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Former Anonymous Members Writing a Book About Anonymous

Adrian Chen 9/20/11 4:10pm



Two prominent Anonymous associates are shopping around .. http://www.observer.com/2011/09/anonymous-is-getting-a-book-proposal-being-shopped-around-to-publishers-this-week-not-anonymously/ .. a book detailing the exploits of the hacktivist group from the inside, according to the Observer .. http://www.observer.com/2011/09/anonymous-is-getting-a-book-proposal-being-shopped-around-to-publishers-this-week-not-anonymously/ . But will anyone want to read it?

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The 'Face' of Anonymous Steps Down



Barrett Brown, the man who assumed the role of Anonymous' spokesman, has stepped down, citing the PSN hack (OpSony) as an a reason for his… Read… http://gizmodo.com/5803736/the-face-of-anonymous-steps-down

One co-author, Barrett Brown (above, in a still from an interview with NBC News), is an ex-heroin junkie from Dallas, Texas. He was an Anonymous spokesman until quitting .. http://gizmodo.com/5803736/the-face-of-anonymous-steps-down .. over the direction the group was taking. The other author, Gregg Housh, is from Boston and became a de facto Anonymous spokesman because he appeared in a few news articles during Anonymous' anti-Scientology protests and journalists kept on calling him for comments.

I follow the exploits of Anonymous more closely than a sane person should, but I'm not sure even I would be interested in reading this book, tentatively titled Tales from Inside The Accidental Cyberwar. Anonymous is fascinating on a broad level, but most of the day-to-day details are as sexy as the intricacies of how an office drone manipulates an Excel spreadsheet . You hang out in IRC chat rooms at weird night hours, typing to people of unknown identity and questionable motives, with the weeks of typing punctuated, rarely, by one of the people you've been chatting with turning up in the papers, having been arrested by the Feds.

Housh told the Observer he wants the book to be a "page-turner". Maybe Anonymous members have been helicoptering around the world delivering USB drives full of secret FBI documents and we just don't know about it. We'll see!

http://gawker.com/5842222/former-anonymous-members-writing-a-book-about-anonymous

.. prompted by .. "[04:36] <+c0s> I am gregg housh. I am not anonymous, I have been talking to the press for years about this stuff." .. which is 4cm (1.6") down in "the bizarre chat log" .. http://pastebin.com/x69Akp5L .. hope some have seen by now Barrett Brown is in the chat log .. ok .. have just noticed the chat is dated Feb 7th, 2011, while this article is dated 9/20/11 .. some 7 months later ..

aside: Snowden hates metric, since it's easier that seems odd .. guess
basically that's because it's unfamiliar to him, a rather shallow approach.

ps: pouring rain again in Sydney .. just started anew ..

pss: thanks to the anonymous people, and ex, for the most interesting chat .. and to Penny, of course ..