tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84215016507376523572024-03-19T03:53:30.209-07:00Jay LeidermanJay Leiderman is a criminal defense attorney in Ventura, California. He co-authored the first ever book on the legal defense of California medical marijuana crimes and has been called the “Hacktivist’s Advocate” for his work defending those accused of computer crimes. He has been recognized and won awards for going above and beyond to represent clients accused of all sorts of crimes. Jay frequently lectures around the state and nation on various criminal defense topics. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10915842468615906786noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421501650737652357.post-65690909272163623812020-08-15T15:54:00.000-07:002014-08-18T18:56:47.346-07:00Certified Criminal Law Specialist Jay Leiderman Can Help You If You Have Been Arrested or Charged With A Crime<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6886857674656766797" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 546px;">
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Jay Leiderman is a criminal defense lawyer based in Ventura, California. Jay was certified as a criminal law specialist by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. The Atlantic Magazine called Leiderman the “Hacktivist’s Advocate” for his work defending hacker-activists accused of computer crimes, or so-called (“Hacktivism”) especially people associated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous.</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">Leiderman co-authored a book on the legal defense of California medical marijuana crimes, which was published by NORML, the National Organization For the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He is also a founding member of the Whistleblower’s Defense League, “formed to combat what they describe as the </strong><br />
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FBI and Justice Department’s use of harassment and over-prosecution to chill and silence those who engage in journalism, Internet activism or dissent.” Leiderman frequently comments in diverse areas of the media about criminal and social justice issues. He also lectures around the state and nation on various criminal defense topics.</strong><br />
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">From: On the Defense of Criminals, an essay by Jay Leiderman <a href="http://jayleiderman.blogspot.com/2013/01/on-defense-of-criminals-essay-by-jay.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://jayleiderman.blogspot.com/2013/01/on-defense-of-criminals-essay-by-jay.html</a></strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">The link below is a profile of Jay Leiderman done by the Atlantic Weekly Magazine with a quote from the piece: “We have an opportunity here to make the courts, as these cases wind their way up, understand privacy issues, emerging tech issues, against the backdrop of civil rights and through the prism of free information.”</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">From: Hacktivist’s Advocate: Meet the Lawyer Who Defends Anonymous <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/hacktivists-advocate-meet-the-lawyer-who-defends-anonymous/263202/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/hacktivists-advocate-meet-the-lawyer-who-defends-anonymous/263202/</a></strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">This is a profile of Jay Leiderman done by the Ventura County Star: Ventura attorney represents high-profile hackers in a red-hot area of the law</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">‘Hackers being prosecuted under the CFAA don’t just need digital experts; they need good defense against a law vague enough to encompass most anything <a href="http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/lawyers_hacker_call_part_2.php?page=all" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/lawyers_hacker_call_part_2.php?page=all</a></strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">“Investigators like to wave around the word ‘gang.’ They use it to strike fear in the heart of the community. It tends to also involve a lot of puffery and allegations that maybe perhaps aren’t 100 percent solid,” Leiderman said.</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">From: Police say Mexican Mafia prison gang led crime ring in Ventura County <a href="http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/nov/27/one-man-led-large-prison-crime-ring-in-ventura/?print=1" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/nov/27/one-man-led-large-prison-crime-ring-in-ventura/?print=1</a></strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">From: Federal agents accused of unwarranted search through journalist’s computer <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/matthew-keys-investigation-hacker-computer-search" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/29/matthew-keys-investigation-hacker-computer-search</a></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">There is a strong argument to make, as </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/paypal-wikileaks-protesters-ddos-free-speech" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jay Leiderman demonstrated in <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Guardian </em>in the context of the Paypal 14 hacktivist persecution</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">, that the “denial of service” tactics used by hacktivists result in (at most) trivial damage (far less than the cyber-warfare tactics </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/23/anonymous-trial-wikileaks-internet-freedom" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cc0000; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">favored by the US and UK</a><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">) and are far more akin to the type of political protest protected by the First Amendment.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><b><a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/</span></a></b></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS8NInzc-KD52mly0OOb_WaFl_qYMBaOVkmJvtaPJf-mBTj2BOqqDde3yk68Xa3yKZkJg63bEu6iGwIKUq_l9cXtYrds6HP_YSfSnCT3oiCqDML_gL-zaYD2UCPYvBEON8fnnjRhL4CsY/s1600/1+Desk+Artistic.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS8NInzc-KD52mly0OOb_WaFl_qYMBaOVkmJvtaPJf-mBTj2BOqqDde3yk68Xa3yKZkJg63bEu6iGwIKUq_l9cXtYrds6HP_YSfSnCT3oiCqDML_gL-zaYD2UCPYvBEON8fnnjRhL4CsY/s1600/1+Desk+Artistic.png" height="215" width="320" /></a><strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">“The days of ‘Let’s haul this kid in front of the judge, scare him and send him home with a warning’ are long since gone,” says attorney Jay Leiderman. “Prosecutorial discretion is a great thing if it’s exercised, but it doesn’t happen in any meaningful way these days, because prosecutions are so politicized.”</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">From: Is former Sacramento media employee Matthew Keys a victim of overzealous, misguided cybercrime prosecution?</strong></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2koQGrjeqKAMflpLzo8UUeTX22Cq4ZEKYLU7rYD_aZ1dE8fDVnnNdqxQpBoDEN2F9WaLo3fS1JIyNtXGwgaajVCo6_E0KNFTHhN4clmT3tEAJHXQ1kEzH3_pUzSi_tQz8za8XwC1wk8A/s1600/april.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2koQGrjeqKAMflpLzo8UUeTX22Cq4ZEKYLU7rYD_aZ1dE8fDVnnNdqxQpBoDEN2F9WaLo3fS1JIyNtXGwgaajVCo6_E0KNFTHhN4clmT3tEAJHXQ1kEzH3_pUzSi_tQz8za8XwC1wk8A/s1600/april.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;"><b>"There's no such thing as a DDoS 'attack'," Leiderman said. "A DDoS is a protest, it's a digital sit it. It is no different than physically occupying a space. It's not a crime, it's speech."</b></span></span><br />
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">“He is a good person. He did a bad thing,” Leiderman told the judge.</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">From: Santa Paula man gets probation for drunken-driving crash that killed fellow officer</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">From: Anon on the run: How Commander X jumped bail and fled to Canada</strong></div>
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<strong style="font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.7;">From: A speech at a benefit for arrested activists</strong></div>
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The worst passwords<br />
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Here’s the list of the worst passwords. If you recognize your password on it, it’s time to rethink your password security and change your login:<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;">123456 (Unchanged)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">password (Unchanged)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">12345678 (Up 1)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">qwerty (Up 1)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">12345 (Down 2)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">123456789 (Unchanged)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Football (Up 3)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1234 (Down 1)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1234567 (Up 2)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">baseball (Down 2)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">welcome (New)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1234567890 (New)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">abc123 (Up 1)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">111111 (Up 1)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">1qaz2wsx (New)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">dragon (Down 7)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">master(Up 2)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">monkey (Down 6)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">letmein (Down 6)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">login (New)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">princess (New)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">qwertyuiop (New)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">solo (New)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">passw0rd (New)</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">starwars (New)</li>
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… Three months later, Doyon’s pro-bono lawyer, Jay Leiderman, was in a federal court in San Jose. Leiderman had not heard from Doyon in a couple of weeks. “I’m inquiring as to whether there’s a reason for that,” the judge said. Leiderman had no answer. Doyon was absent from another hearing two weeks later. The prosecutor stated the obvious: “It appears as though the defendant has fled.”</div>
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What Anonymous is Doing In Ferguson</h2>
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On Aug. 12, Ferguson City Hall’s website went black, its phone lines died and officials had to communicate by text, according to the <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/how-computer-hackers-changed-the-ferguson-protests/article_d81a1da4-ae04-5261-9064-e4c255111c94.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="s1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">St. Louis</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Dispatch</i></span></a> and the New York<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/us/ferguson-case-roils-collective-called-anonymous.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="s3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Times</i></span></a>. Self-identified members of the amorphous, hard-to-define hacker community <a href="http://pastebin.com/KpmJKU8D" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Anonymous</a> had struck again, according to the papers, this time in response to the shooting of a black teenager, Michael Brown, by a white police officer. A Twitter account allegedly associated with Anonymous—@TheAnonMessage—threatened Jon Belmar, the St. Louis County police chief, with publicly releasing his daughter’s information “in one hour” unless he released the name of the officer who killed Brown. While Belmar didn’t give in, and @TheAnonMessage dropped the ultimatum, the account and other self-identified Anonymous members would post two days later the home address, social security number and phone number of Belmar, telling him to “run, Jon, run.” While that practice, known as “doxing,” is a common Anonymous cyber attack, @TheAnonMessage would go on to wrongly accuse a citizen of killing Brown. Twitter subsequently shut down the @TheAnonMessage without much uproar from the Anonymous community, which prides itself on fighting censorship.</div>
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Anonymous’ “main demand” is “justice” for Michael Brown and his family, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/hacktivists-advocate-meet-the-lawyer-who-defends-anonymous/263202/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Leiderman</a> says. They can grab the attention of the Ferguson police and “let them know that they’re serious,” he says. Operation Ferguson falls in line with previous Anonymous efforts to unmask alleged perpetrators, such as the 2012 Operation Red Roll, which released private information about people allegedly complicit in the rape of a 16 year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio.</div>
