --> 00:12:44,495 Because he doesn't hack, and he doesn't really 219 00:12:44,497 --> 00:12:46,364 have computer skills. 220 00:12:46,366 --> 00:12:49,067 Well, does he have a Guy Fawkes mask? 221 00:12:51,671 --> 00:12:55,373 He was fulfilling a very valuable and important 222 00:12:55,375 --> 00:12:58,042 function, which was to give anonymous 223 00:12:58,044 --> 00:12:59,444 the legitimacy it needed. 224 00:12:59,446 --> 00:13:01,379 He was the person who was willing to go on record. 225 00:13:01,381 --> 00:13:02,980 It's an open brand. 226 00:13:02,982 --> 00:13:05,883 Like, anyone can sort of label what they're doing Anonymous. 227 00:13:05,885 --> 00:13:09,220 If you're doing something that people don't approve, 228 00:13:09,222 --> 00:13:11,289 then Anonymous will turn in on itself 229 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:14,325 and sort of eliminate that. 230 00:13:14,327 --> 00:13:16,494 Like, whatever it is that doesn't fit in 231 00:13:16,496 --> 00:13:21,466 with the truth-seeking, justice-seeking ideology. 232 00:13:21,468 --> 00:13:24,936 Are you not worried that even an informal involvement 233 00:13:24,938 --> 00:13:28,573 with Anonymous is going to end up with you targeted, 234 00:13:28,575 --> 00:13:30,641 with you potentially going to jail for this? 235 00:13:37,383 --> 00:13:41,619 He was interacting with other hackers. 236 00:13:41,621 --> 00:13:46,524 A couple times, he wanted to make the point that he was not 237 00:13:46,526 --> 00:13:50,161 a hacker, that he was of the community. 238 00:13:52,599 --> 00:13:55,066 Anonymous members try to hack into people's personal accounts 239 00:13:55,068 --> 00:13:57,101 and attempt to expose personal information. 240 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,307 And if we did, we wouldn't go around bragging about it 241 00:14:03,309 --> 00:14:04,475 beforehand. 242 00:14:04,477 --> 00:14:06,611 We would wait until we were done. 243 00:14:06,613 --> 00:14:11,716 This article is also poorly written, and I object to that. 244 00:14:11,718 --> 00:14:15,453 He wasn't able to just try to do anything cleanly 245 00:14:15,455 --> 00:14:18,556 without people giving him a hard time about it. 246 00:14:18,558 --> 00:14:20,258 My actual title is Cobra Commander. 247 00:14:20,260 --> 00:14:22,894 Hiss, hiss. 248 00:14:22,896 --> 00:14:24,228 Hiss. 249 00:14:24,230 --> 00:14:26,531 So that's how I need to be acknowledged, I think, further. 250 00:14:26,533 --> 00:14:28,799 I also go by faggot now. 251 00:14:28,801 --> 00:14:32,036 These use that non-pejorative fag. 252 00:14:37,844 --> 00:14:43,314 He's an ego-fag and a moral-fag and a leader-fag and just about 253 00:14:43,316 --> 00:14:47,552 everything but a fag-fag, as you know, 254 00:14:47,554 --> 00:14:51,322 leave it to the internet to have to repeat themselves. 255 00:14:51,324 --> 00:14:53,391 What happened today is certainly illegal. 256 00:14:53,393 --> 00:14:55,059 Why are you willing to show your face? 257 00:14:59,432 --> 00:15:02,466 Barrett being a named person was his own doing. 258 00:15:02,468 --> 00:15:03,834 He did not show up as Anonymous. 259 00:15:03,836 --> 00:15:06,370 He showed up as Barrett Brown. 260 00:15:06,372 --> 00:15:09,207 There's a new world being born here. 261 00:15:09,209 --> 00:15:11,943 At least, that's the perspective of the people in it. 262 00:15:11,945 --> 00:15:17,348 And I think Barrett really reflected that and gave voice 263 00:15:17,350 --> 00:15:21,586 to this emerging world view. 264 00:15:21,588 --> 00:15:23,888 Whether it's valid or not is another question. 265 00:15:37,070 --> 00:15:39,670 And we do not 266 00:15:48,448 --> 00:15:49,621 Forget. 267 00:15:58,358 --> 00:16:00,057 Sabu spoke about things in terms of this 268 00:16:00,059 --> 00:16:03,194 being a movement for revolution, and everybody 269 00:16:03,196 --> 00:16:04,729 was his comrade or his brother. 270 00:16:04,731 --> 00:16:07,298 He had kind of built himself up within Anonymous 271 00:16:07,300 --> 00:16:10,601 and had this reputation of a like, 272 00:16:10,603 --> 00:16:12,737 doesn't give a fuck freedom fighter. 273 00:16:12,739 --> 00:16:15,673 There's de facto leadership, de facto organizer. 