The Hacker Wars

Anonymous

Cyber attack

A new kind of warfare

Hackers and activists

Security leaks

Computer hackers

Hackers

Hacktivists.

Anonymous has struck again, with a warning,

this is just the beginning.

Anonymous is a collective known for recent attacks

on government and corporate websites.

The internet is a powerful new medium

where just a handful of people in small groups,

just by shifting data around in the right directions,

can make big changes and big damage.

The more you said, the more frightening it was.

The Pentagon is now singling out Anonymous

as an example of the serious new cyber-threats

facing the country.

The fundamental unit here is information warfare.

We're gaining back the freedoms that the forefathers assured us

through technology, and we can't we can't allow these

freedoms to be taken away.

I will put my body on the altar of liberty again and again and again.

Information is the weapon.

And information properly understood and properly used

in an honest way is more effective than anything else

in the world.

If you've got your eye on Boeing, yeah, please go for it.

I'd like to see those fuckers go down.

Dial the code, modify the code just a bid.

Bombard the Pentagon.

You're either with us, or you're against us.

You have 15 minutes

available for this call.

Hello?

Uh.

Andrew, are you there?

It's not scary to be going to prison?

No, I never was scared to be going to prison.

There's all these cool people, and I'm

learning all these cool things.

And I'm making lifelong future friends and future business

partners, certainly.

Embarrassing people, I enjoy it.

It's viscerally fun.

He's an instigator.

The most lovable little pest

on the internet.

His ability

to make other people so angry is the talent that he has.

Almost 90% of the articles that come out for Weev, they

all start out with, he's a dick, he's an asshole.

Little Weev is going to troll the fuck out of Apple and AT&T.

How do I plan on keeping my corn bread safe in prison?

I will stab a nigger that dares

reach across my plate.

I am the Bruce Lee of regexp.

I didn't get caught.

I put my name on what I did.

I'm not here to play nice with AT&T. I'm here

to comment and criticize.

There was a URL on an AT&T web server

with a number at the end.

And if you add one to this number,

like you could have typed it in the iPad web browser over

and over again, you would see the next iPad 3G user's email address.

Here's AT&T handing out a complete target

list of their customers.

I was morally required to come forward and sort of put them

over the coals for this.

It was, like, 114,000 email addresses.

And it's quite a list.

"New York Times" CEO Janet Robinson.

White House Chief

of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

Diane Sawyer.

Not to mention

the US Army and Congress.

And it doesn't get much more high profile

than Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City.

Mayor Bloomberg was like, this isn't a big deal.

It's not like people can't find my email address.

I'm aggregating public data and using

it to criticize people whose politics I dislike.

The FBI is combing through people's emails,

grossly violating their constitutional rights.

I think I have moral superiority here.

NSA and FBI are both walking here.

And they're looking at the computers.

And they're like, oh my god, these red dots,

they're converging.

They hit a button, renh, renh.

No black SUV.

There's been black SUVs outside the past couple of days.

All the red dots are in the same room right now.

There's going to be even more later.

Magic fucking genie.

You're actually in power.

You're in charge.

The most drastic improvements that need to be made

are in the education system.

We need to give people the kind of classical Western education

that they used to have.

We need a curriculum that embraces,

you know, like, Keats and Byron.

It doesn't sound revolutionary.

It's absolutely revolutionary.

We have people in power that have explicitly

engineered our education system to make people dumb,

obedient, and uncreative.

Getting them out of fucking power and remaking it

so people can be free-thinking, well-educated, sensible,

non-reactionary people, this is a revolutionary thing.

And it's probably going to require

a whole lot of bloodshed.

Why has the FBI targeted you?

They have, by their own admission,

been surveilling me since I was 15 years old.

That was in the search warrant they

used to kick in my door in 2010.

And why?

They wanted me to it inform on hackers on the internet.

They've tried to get me to do that many times.

There is a congruence between whistleblowing and hacktivism

and hacktivists.

The similarity is speaking truth to and of power,

revealing the power structure whether it's corporate,

whether it's government, or both.

I was a senior executive at the National Security Agency.

And I served there for about six and a half years.

I blew the whistle on the secret surveillance programs

called Stellar Wind, which were the foundational surveillance

programs that ultimately Edward Snowden, 12 years later,

is now disclosing through reporters and journalists.

The government went ahead and prosecuted me

under the Espionage Act.

It was a 10 felony count indictment.

I faced 35 years in prison.

Hackers are important in the sense

that they have the capacity to expose

the secret or the inner workings of the state, which

is why they are terrified of hackers,

and they are going after them with phenomenal vengeance.

We are looking at increased transparency.

Unprecedented transparency.

He called the former head of the NSA

at home on a weekly basis for a couple of months,

trying to get him to talk to him.

Barrett was speaking in that language

of real adversarial journalism, that the purpose of journalism

is not to please those in power but to report the truth, even

when it makes those in power uncomfortable or reflects poorly on them.

29 years old, a cocky college dropout,

a self-described anarchist, Brown

proclaims he is policing wrongdoing.

He was brash, he was cocky, he was arrogant.

He was fucking full of himself.

He's awfully narcissistic.

He held court, so to speak, from his bathtub.

Fucking around on Tinychat.

The take of NBC brass was Barrett

was not a very appealing character.

He was not somebody that...

they wanted to tout as in any way

heroic or doing an admirable thing.

Barrett was somebody who was very

open about his own struggles with substance abuse.

He was on a maintenance drug, like a methadone.

He was on Suboxone.

At least he was trying to stay off hard drugs,

to be on at least a medicine.

Who are the members of Anonymous?

Who are they?

They're everyone.

I mean, you'd be amazed.

There's obviously a lot of people

who are hackers who just working in IT.

They work for major corporations in some cases.

There's journalists, writers of all kinds, people

who work at gas stations.

What is Anonymous?

It's basically the power

of an absolutely massive group of people coming together.

Anonymous are your brothers and sisters,

your sons and daughters, your parents and your friends.

Anonymous is you.

Anonymous cannot and will not stand idly while

people are being denied their basic rights and human

liberties.

Understand that something

is horribly wrong with this world.

The Tunisian government

has made itself an enemy of Anonymous.

The Egyptian government has revealed itself to be criminal.

For the good of mankind and for our own enjoyment.

To end the corruption, we must expose it.

If you

are working for a corrupt company, leak the data.