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The “whole reason why” Anonymous got involved was a local rap artist—Tef Po—who called out for help on Twitter, according to Coleman, and the affiliated members responded. A day after the Brown shooting, Anonymous, through Operation Ferguson, released a <a href="http://pastebin.com/KpmJKU8D" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">statement</a> asking Congress to pass a bill to set “strict national standards for police conduct.” It also warned the Ferguson government and police department of cyber counterattacks if the protesters were abused, harassed or otherwise harmed.</div>
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“If you attack the protesters, we will attack every server and computer you have,” wrote the Operation Ferguson <a href="http://pastebin.com/KpmJKU8D" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">author</a>. “We will dox [document trace] and release the personal information on every single member of the Ferguson Police Department, as well as any other jurisdiction that participates in the abuse. We will seize all your databases and e-mail spools and dump them on the Internet. This is your only warning.”</div>
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Coleman says that there isn’t unanimous support within the hacker community nor Anonymous on shutting down websites. “It’s a big contentious debate between hackers who have a purist, free speech view, and others who have a more contextual one,” says Coleman. “There’s also a debate within Anonymous itself where a lot of hackers who really do the work of intrusion are not fans of doxing for two reasons: A) it’s technically uninteresting and B) sometimes they’re actually trying to gain access to those sites to hack them.”</div>
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“Really the main point is to gain media attention,” she says. “That’s kind of why that’s done more than anything else.”</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">How many Anonymous members are involved in Ferguson?</span></div>
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Anonymous is by definition a secretive group, one without leaders, an agenda or a set list of members. “No one has any idea” how many people are involved in Operation Ferguson, according to Leiderman, who called Anonymous a “nebulous and decentralized collective.”</div>
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“It’s impossible to say who is and who isn’t a member of Anonymous,” says Leiderman. “There is now way to disprove it.”</div>
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But Coleman says you can see which causes are more popular than others.</div>
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After the arrest of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange in 2010, and Anonymous disrupted the websites of MasterCard, Visa and Paypal for declining to serve WikiLeaks, around 7,000 people logged onto the Anonymous chat channel and downloaded hacking tools, according to Coleman. That ad hoc association was “probably the largest ever,” according to Coleman, and by her estimates, much more than the current Operation in Ferguson. (Anonymous <a href="http://pastebin.com/Juxb5M26" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">distanced itself</a> from Assange in October 2012 after he asked supporters to pay money for access to documents.) The Ferguson channel is used by up to 160 people, Coleman says, although “thousands and thousands” are “within the orbit” supporting the cause through Twitter.</div>
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“It is really hard to tell in terms of the numbers,” says Coleman. “You do get a sense of which ones are bigger and smaller and I would probably put this in the definitely not small, [but] definitely not as big as something like WikiLeaks. Probably in between.”</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">How is the <a href="http://www.cigionline.org/publications/2013/9/anonymous-context-politics-and-power-behind-mask" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Anonymous</a> community dealing with the member who misidentified the officer who shot Michael Brown?</span></div>
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The @TheAnonMessage account was not a very well respected one within the Anonymous community, according to Coleman and Leiderman, despite the fact that it had been around for awhile.</div>
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“People had suspicions but because he was being really active and contributing a lot to the operation,” says Coleman. “They kind of put their skepticism aside in some ways until it was too late…This is something that in some ways is perennially a problem and just has to do with the kind of architecture of Anonymous where you can’t really control what people are doing. There are norms and rules and ethics that definitely push behavior towards certain areas and not others, but by no means [are they] fool proof.”</div>
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After Twitter took down the account, an <a href="http://crypt0nymous.tumblr.com/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Anonymous member</a>wrote a post to show a detailed tick-tock “that this was the work of an Anon who was acting against the advice of others.” Other Twitter accounts associated with the group, like <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFerguson/status/499953836472037377" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Operation Ferguson</a>’s <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFerguson/status/499947162965274625" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(24, 12, 12, 0.247059); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c97d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">account</a>, declined to name the Brown shooter as it looked for additional sources.</div>
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Coleman says that with the exception of a few cases, Anonymous has “generally been correct” in uncovering the right information. She calls @TheAnonMessage a “loose cannon” that had earned “skepticism” because of erratic actions in the past. Coleman says there “was no outcry” when Twitter shut down @TheAnonMessage despite Anonymous being “so famous for hating censorship.”</div>
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“Anonymous attracts people who are willing to push the envelope,” she says. “But there is always a hope that people who are doing it are getting the right names and information… I think that there was this expectation that people are doing that work carefully so when they’re not, people in Anonymous get really pissed off.”</div>
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When asked if Anonymous’ reputation was hurt after @TheAnonMessage released inaccurate information, Leiderman first blamed the media for going with an untrusted source before saying that Anonymous usually does a better job of establishing a correct verdict.</div>
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“Really you can’t pin that all on Anonymous,” he says. “The media that ran with it [failed] to confirm or deny the veracity of the statement… If the older and larger accounts run with something, it usually has a better chance of being more accurate.”</div>
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“You really want to see more consensus in the collective before you run with something like that,” he adds. “People that identify with Anonymous are really good at asking ‘Are you sure?’, ‘How do you know?’ ‘Can you share the data with us in a secure way?’…and I’m not sure that happened in this case.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Please see the press release below and online here <<a href="https://www.nlg.org/news/releases/nlg-strongly-objects-oppressive-and-discriminatory-law-enforcement-tactics-ferguson-mo">https://www.nlg.org/news/releases/nlg-strongly-objects-oppressive-and-discriminatory-law-enforcement-tactics-ferguson-mo</a>>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To support the NLG's efforts in Missouri, please visit
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Contact: Tasha Moro, Communications Coordinator
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">*National Lawyers Guild Strongly Objects to Oppressive
and Discriminatory Law Enforcement Tactics in Ferguson, Mo. * *NLG Members
Offering Legal Support to Ferguson Protesters*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">NEW YORK -- The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is on the
ground providing legal support to Ferguson, Missouri residents protesting in
the wake of last week’s fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by white
police officer Darren Wilson. Since then, community protests and neighborhood
demonstrations have been violently confronted by the Ferguson Police
Department, armed with military-grade weaponry. Yesterday morning, Governor Jay
Nixon deployed the Missouri National Guard to supplement St. Louis County
police, while the state of emergency he announced on Saturday remains in
effect. In light of the police brutality aimed at protesters thus far, the NLG
is deeply concerned about the use of the National Guard for civilian police
duties, normally reserved for natural disasters or insurrection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In response to needs of local demonstrators and
organizers, the NLG is mobilizing a range of legal support such as criminal
defense, jail support, injunctive relief, and Legal Observers – NLG-trained
volunteers who protect the rights of protesters by monitoring and documenting
police activity at demonstrations. The NLG’s presence in Ferguson includes
legal workers and lawyers from the St. Louis area, as well as others from
Chicago, Detroit, and New York in collaboration with local St. Louis and
Ferguson organizers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Interim NLG Executive Director Dan Gregor, currently in
Ferguson helping with legal support, said, “Nobody should have assault weapons
leveled at their chests by police or tear gas rounds fired at them for
exercising free speech and petitioning government for a redress of serious
grievances. This is a community expressing legitimate anger at not just the
murder of one unarmed black teen a week ago, but also the countless young men
of color brutalized every day across the country by the police, and now, the
military.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Guild recognizes that the ongoing events in Ferguson
reflect a dynamic and complex struggle around issues including race, class,
state repression, and free speech. The NLG urges Gov. Nixon and law enforcement
to respect the protesters’ right to free speech and assembly, while treating
them with the dignity they deserve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>What duty does the DA have to review police officer personnel files for Brady (373 US 83) material? The C/A says that the DA must conduct such a review. If the DA finds Brady material, the DA must make a Pitchess motion in order to obtain a court order disclosing that material to the defense.</b></span></div>
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<b>The trial of former KTXL Fox40 Web producer</b> Matthew Keys in Sacramento federal court appears to be approaching its anticlimax.<br />
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The 27-year-old blogger and journalist is accused of helping hackers break into the Los Angeles Times website, where they changed the headline of a story. Keys has even confessed to the substance of the crime, though it hardly qualifies as misdemeanor vandalism. So why make a federal case out of it? Couldn’t Department of Justice resources be better directed elsewhere?<br />
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It’s a question of priorities, according to<i>Surviving Cyberwar</i> author Richard Stiennon. “For those in justice, your career path is to get a whole bunch of successful prosecutions and get noticed,” Stiennon says. “So you’re going to go after the low-hanging fruit.”<br />
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Lately, prosecutors have been taking advantage of the wide latitude afforded them by the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to press cases involving “network security.” And they press hard.<br />
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Last January, Internet entrepreneur and activist Aaron Swartz killed himself while under felony prosecution for downloading academic journals. Swartz, who helped create the crowdsourced entertainment site Reddit, was facing 50 years and $1 million in fines.<br />
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“The days of ’Let’s haul this kid in front of the judge, scare him and send him home with a warning’ are long since gone,” says attorney Jay Leiderman, who represents Keys. “Prosecutorial discretion is a great thing if it’s exercised, but it doesn’t happen in any meaningful way these days, because prosecutions are so politicized.”<br />
