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Subject:    [ISN] How Antisec Died
From:       InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date:       2013-11-25 7:15:17
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By Quinn Norton
Medium.com
November 22, 2013

Jeremy Hammond, Sabu, and the Intelligence-Industrial Complex

First, an introduction: I write about hackers, and for the past few years 
that has meant I write about Anonymous. At the time of the Stratfor hack I 
was working for Wired covering Anonymous — notably the antics of Antisec 
anons much of the time. I had missed the Lulzsec period, which I spent 
under federal investigation myself. From February to July of that year I 
stayed away from the hacker world, unsure if my computer would be seized 
and unwilling to draw my sources into a possible fishing expedition.

By the winter of 2011, I was making up for lost time. I'd become deeply 
involved with the day to day lives of active anons working on all sorts of 
actions, from Occupy support to street protests. And of course, I talked 
with members of Antisec on a daily basis. In accordance with my rules for 
coverage, no communication with anyone in Anonymous was ever logged unless 
it was an on-the-record interview permitted for printing. Even then, my 
notes didn't preserve handles, the format of communication, or even urls 
of places we'd communicated. I never knew who anyone was in real life, and 
made it publicly clear that I would never work with any anon who revealed 
their identity to me.

This was in part because I didn't want my work to become involved in any 
court cases, but also because for the nature of my coverage, I didn't 
believe, and still don't, that the legal identity of individuals tells us 
much about the collective I was writing about.

As a result, much of the story I have to tell of what really happened to 
Antisec comes of years-old memories. There are almost no notes anywhere to 
support the conversations I will claim to have had with people I can no 
longer find and never knew in anything like real life. Some of the details 
may have faded from memory. But the story has not.

[...]



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