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Also, his coder is fun. :D Taco!!!
First off, disclaimer: We sell HBGary's products in the UK, I know Greg and Penny personally, as well as Jussi (who runs rootkit.com but as far as I'm aware does not work for HBGary). I'm not claiming to speak for anyone or company, just for myself on a purely personal level.
After looking into this, what happened is that HBGary invested in 15% of HBGary Federal, a company set up to do work HBGary didn't want to do. Now presumably (from TFA) they were looking at selling this off.
I don't know Aaron, but it sounds to me like he's a bit of a character at least (I'll leave it to others to resort to namecalling) and completely misunderstood what Anonymous are and how they work - FWIW we investigated Anonymous' years ago for some clients who'd been DDOSed and concluded that the simple solution is (to paraphrase Greg's irc comment) not to poke the wasps nest.
Penny, Greg and HBGary in general are in a bit of a tough situation now because of Aaron's actions and appear to have no ability to impose anything on HBGary Federal. This should serve as a warning to others that if you're going to use the name elsewhere, you better have a way of enforcing unforseen issues that may arise.
The sad thing about all of this is that Penny and Greg are really great guys, and HBGary is a good company with some insanely great technology. I'm sure they'll pull through, but I imagine there will be collateral damage for them resulting from this for some time to come.
Isn't anonymous less an organized group with leaders and more a bunch of people who hang out and occasionally someone says "hey, it would be cool if we all did " and whoever is listening joins in?
Power law still applies. Most likely 90% of serious action is done by the same 0.1% contributors (same as it is on HN or reddit or anywhere else). It may be a real difference if the 0.1% can be easily replaced, Stand Alone Complex style. Say they're all arrested one day, and a month after something happens (Julian Assange is extradited, there's a revolution in Iran, whatever piques Anonymous' interest). There's a goo…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Power law still applies. Most likely 90% of serious action is done by the same 0.1% contributors (same as it is on HN or reddit or anywhere else). It may be a real difference if the 0.1% can be easily replaced, Stand Alone Complex style. Say they're all arrested one day, and a month after something happens (Julian Assange is extradited, there's a revolution in Iran, whatever piques Anonymous' interest). There's a goo…
Implying that the 0.1% have never been caught?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Power law still applies. Most likely 90% of serious action is done by the same 0.1% contributors (same as it is on HN or reddit or anywhere else). It may be a real difference if the 0.1% can be easily replaced, Stand Alone Complex style. Say they're all arrested one day, and a month after something happens (Julian Assange is extradited, there's a revolution in Iran, whatever piques Anonymous' interest). There's a goo…
If we go with the fact that Anonymous is infact a true distributed environment, then the replacement mechanism will be very easy. I think Anonymous is a kind of humanized group-comm architecture sans a coordinator.
There is a unique feature though - the anonymity. This could really make a difference if things get serious.
I can't believe this guy has a job in a security company doing work for the federal government. I'm getting a strong vibe that he's schizophrenic. I've known an unmedicated schizophrenic, and this is the way they talked and acted. Self-aggrandizing, convinced they have comprehended great secrets based on little to no data (schizophrenics often believe that have "other ways of knowing" or extremely heightened intuitio…
Are you describing a schizophrenic or a newbie entrepreneur? ;)
I can't believe this guy has a job in a security company doing work for the federal government. I'm getting a strong vibe that he's schizophrenic. I've known an unmedicated schizophrenic, and this is the way they talked and acted. Self-aggrandizing, convinced they have comprehended great secrets based on little to no data (schizophrenics often believe that have "other ways of knowing" or extremely heightened intuitio…
I'm not sure that schizophrenia is any better an explanation than straightforward arrogance. Assuming that the leaks of his work are reasonably accurate I'd be concerned if the government actually started using his research to arrest people though. I'm not sure that Barrs interest in finding patterns in publicly available information in order to sell his intelligence is any different to advertising analysts doing the…
This guy is clearly a dangerous moron. This kinda makes me feel better for being so cold about this whole affair in the other thread. The terrifying thing is that there are still people in government who believe sentences like "specific techniques that can be used to target, collect, and exploit targets with laser focus and with 100 percent success" through social media. I mean, who claims one hundred percent success…
I can't believe this guy has a job in a security company doing work for the federal government. I'm getting a strong vibe that he's schizophrenic. I've known an unmedicated schizophrenic, and this is the way they talked and acted. Self-aggrandizing, convinced they have comprehended great secrets based on little to no data (schizophrenics often believe that have "other ways of knowing" or extremely heightened intuitio…
Oh man, I'm not sure if this is funnier if you meant it, or not...
> in a just world, this nutjob would end up in prison.
Yup. I'm interested to see what happens in the weeks ahead. I really doubt that anything bad (other than getting his SSN posted to Twitter...) will actually happen to him, though.
I can't believe this guy has a job in a security company doing work for the federal government. I'm getting a strong vibe that he's schizophrenic. I've known an unmedicated schizophrenic, and this is the way they talked and acted. Self-aggrandizing, convinced they have comprehended great secrets based on little to no data (schizophrenics often believe that have "other ways of knowing" or extremely heightened intuitio…
HBGary's proposed plan of attack against Wikileaks http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-in...