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That’s the crux of the problem for Keys, the former Reuters social-media editor and possessor of 23,000 Twitter followers. In December 2010, he crossed paths with Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. Sabu, the eventual leader of AntiSec, a more mischievous offshoot of hacktivist group Anonymous. Keys passed them the credentials he once used to log into KTXL’s computers, which were linked to the Tribune Company network.<br />
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Keys left KTXL two months earlier, and he’s since expressed surprise that the credentials still worked. An AntiSec member used them to access the L.A. Times website and change a story headline from “Pressure Builds in House to Pass Tax-cut Package” to “Pressure Builds in House to Elect CHIPPY 1337,” a reference to another hacker group. Within 30 minutes, the hacker was frozen out and the headline corrected.<br />
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Keys might have expected, at worse, a stiff warning and small fine. But he literally messed with the wrong guy. Sabu had been an FBI informant since his arrest in June 2011, right around the time he started AntiSec.<br />
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For months, Monsegur encouraged his followers to commit cybercrime while under the FBI’s control. He was the “honeypot” attracting would-be perps into an operation seemingly designed to intimidate future hackers and anyone who might associate with them, like Keys.<br />
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“Part of this is [the feds’] broader push to send a message that anything and everything is going to go punished that appears to suggest that the control of the Internet is up for grabs,” says Hanni Fakhoury an attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. “It is not a coincidence that this was linked to behavior undertaken in the name Anonymous.”<br />
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It wasn’t always like this. Keys and Swartz were charged under CFAA, a 28-year-old law whose contours, like the shore, have worn away with time, yielding to much wider application.<br />
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The CFAA was conceived in the wake of the Matthew Broderick movie <i>WarGames</i>, about a hacker who inadvertently almost starts a nuclear war. The original drafters focused narrowly on government computers and the intent of the intrusion.<br />
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But changes in the law and vague wording have turned “unauthorized access” to a computer into a prosecutorial blank check.<br />
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Eleven years ago, nearby Fiddletown resident Bret McDanel was jailed under the CFAA for a crime the government later admitted he hadn’t really committed.<br />
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McDanel noticed a security flaw in his firm Tornado Development’s Web-based communications software. He told his supervisors, but his concerns went unaddressed. After leaving their employ, he sent an email to all the software’s users informing them of the issue. The Amador County resident was charged with undermining the “integrity of a computer system.”<br />
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By the time the feds admitted the law wasn’t meant to protect a software company’s reputation, he had already served his 16-month sentence. He’d lost his fiancée and was living with his parents, while his former employer had gone out of business. But McDanel can surely tell you which way the railroad runs.<br />
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As Keys has discovered, the feds lean hard and wear you down. He faces up to $750,000 in fines and 25 years in prison.<br />
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Swartz initially faced only 35 years, but four months before his death (20 months after his initial arrest), they added nine more felony counts, raising his jeopardy to 50 years. The idea, critics say, was to squeeze a plea out of him; Swartz found a different way out.<br />
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Swartz’s act of martyrdom generated a firestorm of protest. It caught the attention of Bay Area Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, who sponsored (still-stalled) legislation known as Aaron’s Law to change some CFAA provisions.<br />
“In talking to Aaron’s family and others who were involved in his situation, it was a real eye-opener to what happens in the criminal-justice system,” says Lofgren. “What they felt was very abusive was this sort of thing where you more or less try to extort concessions through the use of overprosecution.”<br />
Keys’ odyssey appears to be drawing to its close, for better or worse. His last court appearance, on April 2, was accompanied by news that the case had gone to “reverse proffer.” This involves the prosecution sharing their case with the defense, generally with an eye toward an agreement.<br />
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Nearly all those swept up in the feds’ Anonymous-related enforcement actions have been processed. The sole remaining exceptions are Keys and cooperating ringleader Monsegur. In January, Monsegur’s sentencing was delayed for a third time, so it’s not difficult to believe he’s the bow on the whole operation.<br />
Keys is certainly guilty of something, but probably not a felony. In that respect, he’s perhaps a victim of cybercrime’s intrigue and a prosecutor’s desire to leverage that publicity.<br />
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“Any case that has the word ’cyber’ in it brings headlines, because it’s interesting. There’s a degree to which careers are made this way,” says Leiderman. “’Cyber prosecutor blah-blah-blah.’ Nobody reads the ’blah-blah-blah.’ They just go, ’They caught a cybercriminal. Fantastic.’”<br />
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Lofgren continues to push changes in the law to make it less prone to abuse. Unfortunately, there’s precious little to be done about overzealous prosecutors.<br />
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“You really can’t impose good judgment legislatively,” Lofgren says, “but we do need to have better oversight over the Department of Justice.”<br />
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On Monday, US Attorney Sarah Saldaña filed a <a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/files/BB_superseding2.pdf" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;">superseding indictment</a> in the government’s case against Barrett Brown.</div>
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“It’s conceivable,” attorney Jay Leiderman told me yesterday, that the prosecution, which <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1053791-17717995604.html" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;">dismissed 11 of Brown’s charges</a> last month, “is about to reach a plea deal with Barrett.”</div>
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It appears now, that a plea deal <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/04/barrett-brown-plea-agreement/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;">has been reached</a>. After bringing multiple cases against Brown, three of which he had pleaded "not guilty" to, federal prosecutors have salvaged a minute victory over Brown. Originally, they sought to put him behind bars for 105 years. The prosecutors were granted a seal on the plea agreement by the court.</div>
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Of the two counts pleaded to in the indictment, one, of “<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;">Accessory After the Fact</a>,” links Brown to Jeremy Hammond a/k/a “o,” and the 2011 Stratfor hack. <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1502" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;">The other</a>claims that Brown, having been “aided and abetted by another person,” (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/09/barrett-brown-anonymous-mother-probation" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;">his mother</a>), obstructed the execution of a search warrant on March 6, 2012, the day after Hammond’s arrest.</div>
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Leiderman, who was driving while we spoke, had me read the three-page indictment to him. If Brown pleaded to the two counts, we calculated together that he would face a maximum punishment of 4.5 years: the accessory charge carries a 2.5 year punishment, and the second count carries two maximum punishments (<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1501" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;" target="_blank">18 U.S. Code § 1501</a>-<a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1502" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;" target="_blank">1502</a>) of “not more than one year.”</div>
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“Realistically, what he faces is 30 months with 19 already served,” said Kevin M. Gallagher, director of <a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;">Free Barrett Brown</a>. He added that Brown will likely petition the court for leniency, and told me, “We believe he has a strong chance of getting time served, and ultimately will be out of jail this year.”</div>
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The new indictment illustrates just how differently the government and his supporters view Brown's actions. Federal prosecutors state that he intentionally diverted attention away from Hammond, misleading the authorities (and Stratfor) with regards to his identity.</div>
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Brown is, however, a credentialed journalist who has been published by numerous respected outlets. As such, supporters would argue he had a constitutional right to defend his sources against prying federal investigators. The prosecution has continuously shifted its tactics in pursuing the case, and "has thoroughly embarrassed itself," said Leiderman. He reflected on the Government's dismissal of charges that sought to criminalize Brown's <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/hyperlinking-isnt-illegal-the-bulk-of-barrett-browns-charges-were-dropped" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.08s ease-in; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7974bd; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.08s ease-in;" target="_blank">sharing of a hyperlink</a>, citing a clear inability for prosecutors to hold their case together.</div>
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A re-arraignment is scheduled to take place in the Dallas federal courthouse on April 29th, according to electronic filings.</div>
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"Yeah," said Gallagher, "he's coming home soon."</div>
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Federal agents have been accused of carrying out an improper search of documents contained on the computer of a former Reuters journalist who has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/14/reuters-matthew-keys-indicted-anonymous" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">been charged with conspiring with hackers t</a>o deface the website of the Los Angeles Times.</div>
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Matthew Keys, 26, has been indicted for providing a username and password to the hacker group Anonymous that allowed it to hack into the Los Angeles Times website and alter a headline.</div>
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At the US district court in Sacramento on Wednesday, an attorney for Keys, Jay Leiderman, said federal agents carried out a trawl of files on Keys's computer in 2012 that was not allowed under their search warrant. He asked that information taken from the computer be suppressed by the court.</div>
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"The warrant did not give the power to rummage through the journalist's files," Leiderman said, adding "there is no indication of why all this information needed to be seized".</div>
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The computer in question was used by Keys to send files regarding his own case to another journalist who was writing a book about Anonymous in 2012. It is not clear what the prosecution intends to do with the information agents found during the search or if any of it will be used in an upcoming trial.</div>
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The prosecution argued that agents carried out a broad search of the computer because they were concerned relevant files could have been moved or hidden. They further argued that child pornography cases, in which entire hard drives are seized and used as evidence, set a precedent for such indiscriminate searches.</div>
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Leiderman responded by saying, as a journalist, Keys would be unlikely to move or tamper with files relating to an ongoing story and rejected the idea that child pornography cases are analogous to this case.</div>
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Judge Kimberly Mueller is expected to give her decision on the legality of the search on 26 February.</div>
