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21 Responses to “27,000 HBGary emails, as promised: AnonLeaks”

1. zoanthropic Says:
   February 13th, 2011 at 10:49 pm

   To the executives of HBGary:

   You see that speck in the corner of your eye flying away? That’s your career… it just kicked into high gear.

2. Gary Lee-Nova Says:
   February 13th, 2011 at 11:22 pm

   Thank you for the Marshall McLuhan quote. I was thinking about this very line, earlier this afternoon.

   I suppose that the parties in question have never read “War & Peace In The Global Village” and what Dr. McLuhan had to say about computers – “…computers being the LSD25 of the business world…” and how they “…will destroy all the business that they are brought to serve…” (paraphrased).

   Obviously, if clues were shoes the parties in question would all be barefoot.

   He wasn’t kidding about this stuff.

   Thank you for the postings, the links and the quotes.

   All Hail Xenu!!!

3. Luggage Says:
   February 14th, 2011 at 12:01 am

   what’s this all about then? what is hbgary? and what did they do? anti-p2p?

   i tried to read earlier articles here but i don’t understand it.

4. Ron W Says:
   February 14th, 2011 at 12:35 am

   Change is in the air. I can smell it. I for one am looking forward to watching how the laundry gets done. Everybody likes to sleep on clean sheets. The Inet must be protected at all costs. Lieberman’s KILL THE INTERNET BUTTON must have a stake driven thru its evil heart.

5. Jonathan from GWN Says:
   February 14th, 2011 at 2:01 am

   This whole saga is getting really interesting. Can’t wait to see more unraveling of what the govt., banks and cronies (i.e. security firms) have in store.

   The govt. always has one thing at its disposal, namely fear, in all its ugly forms, instilled in its people, while at the same time enriching themselves and depriving others.
   PR should be called PM (public manipulation).

   Same on Wall Street, manipulating the mass to buy stocks by using media like CNBC while they do the contrary. Well, from what I read in all the news related to
   the insecured company that anonymous hacked, internally, they are doing just the contrary to what they are telling people publicly.

   Same things with megachurches, look at the hypocrisy among politicians. They are publicly against marital affairs, while at the same time are sleeping will multiple partners privately. When getting caught, they ask for forgiveness, they are reborn christians, etc.

   Mass misinformation and mass manipulation through fear are common traits of all crooks, including govt., but this will not last.

   Looking at what is happening in Egypt where people’s power is stronger than govt. power. This is a warning to govts. Justice is around the corner for Mubarak. This will serve a lesson for other govt. that its people are fed up.

   2011 will be a turning point in history, with the US declining world dominance, a leverage of other countries, a new world order (the people) will appear to counteract govt. tyranny on its own. Let’s not forget it is the people (good ones) who are the lifeblood of society. When the blood get infected, we look for the source of the problem, and it lies at the very top, the very source people expect to be protected.

6. Anonymous Says:
   February 14th, 2011 at 4:07 am

   Luggage:

   HBGary develop malware analysis software and the like – HBGary Federal is a spin-off intended to provide services to the government.

   The nature of those services is what’s so scandalous. Since 9/11, intelligence spending has gone from ludicrous to hyper-absurd levels (combined civilian & military budget last year: $80 billion) – at the same time, the toxic ideology of privatising state functions so that public funds can be more liberally shared amongst one’s friends and former colleagues has ensured that ever more of this money is being diverted not to developing institutional capacities consistent with the threats they hyterically assure us are ever-present, but to paying private contractors. HBGary were elbowing their way amongst the other such companies to get a share of that sweet, sweet tax-dollar teet.

   The other side of that story is this: while government agencies are constrained by regulatory guidelines (troublesome trivialities like respecting human rights, such as those to privacy and due process), corporate actors are not. Where a federal body would require a court order, idiots like Aaron Barr can charge right in, collect what they can, sell it to the government and be subject only to civil remedies. And the emails show, Barr was not alone in seeing himself as above the law. The mentality appears prevalent, and is made all the more odious by their unconcealed glee at the potential profits.

   The effect is, both government and corporations get what they want, and citizens have their rights routed around, all at the low, low price of any semblence of the rule of law. Oh, and $80billion a year.

   Fun stuff, huh?

   Wonder when the media at large will realise they can’t ignore this any longer.

7. Anonymous Says:
   February 14th, 2011 at 4:13 am

   From the very last email send by IT @ hbgary before the shit hit the fan…

   ‘did you open something running on high port?’

   THAT will go down in history as one of the great lines of hacker lulz!

   hahahahahahahhahahahhahahhahahhahahhahahahahhhahhahahahhahahahhahahhah

8. Anonymous Says:
   February 14th, 2011 at 6:55 am

   I don’t mean to be paranoid, but is it safe to visit the main Anon site and the mirrors? Would a regular visitor be at risk of picking up malware planted by the government or HBGary? I wouldn’t put it past them to do something to deter the public from viewing the evidence and learning the truth.

9. Jon Says:
   February 14th, 2011 at 8:42 am

   Hi all:

   I deleted a troll post and with it, a couple of responses to it. Apologies to the responders, but don’t feed the trolls.

   Cheers!

10. Anonymous Says:
    February 14th, 2011 at 9:01 am

    is it safe to visit HBGary ? Lol, as i read they are the true underminers not the “hackers”. You should be a bit safer in a free world then in one where you are lied in the face day by day.