274 00:16:15,675 --> 00:16:18,276 Someone had to have the idea and start bringing people in. 275 00:16:18,278 --> 00:16:20,511 So for a little while, they're going to listen to this guy. 276 00:16:20,513 --> 00:16:22,046 They're going to say, what are we doing here? 277 00:16:22,048 --> 00:16:22,847 Why are we doing it? 278 00:16:22,849 --> 00:16:24,181 There are two types of hackers. 279 00:16:24,183 --> 00:16:26,784 There's a ghost hacker, who constantly changes 280 00:16:26,786 --> 00:16:29,120 his identity, so nobody knows who he is 281 00:16:29,122 --> 00:16:31,789 or even how to really get ahold of him. 282 00:16:31,791 --> 00:16:35,293 And then there are people with permanent fixed identities. 283 00:16:44,170 --> 00:16:46,370 Sabu had a permanent identity. 284 00:16:46,372 --> 00:16:51,409 He made it pretty clear what his philosophy, his politics were. 285 00:16:51,411 --> 00:16:53,811 I find him to be incredibly annoying. 286 00:16:53,813 --> 00:16:56,781 He uses words like what's up, niggy. 287 00:16:56,783 --> 00:17:01,118 And like, he's a very, like to me, 288 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:03,054 I'm very annoyed by everything he says. 289 00:17:03,056 --> 00:17:06,891 Like I don't like his terms and the way he talks. 290 00:17:06,893 --> 00:17:10,795 He was the king of the hacking world, 291 00:17:10,797 --> 00:17:14,432 doing it like a "sir," in fact. 292 00:17:14,434 --> 00:17:18,035 Friends around the globe, we are LOL at security. 293 00:17:22,442 --> 00:17:25,643 LulzSec came from Anonymous, and they 294 00:17:25,645 --> 00:17:28,079 enjoyed what each other did. 295 00:17:28,081 --> 00:17:30,715 Laughing out loud at security LulzSec. 296 00:17:44,430 --> 00:17:45,930 Greetings from Anonymous. 297 00:17:45,932 --> 00:17:47,798 For the past decade, the government 298 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:51,869 has tried to take control of our internet. 299 00:17:51,871 --> 00:17:55,139 The Lulz boat was just sailing the infinite seas 300 00:17:55,141 --> 00:17:59,143 of hacking excellence, hacking the shit out of everybody. 301 00:18:24,170 --> 00:18:26,370 Topiary, is everything all right? 302 00:18:26,372 --> 00:18:28,239 Are you dead? 303 00:18:28,241 --> 00:18:29,874 Are you OK? 304 00:18:29,876 --> 00:18:31,976 Remember you tweeted my fucking phone number, said, 305 00:18:31,978 --> 00:18:34,445 -512-560-26 Here's the leader of the LulzSec. 306 00:18:34,447 --> 00:18:35,746 Call him now. 307 00:18:35,748 --> 00:18:37,181 You threw it on the fucking LulzSec Twitter? 308 00:18:37,183 --> 00:18:38,249 Barrett Brown is the leader of Lulzec! 309 00:18:38,251 --> 00:18:39,383 Give him a call now! 310 00:18:39,385 --> 00:18:41,886 I got 200 calls 311 00:18:46,626 --> 00:18:48,626 Hurry up. 312 00:18:48,628 --> 00:18:52,563 Get the sign. 313 00:18:52,565 --> 00:18:54,165 Do you have it? 314 00:18:57,537 --> 00:19:00,104 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 00:19:04,844 --> 00:19:07,378 Oh my you did it, man. 319 00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:08,512 No, I'm watching it. 320 00:19:08,514 --> 00:19:10,281 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. 322 00:19:13,019 --> 00:19:14,518 If I was working in a cubicle, I'd 323 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,287 be like, oh, what are those Lulzsec guys doing today? 324 00:19:16,289 --> 00:19:18,756 You know those "God hates fags" 325 00:19:18,758 --> 00:19:21,625 morons that protests soldiers funerals and stomp 326 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:22,927 on American flags because they've 327 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 00:19:30,136 --> 00:19:31,202 Because he can. 332 00:19:31,204 --> 00:19:33,860 We can sometimes take over the websites themselves, put messages up, 333 00:19:33,873 --> 00:19:35,039 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 340 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 349 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 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:42,306 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. 377 00:22:22,308 --> 00:22:25,709 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 00:28:38,450 --> 00:28:41,618 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.