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The case against Keys has caused a stir in the online media community, where many are concerned he is the victim of over-stringent action by law enforcement. He faces three charges in total under the 1984 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Each charge carries a potential fine of $250,000 and potential jail terms of five years on one count and 10 on each of the other two.</div>
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Supporters of Keys point out that his actions caused little disruption to the LA Times. The hackers used the password to change one headline from "Pressure Builds in House to Pass Tax-Cuts" to "Pressure Builds in House to Elect CHIPPY 1337." CHIPPY 1337 is a reference to another hacking group.</div>
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The headline was quickly amended and the password changed to avoid further breaches. The company that owns the LA Times spent $5,000 updating security measures to avoid a recurrence, according to the indictment.</div>
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The alleged offences occurred in 2010 when Keys was working for KTXL Fox 40, a Sacramento-based television station owned by the Tribune Company, which also owns the LA Times.</div>
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Keys later moved to Reuters where he worked as a social media editor before being put on paid leave once the charges were brought against him. He was later dismissed. He will appear in court again on 26 February when Mueller will giver her decision on the application to suppress.</div>
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US federal agents illegally obtained evidence against a former Reuters journalist when they scoured his computer for documents that were not mentioned in the search warrant they were granted, the reporter’s attorney argued in court Wednesday.</div>
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Matthew Keys, 26, was charged in 2012 with conspiring with hackers from Anonymous, providing them with a username and password that allowed them access to the Los Angeles Times website and subsequently change a headline. When federal agents investigating Keys examined the computer in question they accessed files Keys had sent about his own case to another journalist who was at work on a book about the anonymous hacking collective.</div>
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Keys’ attorney, Jay Leiderman, asked the US district court in Sacramento to suppress any evidence the police obtained from that computer.</div>
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“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The warrant did not give the power to rummage through the journalist’s files</em>,” he said Wednesday, nothing “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">there is no indication of why all this information needed to be seized</em>.”</div>
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How the prosecution plans to use the information investigators obtained is unclear, however authorities said the search needed to be conducted because files relevant to the investigation may have been deleted by Keys. Attorneys cited child pornography investigations, in which entire hard drives are often seized, provide a precedent for this case.</div>
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According to the Guardian, Leiderman responded by saying that a child porn example is irrelevant to this case and asserted that Keys, being a journalist, would not destroy files that were part of an ongoing story.</div>
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The Justice Department claims that Keys, dejected over being fired from his job at KXTL Fox 40, a Tribune Company subsidiary, gave his log-in information to hackers in an Anonymous chat room and told them to “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">go f**k some shit up</em>.” They then infiltrated the site of the Los Angeles Times, another Tribune company, and changed a headline from “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pressure builds in House to Pass Tax-Cuts</em>” to “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pressure Builds in House to Elect CHIPPY 1337</em>,” a reference to another hacker group.</div>
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Prosecutors explained that the plan was designed to “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">make unauthorized changes to web sites that the Tribune Company used to communicate news features to the public; and to damage computer systems used by the Tribune Company</em>.”</div>
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Leiderman said that Keys was acting as an embedded journalist when the alleged criminal activity occurred in 2010. Keys faces up to 25 years in prison and a $750,000 fine if convicted, although prosecutors told the Associated Press last year that Keys would likely be sentenced to between 10 and 27 months behind bars because he has no criminal record. Keys has refused a plea bargain.</div>
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“<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He met these people in chat rooms, they knew he was a journalist and knew where he used to work</em>,” Leiderman told the Huffington Post, adding that the credentials Keys provided were incapable of gaining access to the LA Times site. “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s an incongruity to all of this that we’re hoping to get to the bottom of in the next couple months</em>.”</div>
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jayleidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15694235843992133665noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421501650737652357.post-25616978672621293462013-10-24T14:01:00.000-07:002013-10-24T14:04:41.370-07:00Lorax Live on Radio AnonOps with Jay Leiderman<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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Lorax Live <i class="icon-minus" style="background-image: url(http://www.anonymousvideo.eu/squelettes/img/glyphicons-halflings.png); background-position: -433px -96px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin-top: 1px; vertical-align: text-top; width: 14px;"></i> Jay Leiderman</h5>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;">Jay Leiderman is a criminal law specialist and defense attorney who has represented members of Anonymous and Lulzsec.</span></div>
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jayleidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15694235843992133665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421501650737652357.post-68925325709984967322013-10-01T16:36:00.000-07:002013-10-04T10:01:46.476-07:00Letters Desperately Needed For Jeremy Hammond's Sentencing by 10/15<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"You don't have to know Jeremy to help, you just have to care"</b></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">~ Jeremy's friend Grace said that at the #FreeHammond/#FreeBB <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhN6r2lrts" target="_blank">fundraiser</a> in NY in August. It is doubtless true. Jeremy Hammond is a prisoner pending <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/05/hammond-plea/" target="_blank">sentencing for computer hacking crimes</a>. His crimes were acts of civil disobedience, acts of protest against an encroaching surveillance state. He is part of a new breed of electronic dissident, a list populated by such pop heroes as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden" target="_blank">Edward Snowden</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynhN6r2lrts" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_Brown" target="_blank">Barrett Brown</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange" target="_blank">Julian Assange</a> and the <a href="http://freeanons.org/tag/paypal14/" target="_blank">PayPal14</a>. Jeremy faces a maximum of 10 years under the plea agreement he signed. The government will want the full 10 years. Will you please help us ask the judge for less time? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jeremy’s sentencing is not going to be delayed any further. It will go forward mid-November. Letters to the court in support of Jeremy need to be in by no later than the 15<sup>th
</sup>of October so they can be submitted to the court - that means you should do it now - TODAY! This is important. If you care about Jeremy Hammond, the freedom of the internet or the encroaching surveillance state, you need to take action on this now - this is the opportunity to have your voice heard on this matter. Any and all help that you all
can give, including both passing this along and writing your own letter to the court about why they should
not give Jeremy 10 years is not only appreciated, but is desperately needed. Please
spread this message around and let’s get as many letters as we can and let’s make
sure they are all thoughtful and powerful. This
is important for Jeremy and important for freedom. Please speak now on this crucial issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jeremy Hammond is a gifted young computer programmer facing a decade in prison. His crime? Leaking information from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, information which revealed that Stratfor had been spying on human rights activists at the behest of corporations and the U.S. government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In March 2012 Jeremy was arrested in his Chicago home and charged with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same legislation used to prosecute Aaron Swartz. This outdated law, written before the Internet was even created, gives absurdly broad powers to corporations and prosecutors to criminalize an array of online activity and pursue extreme and disproportionate sentences. By contrast, of Jeremy’s co-defendants in Ireland and in the U.K. none will spend more than 16 months in prison, and many have been released already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jeremy has been denied bail, cut off from his family, and held in solitary confinement– treatment normally reserved for the most egregious offenses. He did nothing for personal gain and everything in hopes of making the world a better place. He is facing a maximum sentence of ten years, but the minimum is zero. He has been jailed since March 2012 awaiting trial and now sentencing. It’s time for him to come home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=jeremy+hammond&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS471US471&oq=jeremy+Hammo&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0j69i61j69i60l2j0.4118j0&sourceid=chrome&espvd=208&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&q=jeremy+hammond" target="_blank">Read More about Jeremy:</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Jeremy Hammond Wikipedia</b>: </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Hammond</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Rolling Stone Article</b>: </span><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-jeremy-hammond-enemy-of-the-state-20121207"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-jeremy-hammond-enemy-of-the-state-20121207</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Chicago Magazine</b>: </span><a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2007/The-Hacktivist/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2007/The-Hacktivist/</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Huffington Post Article</b>: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivien-lesnik-weisman/post_4885_b_3352308.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivien-lesnik-weisman/post_4885_b_3352308.html</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is much better if letters are signed, have the appearance of coming from real people, and have return addresses. We understand if people wish to remain anonymous, and would prefer they submit letters anonymously than not at all, but the Judge will place much greater weight on the letters that include this information.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is preferential that letters go straight to Sarah Kuntsler or to Susan Kellman's office. For those that wish to participate but still wish to retain their privacy/anonymity: I will collect letters to go to Ms. Kellman's office. If you want your letter printed out and do not want to send it straight to Jeremy's attorneys of record, Ms. Kellman and Sarah Kuntsler, you can send them to me and I will overnight the letters. I must have them by early morning, PST on the 14th so I can get letters to New York by the 15th. Whatever way they come to me I will do my best to ensure that they remain as anonymous as possible, including following whatever instructions that you give me to the best of my ability. I will handle all letters with "attorney/client" confidence and submit only that portion of the communication that is necessary for the judge to review it. That means, for example, printing out an email as opposed to forwarding it (and its metadata), or downloading a document from jabber and printing it. More instructions for Anonymous authors can be found below. </span><br />
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Southern District of New York.