11. Luggage Says:
    February 14th, 2011 at 1:09 pm

    @anonymous

    thanks but i still don’t understand what you’re talking about.

    what actually happened? you didn’t say, and i’ve read a bunch
    of other articles here and none of them say what actually happened.

    what is the scandal besides them wanting money?

12. the_PATH Says:
    February 14th, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    don’t worry your pretty head about it, Luggage.

13. Anonymous Says:
    February 14th, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    @ Luggage

    Just WOW!!!

    I hope yer trollin’

    Nobody can honestly be THAT stoopid!

    Considering the fact that I’ve seen the same screen-name posting “duh” questions on at least 9 other sites that I’ve visited today alone, begs the question…
    CAN YOU READ?

14. Luggage Says:
    February 14th, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    I don’t troll! And I’m sure I’ve never been to the pron sites you go to.

    I’ve read many of the articles here about this but I haven’t found one that says
    what actually happened.

    Can YOU READ?

15. LeWhoppare Says:
    February 14th, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Anonymous is unquestionably in control. There is nothing sweeter then watching crappy “companies” with aspirations of sucking tax money get their asses handed to them. Thank you for fighting the good fight. And this too: “ROCK OUT with your COCK OUT!”

16. Anonymous Says:
    February 15th, 2011 at 12:19 am

    @Luggage

    What is happening is that dissent is being strangled through extra-legal means.

    The circumstances which brought this particular instance to a head have been well related elsewhere (ars technica, the tech herald and crowdleaks have done excellent work), but in brief, Aaron Barr decided to drum up business by ‘infiltrating’ the public IRC servers of AnonOps, collecting data from there and from various Facebook groups (in violation of their terms of service), ‘analysing’ that data until he convinced himself he had traced the ‘real’ identities of the ‘senior leadership’, and then announcing his ‘accomplishments’ to the media. This was in preparation for a talk at a conference on internet security, and he has publicly insisted that his research was only ever about highlighting the risks posed by social media. His emails show, however, that he was making active efforts to bring his worthless findings to the attention of numerous government agencies, and that he had received a considerable amount of interest.

    Barr, and those he was working with, including Greg Hoglund and Matthew Steckman of Palantir, show that they are quite conscious that they are going beyond what government investigators who are ‘unable to get out of their own way’ are permitted to do by law. Without being answerable to any other authority, without having to justify themselves to a judge, these sociopaths take it upon themselves to invade the privacy of citizens and collect data which the government (or corporate clients) want, but are unable to legally obtain on their own.

    The reason the government are unable to do so on their own, is because dissent is not yet a crime. With the increasing reliance on unaccountable private actors to harvest and analyse data, and even to initiate blatantly illegal attacks on both digital infrastructure and personal reputations, that hardly seems to matter.

17. Anonymous Says:
    February 15th, 2011 at 9:53 am

    The torrent for the new Hoglund emails is stalled at 85.4%. Has anyone been able to get the full thing? IF so for gods sake seed!

18. Luggage Says:
    February 15th, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    @anonymous

    Thank you very much for a concise briefing on this!

    But it also proves one thing: that no one should ever use twitter, facebook or any other so-called social network website. And if a person is stupid enough to use them they should never post any true information about themself.

    I don’t mean that Anonymous (the NON-group) posted any true info about itself (I don’t know because I never go near facebook or twitter, et al) but I’m assuming that HBG used some technical method of finding out IP addresses and names associated with them.

    IRC (something else I don’t use because I don’t do chats) probably has an easier way to troll for IP addresses, but again, I wouldn’t know since I’m not interested in chats.

    Anyway, thanks again for the explanation, and good luck with your endeavors.

19. Luggage Says:
    February 15th, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    BTW, I don’t condone or approve of what HBG did. It’s wrong and hopefully illegal and I hope they burn in hell.

20. Alda Says:
    February 16th, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    Okay, which one is the correct site? This one: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/48930? or This one: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/48927 – Are they the same? Regardless, I am still unable to view the links to the emails.

    And, by the way Anonymous, I want to Thank ALL of you for the great work you are doing, and for the latest leaks in reference to how these large Private Security firms are working Hand in Glove with Corporations and/or the US Government think, and operate, to include the crusade to target, discredit, smear, and destroy.

    There are many victim/s, ordinary solo citizens who have come forward to the proper authorities over the years, complaining about being TARGETED, by the same Standard Operating Procedures the Team Themis Power Point Presentation listed, and most – much, much more – but were denied protection, a criminal investigation, and/or legal council but simply labeled. At some point, your people should start researching: Organized Stalking, Cause Stalking, Gang Stalking, Community Based Bullying and Electronic Harassment. Then you will find how these Hand in Glove entities were able to recruit, train, expand, and experiment with cutting edge technologies, as some One Stop Shop Target Practice, while leaving the lives of TARGETED victim/s destroyed;

    Just to let you know these TEAMS harassed some of these SOLO TARGET/S to DEATH –

    What better way to TARGET PRACTICE – then to abuse and use NOBODIES – WHO WOULD EVER BELIEVE THEM if they CAME FORWARD?

    Scapegoated and Sacrificed – for WHAT?

21. Jon Says:
    February 16th, 2011 at 2:55 pm

    @ Alda: The torrents work.

    Cheers!

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