We are collecting letters of support on his behalf. Please submit your
letter by <b>October 15, 2013</b> so that
it can be included in our submission to the Court. <b>Please do not send your letter directly to the Court – it will not be
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BODY OF LETTER: Briefly
discuss yourself – who you are, your position in work or your role in the
community. If you are not personally acquainted with Jeremy, tell the Judge why
you are interested in his case. State that you are aware that Jeremy has pled
guilty to a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Tell the Judge why
you believe he should be treated with compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you know Jeremy
personally, and can offer some personal observations, you will want to mention
this in your letter. It would be helpful
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUkGHJ8jHwuRR9IEeJ2bdEckDf_b6a5QqJgp7XJ2wci6mtPIMv-uuwT08kPNVMqLtrjRXoIRAxSfsW1O64dU7DSeYCkH4Tn2PF2XytXx8HzC5IiiqDk39MYLbCBwxGhLRY967wXFHOvJE/s1600/IMG_1344.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUkGHJ8jHwuRR9IEeJ2bdEckDf_b6a5QqJgp7XJ2wci6mtPIMv-uuwT08kPNVMqLtrjRXoIRAxSfsW1O64dU7DSeYCkH4Tn2PF2XytXx8HzC5IiiqDk39MYLbCBwxGhLRY967wXFHOvJE/s200/IMG_1344.JPG" width="139" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">· </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jeremy's character, compassion</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, integrity, accomplishments, interests, relationships, interaction with and treatment of other people, and your personal and/or professional relationship with him. </span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">· If there are specific anecdotes that will help the reader develop a better picture of Jeremy, we encourage you to share those. It is a good idea to include a brief description of you: your occupation, activities in which you might be involved and any other points which will establish your identity and your ability to advise the court about Jeremy. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you would like to
address the disparate treatment of Jeremy's co-defendants, or put his case in
the context of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), you may want to
mention some of the following points:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">·
<!--[endif]-->Jeremy's co-defendants in Ireland and in the United Kingdom were given treatment that is disparate, those
who are already convicted will not spend more than 16 months in prison, some have already been released<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[endif]-->The disproportionate sentences associated with the CFAA, or that
the protection the CFAA affords to corporations is greater than those it
affords to individuals, who may be subjected to surveillance by private
corporations such as Stratfor. (For more information on the CFAA, please visit
the website of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa">https://www.eff.org/issues/cfaa)</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether you know Jeremy or
not, you may want to mention that he had no financial gain from his actions, which he
undertook as politically-motivated acts of civil disobedience. <b>Do not try to
argue that Jeremy is not guilty or was unfairly convicted. You are asking the
Judge for leniency. <o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since this is not an effort to mislead or create a false impression, you are encouraged to write an honest, straightforward word portrait of Jeremy. Do not hesitate to write from the heart, and/or emphasize anything you feel is important. One of the goals of your letter is to enable the reader to see Jeremy through your eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is best to write in plain, everyday, conversational language, as if you were speaking to the reader. If possible, your letter should be typewritten, and, if appropriate, on business stationary, and addressed to me. I will deliver it to the parties that will be reading it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are anonymous and wish to remain anonymous, please give enough identifying information about you to allow the reader to understand who it is that you are, without giving too much information. For example, if you use a Twitter handle, you may use that as your identification. You can identify simply as a member of a particular group. Please do not fail to write a letter because you do not to give your full name and/or other identifying information to the government. We can work with whatever limitations there are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sign the letter and include
your return address if you are willing and able to do so. Completed letters can be (1) faxed to 347-402-2014, (2)
scanned and emailed to sarah at kunstlerlaw dot net, or (3) mailed to: </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">The Law
Office of Susan G. Kellman; </b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">25 Eighth
Avenue; </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brooklyn,
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at kunstlerlaw dot net. You can also contact me, my contact information is above, my email is jay@criminal-lawyer.me. Please remember that Sarah Kuntsler and Susan Kellman are Jeremy's attorneys of record. I am simply a member of his "legal team" and am not acting in an official capacity. Ms. Kuntsler and Ms. Kellman have final authority in this case. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Original instructions from freejeremy.net: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://freejeremy.net/giant-banner/join-us-in-asking-for-leniency-in-jeremys-sentencing/">http://freejeremy.net/giant-banner/join-us-in-asking-for-leniency-in-jeremys-sentencing/</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt;"><i>THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. We know how to put a proper price upon goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jayleidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15694235843992133665noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421501650737652357.post-12540097786836859012013-08-29T13:47:00.000-07:002013-08-29T13:47:40.561-07:00Computer Crimes Defense: 'Find the best defense attorney you can'<h4 class="meta" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Hackers being prosecuted under the CFAA don’t just need digital experts; they need good defense against a law vague enough to encompass most anything</div>
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By <a href="http://www.cjr.org/author/sarah-laskow/" style="color: black; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Sarah Laskow</a></div>
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<i>[This is Part 2 of a piece on CFAA attorneys by Sarah Laskow. For Part 1 <a href="http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/cfaa_defense_attorneys_part_1.php" target="_blank">click here</a>.</i></div>
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<i>It appeared in the <a href="http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/lawyers_hacker_call_part_2.php?page=all" target="_blank">Columbia Journalism Review</a>.]</i></div>
Most criminal defendants, whether fighting a DUI or fighting <a href="http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/aarons_law.php?page=all" style="color: #bb0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</a> charges, have a small legal team, often just one overtaxed defense attorney. Matthew Keys, the social media editor <a href="http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/exit_interview_matthew_keys.php" style="color: #bb0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">who’s accused</a> of helping Anonymous vandalize the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>’ website, has not just <a href="http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/cfaa_defense_attorneys_part_1.php" style="color: #bb0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Tor Ekeland</a> on his team, but also<a href="http://www.jayleiderman.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> Jay Leiderman</span></a>, another lawyer developing something of a reputation as a specialist in hackers charged by the government with violating the CFAA.<br />
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If Ekeland fell into this field almost by accident, Leiderman took a slightly more deliberate path. His first CFAA client was Commander X, an Anonymous-affiliated hacker—a job Leiderman retained by suggesting it on Twitter. It “sort of got picked up,” he says. “Once I represented X, he thrust me into the rest of it,” says Leiderman, “X’s opinion was — ‘Oh, you’re not just my lawyer. You’re the lawyer for Anonymous; you’re the lawyer for every hacker that ever lived.’”</div>
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But even if it’s increasingly exciting for lawyers like Ekeland and Leiderman to become go-to experts on the CFAA, it doesn’t guarantee them business. No matter how much they geek out about free speech and computer crime law, they’re not the only lawyers qualified to take these cases. </div>
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Back in 2000, Jennifer Granick was “the lawyer hackers call.” (That’s what <i>Forbes</i>called her, at least.) As a full-time defense attorney, she made computer crime one of her specialities. But when Aaron Swartz called her up after the federal government indicted him, she helped him find a different lawyer. Aside from a short stint at a boutique firm, from 2010 to 2012, she’s spent most of the past 12 years at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. What Swartz needed, she later wrote, wasn’t a CFAA expert but “good old criminal defense advocacy, something that I haven’t done for years.” Swartz’s lawyers—he was represented by three different firms over the course of his trial—worked, broadly, in criminal defense.</div>
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These lawyers weren’t part of the small subset who obsess over the CFAA. These were lawyers that represented clients like Lance Armstrong, not Anonymous hackers. But they were good—excellent—attorneys. They knew how to introduce evidence and work a jury and raise the right arguments on appeal. And that’s useful. When I asked Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor who works on the CFAA, who a person charged with related violations should call, he said, simply: “Find the best defense attorney you can.”</div>
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That’s one service that the Electronic Frontier Foundation helps provide. “We get a lot of calls after the feds have come with their search warrant,” says staff attorney Hanni Fakhoury. The organization can’t take all those cases but will help defendants find a lawyer who can. A good lawyer will know at least a little bit about computer crime law. “I think any lawyer who’s practicing needs to be up to date and needs to have a sophisticated understanding of this law,” says Fakhoury.</div>
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Still, legal expertise does count for something: Even if a defendant need not call one of these lawyers who specializes in the CFAA, her lawyer probably will.</div>
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“Once you’re in this space, you begin to get phone calls,” says Kerr. EFF attorneys will help other lawyers brainstorm strategy and facilitate testimony from technologists. Ekeland says he’s gotten phone calls seeking advice on the CFAA from multibillion-dollar firms who never would have hired him. </div>
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But more important—particularly when you’re looking to serve a community that’s suspicious of outsiders and harbors a healthy antipathy towards authority figures—is the cache in being known as an ally, someone who gets it. It takes a certain type of person to get excited about representing a client like <a href="http://gawker.com/5962159/the-internets-best-terrible-person-goes-to-jail-can-a-reviled-master-troll-become-a-geek-hero" style="color: #bb0000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Andrew Auernheimer</a>, known as weev, who has a ream of less-than-popular views, or like Commander X, who led a group of hackers, who, displeased with businesses like PayPal and Mastercard for blocking donations to Wikileaks, crashed their websites with denial-of-service attacks in 2010. </div>
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Especially when this sort of work doesn’t pay.</div>
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“I don’t make a lot of money off of CFAA cases,” says Ekeland. While defending Auernheimer, he says, he had almost no money to spend on it (although later donations helped cover some costs). “People think I was joking when I said I didn’t know how I was going to afford PATH fare to the trial,” he says. “I almost lost everything doing that trial. I almost lost my house, my car. It cost me at a lot.” </div>
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Most lawyers don’t risk their houses for their clients. EFF, for instance, has a list of collaborating attorneys that the organization’s lawyers will feed cases to. Some of those lawyers will work pro bono. Some take a fee. “Once they’ve worked with us before, they want to work for us again,” says EFF’s Fakhoury. “I think there are a lot of people interested in the work we do.”</div>
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In other words, there are plenty of people who recognize the rewards of this work and could take it on. But there are only a few who are true believers.</div>
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Both Ekeland and Leiderman say they do this work because they believe in it and find it fascinating. While the work is getting them attention in certain communities, it doesn’t necessarily boost their regular practice. “A lot of the regular clients don’t necessarily know I do this type of stuff,” says Leiderman. “They know me as a hard-charging advocate here.” (One exception: his medical marijuana clients, who “love the crossover,” Leiderman says. “There’s a congruence between those two sets of clients.”)</div>
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“I’ve gotten myself targeted by the FBI and NSA and all of that,” says Leiderman. “For what? For no money, for no financial reward. That’s why people think I’m nuts. That’s what’s exciting about all of this to me…It does make the government uncomfortable, as well it should.”</div>
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<i>Disclosure: CJR has received funding from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to cover intellectual-property issues, but the organization has no influence on the content<br />.</i></div>
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jayleidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15694235843992133665noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421501650737652357.post-17770914935854048942013-08-19T07:19:00.003-07:002013-08-23T13:19:12.444-07:00Remarks Made at the Jeremy Hammond / Barrett Brown Fundraiser 19 August 2013 New York<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 19.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We live in times where our liberties are ever threatened. Where the individual is presumed to yield to the
state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Things that should not have ever been forgotten have, until
recently, seemingly been lost to history. Things that should be said and known
every day as we Americans decide how we allow ourselves to be governed are no
longer spoken except by an outlawed few. Our privacy, the very gift that
gives us our spirit of independence has become threatened. But out of the
shadows has emerged some hope for all of us. A legion has arrived, a legion the
United States Government should have expected. Where the masses have forgotten,
a new breed of patriot, the hacktivist, remembers. Words that have, over the
years, lost their meaning have suddenly gained meaning anew. There is a war on
information, but that is not a war that the government will win. The people
will prevail. As the people must prevail. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I want to read to you a bit: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>THESE
are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that
stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like
hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the
harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap,
we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. We
know how to put a proper price upon goods; and it would be strange indeed if so
celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, Winter 1776. It is as
appropriate now as it was at Valley Forge. It shouldn't be, but it is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let us not forget the principles upon which this country was
born. As we look to our seemingly forgotten past we must embrace the fantastic
promise of the digital revolution. It is our future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The world is changing at a faster pace than it ever has before. One person with the courage to come forward
can change the world in ways they never could before. But we must be mindful of the world as it is
so that we can act to change it in ways that will benefit the future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Noteworthy","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Money</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Power<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sex<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Drugs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rock and roll<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These things have become passé <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Information is the new currency <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Information is the new aphrodisiac<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Information is the new high. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He who controls the information controls your world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And your government knows it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But we're starting to know it too, thanks at least in part to
the groundbreaking work of Jeremy Hammond and Barrett Brown, two of the first
prophets of the digital age. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Noteworthy","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Educate
and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for
the preservation of our liberty</i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Noteworthy","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, said Thomas
Jefferson. But our government would likely seek to classify our founding
fathers as terrorists if they dared seek to turn their rhetoric to reality
today. How far we have drifted from the American ideals. What dangerous times
are these. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Likewise, predictably lurking about Jeremy and Barrett are
prosecutors and judges who want to turn these prophets into martyrs. Our aim is
to see that they fail miserably in these endeavors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At issue in the cases of both Hammond and Brown is the principle
that people are entitled to privacy while the state must be transparent. Syllogistically,
a good result in The United States v Hammond and The United States v. Brown
translates into a good result for freedom, freedom for us all. At the same
time, we must also recognize that what is good for freedom is antithetical to
the emerging omnipresent surveillance state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jeremy is accused of hacking Strategic Forecasting Inc.,
commonly known as Stratfor. Stratfor was
thought of as a private CIA. He has
admitted to passing over 5 million emails to Wikileaks for publication. He has pled guilty and faces a possible 10
years in federal prison. Those emails
gave us a glimpse of the evil and inappropriate relationship between the government
and the private spy network, the so called private intelligence community. Among the disclosures of the Stratfor emails
shed light upon was something called trapwire – facial recognition software
already in place in major American cities that can track you as you go about
your daily routine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trapwire was one of the many items that journalist Barrett Brown
was investigating at the time of his arrest.
Barrett pends trial on charges that could add up to over 100 years of
custody time. Principal among the
charges he faces are allegations that he shared a link to the Stratfotr hack
wherein there were credit card numbers.
Assuming arguendo he did so, he shared a link to a newsworthy
event. He did something journalists do
every day all day long. But because of
his investigations into these private intelligence firms, including Booz Allen
Hamilton, the company in the news because they were the NSA contractor who
employed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Barrett was charged and stands to
lose his freedom for all of his days. He’s
32 and they could give him 100 years.
It’s obscene. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let me read some Jefferson once more to buttress the historic
importance of these acts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Rightful
liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around
us by the equal rights of others. I do
not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often the tyrants will,
and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indeed, Jefferson would be in the lockup today, perhaps sharing
a cell with Jeremy or Barrett. What
dangerous times are these indeed when personal liberty is constantly under
threat of incarceration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jeremy and Barrett acted not for fame or for financial
gain. They didn’t think that one day we
would gather together like this to support them and their actions. They did what they did because of their
unyielding principles. Because they
understood that freedom, liberty and independence come from that simple
concept; privacy for the individual and transparency for the state. Based upon that, they have acted heroically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They remembered the American ideals that were lost to time. They remembered their past as they forged
ahead to make a better future for us all.
These are indeed the times that try man’s souls, but if we follow the
lead set by Jeremy and Barrett, I’ve no doubt that it will be the American
people that have a glorious triumph over the American government and the corporatocracy’s
private surveillance state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Donating to the causes of Jeremy Hammond and Barrett Brown is
important for the foregoing reasons. We ask you to stand up for freedom, to
stand against the surveillance state, to stand for the true ideals of the
American experiment and help us protect and fight for these prophets of the
digital age. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Noteworthy","serif"; font-size: 17.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jeremy and Barrett put themselves on the line for your freedom.
Please help secure theirs. We do not forgive the transgressions of the
surveillance state. We do not forget our
heroes. </span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
jayleidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15694235843992133665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421501650737652357.post-34431715322383430132013-08-13T21:25:00.000-07:002013-08-14T21:13:35.916-07:00A Benefit for Barrett Brown and Jeremy Hammond<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Benefit for Barrett Brown and Jeremy Hammond</span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Free Barrett Brown"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Free Barrett Brown</em></a> and the <a href="http://freejeremy.net/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Free Jeremy Hammond"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jeremy Hammond Defense Committee</em></a> are collaborating to produce a night to jointly raise funds for these two prominent internet activists. All proceeds will be split evenly between the two; with half to Barrett’s legal expenses and half going to support Jeremy while he is incarcerated. This is a fundraiser event and variety show with notable speakers, musical performances, and the auctioning of items. Brown is an investigative journalist who exposed the world of private spying with Project PM while Hammond is the alleged source for WikiLeaks’ Global Intelligence Files. Barrett faces up to 105 years in prison and is awaiting trial, while Jeremy faces up to 10 years after taking a plea agreement. You can read about <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett-brown" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Strange Case of Barrett Brown">The Strange Case of Barrett Brown</a> and <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-jeremy-hammond-enemy-of-the-state-20121207" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond">The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">When:</strong><br />Monday, August 19th 2013<br />7PM to 11PM</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Where:</strong><br /><a href="http://thoughtworksnyc.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">ThoughtWorks NYC</a><br />99 Madison Avenue, 15th Floor<br />Max capacity: 75 people<br />Drinks and food will be served.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Speakers:</strong><br />Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights, attorney for WikiLeaks)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stanley Cohen (All-Around Legal Stud and PayPal 14 Attorney)<br />Jay Leiderman (Attorney who has defended members of Anonymous)<br />Tor Ekeland (Attorney for weev, convicted under CFAA)<br />Kevin Gallagher (Director of Free Barrett Brown)<br />Emily Kunstler (from Jeremy’s legal team, with a statement from Jeremy)<br />Alexa O’Brien (Journalist covering the Bradley Manning trial, by video)<br />Glenn Greenwald (Journalist who broke NSA stories, by video)<br />To be announced. . .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Performers:</strong><br />Arthur Smilios (of The Gorilla Biscuits)<br />Anthony Atamanuik (UCB Theatre/MTV/30 Rock)<br />To be announced. . .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Auction items:</strong><br />Art by Shepard Fairey, Molly Crabapple<br />A signed guitar from Dave Navarro<br />To be announced. . .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Admission:</strong><br />$20 minimum</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All guests will receive a free DVD copy of <a href="http://www.waronwhistleblowers.com/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State</a></span></div>
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jayleidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15694235843992133665noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421501650737652357.post-91332003522164541542013-06-24T09:30:00.000-07:002013-06-24T09:31:38.803-07:00A Donation Plea From "Free Barrett Brown"<div style="background: white; line-height: 18.0pt;">
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dear friend of press
freedom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">I’m
writing to you with an urgent request: <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">your support for the legal
defense fund of Barrett Brown, an investigative journalist now facing life
in prison as a result of his writing and research.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPu9LLaT11a95-FmFldgLH646ovsz7n_o8oQGv4rgNoLQRI-fUUfzlJRTesi9QgpMuhJT6YkF8G4AKjtoZxbZp5vzjFQehr6E6mHlgTsi54MvJrLH7fdsF-XViJy6qYDYoGqnAePZxTkg/s1600/IMG_0891.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPu9LLaT11a95-FmFldgLH646ovsz7n_o8oQGv4rgNoLQRI-fUUfzlJRTesi9QgpMuhJT6YkF8G4AKjtoZxbZp5vzjFQehr6E6mHlgTsi54MvJrLH7fdsF-XViJy6qYDYoGqnAePZxTkg/s400/IMG_0891.JPG" width="400" /></a><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">American
journalism is under attack in 2013.</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> In recent years we’ve
seen an unprecedented wave of criminal investigations targeting reporters and
whistleblowers, while prosecutors abuse vague laws regarding computer use to
threaten activists with outrageous sentences. <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Today Barrett Brown faces the
full weight of this crackdown. It’s up to us to ensure that Barrett sees
justice and defeats the wildly excessive charges against him.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Barrett’s
career as a journalist is a brave and colorful one. He has written for
publications including Vanity Fair, the Guardian, and the Huffington Post; and
he co-authored a popular book, <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Flock of Dodos</span></i>. In
2010, the revelations brought to light by WikiLeaks spurred Barrett to start
investigating the secretive world of private cybersecurity, defense and
intelligence contractors. Barrett founded an independent think-tank, <a href="http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page" style="outline: none;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #21759b; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Project PM</span></a>, and started reporting on the Anonymous
hacktivist collective. </span></div>
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When Anonymous hacked into the records of the private
security firm HBGary Federal in early 2011, Barrett’s zeal for transparency in
taxpayer-funded yet little-known defense projects led him to spend months
researching this company’s corrupt activities. He did the same in 2012, after
the leak of thousands of records from the private intelligence firm Stratfor.<o:p></o:p><br />
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is a serious journalist who has spent the last several years doggedly
investigating the shadowy and highly secretive underworld of private
intelligence and defense contractors, who work hand-in-hand with the
agencies of the Surveillance and National Security State in all sorts of
ways that remain completely unknown to the public. It is virtually
impossible to conclude that the obscenely excessive prosecution he now
faces is unrelated to that journalism and his related activism.”<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Despite
his achievements, Barrett now waits in prison to fight a sentence of up
to <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">105 years</span></b>. The 17 charges against him are based on
Barrett having blogged openly about FBI harassment of him and his family; on
Barrett allegedly having hidden a laptop when a family member’s home was raided
by the FBI in search of evidence against him; on his allegedly having
“trafficked in stolen goods” — that is, Stratfor documents containing clients’
credit card data; and on his alleged “dissemination” of the Stratfor documents
by simply <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">copying and pasting a link</span></b> to
them in an online chat. There is no indication that Barrett sought to use the
credit card numbers in any way; in fact, he publicly condemned Anonymous’
suggestion of doing so. <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">As a journalist, Barrett felt
responsible for exposing to the public the inner workings of firms contracting
with the U.S. government — and for his efforts, he may receive a lifetime
in prison.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Barrett’s
prosecution highlights <u><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">critical issues</span></u> for
American journalists, activists, and internet users:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 2.571428571rem; mso-list: l10 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">The right to link.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The
charges against Barrett for sharing the Stratfor data represent an attempt
to criminalize linking. What does this mean for the rights of internet
users, let alone journalists who link to primary source material? Online
linking is used by millions daily. What absurd legal theory makes an
internet user responsible for the content and consequences of a shared
link, resulting in criminal charges?<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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freedom</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">. Barrett’s
work to uncover the activities of private security and intelligence
companies made him a prime target for prosecution. If citizens are
prevented from researching the growing surveillance state, what will
become of privacy, transparency, and civil liberties in America? Already
we see chilling effects on journalists working to shed light on corruption
and abuse among government contractors.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 2.571428571rem; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Selective prosecution</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">. Many
others — including established reporters — shared the same link
to Stratfor data named in Barrett’s indictment. Why is only Barrett being
prosecuted? And why is the FBI worried enough about the speech of an
unarmed writer to conduct heavily-armed raids on his home? Barrett’s
case is a prime example of the DOJ’s current prosecutorial abuse of
journalists, whistleblowers, and information activists.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #444444; line-height: 18.0pt; margin: 2.571428571rem; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Reporters’ privilege.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> The
laptop that Barrett allegedly hid contained journalistic sources and work
product, including a book in progress. The First Amendment protects
reporters from revealing confidential information or sources. It isn’t
hard to conclude that the charges based on Barrett’s alleged concealment
amount to an effort to stifle his reporting on America’s growing
surveillance industry.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fortunately,
two of the most skilled and dedicated lawyers in the country have taken up the
fight: <a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/lawyers/" style="outline: none;" title="His Lawyers"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #21759b; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Charles Swift and Ahmed
Ghappour</span></a>, best known for their advocacy on behalf of Guantánamo
detainees, winning a victory over the Bush administration in a 2006 Supreme
Court case<i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">. </span></i>But even with expert representation, Barrett’s
defense calls for resources that he doesn’t have. <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Your support is urgently needed</span></b> to help Barrett
regain his freedom and continue his vital work. And this is not Barrett’s fight
alone — <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">the outcome of this case will affect every American’s rights to
free speech, to independent journalism, and to political activism.</span></b> Not
only does Barrett deserve a future — so do all of us, to preserve our
right to know what our government does in secret, yet in our names.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Barrett’s
trial begins in September.</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> His defense is being funded
entirely through individual donors. With less than three months to go, <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">will you help today?</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Three
easy ways to contribute:</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Free Barrett Brown Ltd., P.O. Box 2658, Amherst, MA 01004<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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levels of support:</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Don’t
let the government take away a courageous journalist’s life with abusive
prosecution for alleged information “crimes.” Free Barrett Brown.</span></b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">With many thanks, and in
solidarity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jayleidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15694235843992133665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8421501650737652357.post-22567842238791611462013-06-20T09:56:00.000-07:002013-06-20T09:56:34.114-07:00A Message From "Free Barrett Brown" Concerning Michael Hastings<div class="MsoNormal">
Free Barrett Brown sends its condolences to the friends and
family of Michael Hastings who <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-rolling-stone-contributor-dead-at-33-20130618" target="_blank">died</a> in a fiery car crash early Tuesday morning. Hastings
was a fearless journalist who questioned power. He was a friend of Barrett's
and an active member of <a href="http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">Project PM</a>, a crowd-sourced research effort to expose
government intelligence contractors. We deeply mourn his passing.</div>
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Barrett defended Hastings' award winning journalism in his Vanity Fair piece,
"<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/why-the-hacks-hate-michael-hastings" target="_blank">Why The Hacks Hate Michael Hastings</a>." He was candid
about their friendship—warning the reader:</div>
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disclosure, but also necessary context—that I am a friend and admirer of
Michael Hastings</div>
, the author of the Rolling Stone piece in question. He was
kind enough to blurb my upcoming book on the failures of the American punditry
(and is planning on writing a novel on the same topic, incidentally); he shares
my opinions on the state of journalism and opinion in this country; and he has
joined up with Project PM, my perhaps quixotic attempt to do a small part in
improving that media whose flawed reporting on matters of war and peace has
recently had a hand in leaving hundreds of thousands dead and injured our
republic’s ability to rationally operate both at home and abroad. I first spoke
in support of Hastings before I’d ever made contact with him, which is to say
that my opinion of him is not based on our association; my association with him
is based on my opinion of him. That opinion is derived from the unassailable
and unfortunately noteworthy competence and conduct he has displayed throughout
his relatively short career."<br />
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Barrett also blurbed Hastings' second book, <i>The Operators: The Wild and
Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan</i>, calling it,
"The most impact-laden story of the year . . . written by a perfect
specimen of the new breed of journalist-commentator."</div>
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In support of Barrett, Hastings <a href="http://freebarrettbrown.org/supporters#hastings" target="_blank">wrote</a>:
“Barrett Brown is a journalist, plain and simple. He’s also a colleague and
friend, and one of the brilliant, if highly unconventional, American writers of
his generation. I offer my support to Barrett and his family, and respectfully
ask for his immediate release from custody.” He <a href="https://twitter.com/mmhastings/status/342674595905679361" target="_blank">believed</a>
Barrett's work helped contribute to a free press.</div>
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Before his untimely death, Hastings was working on a story about Barrett, <a href="https://twitter.com/mmhastings/status/294534049094053888" target="_blank">announcing</a>
mysteriously to his followers "Get ready for your mind to be blown."
Hastings had been in touch with Barrett's lawyers, and intended to interview
him in June for the story. Barrett has been in prison for 281 days pending
trial, and faces over a hundred years imprisonment for what Hastings <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-on-americans" target="_blank">called</a> "trumped up FBI charges regarding his
legitimate reportorial inquiry into the political collective known sometimes as
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The loss of Michael Hastings is a tremendous blow to adversarial journalism,
but the circumstances surrounding his death leave many questions unanswered.
Michael <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/347475869629022208" target="_blank">believed</a> he was under FBI investigation at the time of his
death, and that his calls with Barrett were <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1z5_c6JSH8#t=56s" target="_blank">being
recorded</a>.</div>
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<span class="submitted">Submitted by <a href="http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/NewsRoom/aDon-Carpenter" style="color: #375c7d; text-decoration: none;" title="View user profile.">Don Carpenter</a> on Mon, 06/17/2013 - 11:19</span></div>
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6 months ago, thousands of people rallied behind the man known only (then) as KY Anonymous and #knightsec as he rallied the world behind a 16 year old rape victim in Steubenville, Ohio. The tactics then were aggressive weaponizing the media, and posting countless tweets regarding some individuals involved and quite a few not involved in the Steubenville rape case. 2 boys were already charged and on house arrest when anonymous got involved, but the goal was to alert the world to the graphic details behind the story. Some of those details were false or grossly exaggerated by either Ky or his supporters, but the goal nonetheless was to produce public outrage over the shaming of this girl.<br /><br />The mission to weaponize the media and produce such outrage was accomplished. Thousands rallied in Steubenville. Media from across the world camped out in Steubenville. Ky did some media interviews, and eventually the 2 boys charged were tried and sentenced in a court of law. #oprollredroll was over and a success according to the initial goals set out in the beginning. Everyone touted the Knightsec/KY banner for over 6 months until the last few days after Ky unmasked as Deric Lostutter revelaing the feds had raided his home gathering evidence on the rollredroll.com website hack that his partner Batcat aka Noah Mchugh did. It appears that Noah, a defense department employee will not be charged with any crimes. Noah is preparing for his wedding while Deric(KY) is facing 25 years in prison for his role in #oprollredroll. A grand jury has been convened in Steubenville and is hearing evidence on 16 individuals who refused to cooperate during the initial August 2012 rape investigation, and will determine if other crimes were commited during said investigation.<br /><br />Deric after unmasking began seeking donations for his<a href="http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/NewsRoom/Don-Carpenter/Deric-LostutterKy-Anonymous-Legal-Defense-Fund-chat-Jason-Flores-Williams-Kys-Lawyer" style="color: #375c7d; text-decoration: none;"> legal defense</a>, but soon after raising over $40,000 alot of his supporters began turning on him as he proceeded to do dozens of interviews. Deric/KY was soon attacked on twitter as a "fame whore, ego fag, fake, fraud" and worse descriptions that we won't get into here. There has also been countless youtube videos made by Deric in which he uses satire to make fun of women, food stamps and more that are now being used against the boy in the public's eyes.<br /><br />People quickly began forgetting how Deric/Ky started #oprollredroll as a means to not only stand up for a rape victim, but for a cause he believed in which entailed speaking out against crimes and a situation in a small Ohio town that he believed was wrong. That is something that this country was founded upon, and something people continue to fight for to this very day. The right to stand up for yourself, and the right to stand up and speak out against things you believe are wrong. The right to risk your freedom, and everything you have to speak out against the government, and stand up for your beliefs.<br /><br />Over the weekend, Deric/Ky clearly beginning to feel the pressure of his pending legal troubles and the constant attacks of his once supporters/now haters, Deric according to his tweets got drunk, and began fighting back against those trash talking him on social media. This went on for hours until, <a class="ext" href="https://twitter.com/JayLeidermanLaw/status/346115672083947523" style="color: #375c7d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Commander X attorney Jay Leiderman</a><span class="ext" style="background-image: url(http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/NewsRoom/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span> stepped in and advised the 26 year old Kentucky rapper to hush up, and take a break from twitter. Ky took the advice touting some kind of <a class="ext" href="http://www.projectknightsec.com/" style="color: #375c7d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">special announcement </a><span class="ext" style="background-image: url(http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/NewsRoom/sites/all/modules/extlink/extlink.png); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span>later today on the Jake Tapper show on CNN.<br /><br />The entire thing reminds me of a Captain America dissertation on Mark Twain during the Marvel civil war series in which Captain America was labeled a criminal by the government for standing against laws he felt to be unconstitutional. The quotes are as follows:<br /></div>
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"I remember the first time I really understood what it was to be an American...<strong>What it was to be a patriot.</strong>" </blockquote>
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"I was just a kid...A million years ago, it seems sometimes. Maybe twelve. I was reading <strong>Mark Twain</strong>. And he wrote something that struck me right down to my core...something so powerful, so true, that it changed my life. I memorized it so I could repeat it to myself, over and over across the years. He wrote --'In a <strong>republic</strong>, who is the country? </blockquote>
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Is it the government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the government is merely a temporary servant: it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. It's function is to obey orders, not originate them. </blockquote>
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Who, then is the country? Is it the newspaper? Is it the pulpit? Why, these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it, they have not command, they have only their little share in the command. </blockquote>
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In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country: In a <strong>republic</strong> it is the common voice of the people each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. </blockquote>
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It is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the <strong>empty catchphrases</strong> of politicians. </blockquote>
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Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. </blockquote>
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To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. </blockquote>
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If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have your duty by yourself and by your country. Hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of'." </blockquote>
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Cap continues, "Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. </blockquote>
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This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world-- </blockquote>
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<strong>--No,you move."</strong></blockquote>
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<br /><br />That's a very powerful speech, and Deric has remained vocal since coming back into the public light. Many people fault him for that, but what if it was you. Would you remain silent facing 25 years in prison while your partner, a government employee gets away scott free? Would you not weaponize the media again to get your side of the story out there? After knowingly risking your freedom by speaking out and conducting various other anon ops not want a little help from your comrades, and to let the public know what is going on?<br /><br />I personally have no dog in this fight, and can't wait until the Steubenville drama is over. i may not have agreed with all the tactics used during #oprollredroll, but as I was reporting it I couldn't say that. I will say that I am fully behind the idea that is anonymous. The rights to stand up for what you believe in no matter what the cost.</div>
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I also feel that not just KY should be facing prison time as it pertains to the Steubenville case if the government wants to go after anonymous, and conduct by individuals during the course of this drama. So far, Ky is the biggest fish nabbed by the feds, but there were bomb threats made against local schools in steubenville (suspected by what one Steubenville Law enforcement official on grounds of anonymity describes as "locals who just wanted to start shit and put a bad name on the pecaeful masked up protesters from the rallies.) The investigation into those threats, death threats against Sherrif Fred Abdalla, his family, Chief Mccafferty and his family, as well as threats against this reporter are still being investigated with no arrests. I'm told the FBI has suspects but no one except KY and potentially the individuals on the block by the grand jury are facing charges. It's definite KY will be facing charges, the grand jury has no guarantee of charges.<br /><br />The question is, why are they dragging ass on the individuals who threatened residents, journalists, and law enforcement officials not caught yet and facing charges.<br /><br />Say what you want about Deric/Ky, but he stood up for what he believed in despite the consequences. How many of us can honestly say that we would do that until the bitter end?<br /><br />If you need help with your PR Deric, gimme a call. That'll mean I can no longer cover this stuff, but I respect you standing up for what you believe in no matter what, and want to help if I can as it pertains to your social media and media stuff.<br />There are still many KY supporters out there. In situations like this, the good always outweighs the bad.<br /><br />One thing is damn sure though: Steubenville is no longer about a 16 year old rape victim. It's become more about people attacking each other over who is right, and who is wrong. That the masked people are evil, and the town supporters are right and vice versa. It's become a gross shell of it's former self with the young teen lost in the mix. It's about second guessing, hating on each other, and trying to make people look bad on either side of the coin. It's now about attcking and second guessing MSM,bloggers and Indy journalists.It's about pointing out each other's mistakes. (and there were mistakes galore made during this case on all sides: anon, media, town supporters, anon supporters, and hell I made quite a few, but what does it matter this was never about any of us.)<br /><br />People have lost their minds over this case finally, and it's become a pathetic shit show.</div>
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