Published on Aug 15, 2013
Abby
Martin talks in depth about the curious case of Barrett Brown, the
hacktivist/journalist who is facing 105 years in prison for posting a
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democracynow
Published on Jul 11, 2013
http://www.democracynow.org
- Journalist Barrett Brown spent his 300th day behind bars this week on
a range of charges filed after he used information obtained by the
hacker group Anonymous to report on the operations of private
intelligence firms. Brown faces 17 charges ranging from threatening an
FBI agent to credit card fraud for posting a link online to a document
that contained stolen credit card data. But according to his supporters,
Brown is being unfairly targeted for daring to investigate the highly
secretive world of private intelligence and military contractors. Using
information Anonymous took from the firm HBGary Federal, Brown helped
discover a secret plan to tarnish the reputations of WikiLeaks and
journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian. Brown similarly analyzed and
wrote about the millions of internal company emails from Stratfor
Global Intelligence that were leaked in 2011.We speak to Peter Ludlow, professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, whose article "The Strange Case of Barrett Brown" recently appeared in The Nation. "Considering that the person who carried out the actual Stratfor hack had several priors and is facing a maximum of 10 years, the inescapable conclusion is that the problem is not with the hack itself but with Brown's journalism," Ludlow argues. He adds that the case against Brown could suggest criminality "to even link to something or share a link with somebody."
Watch part 2 of this interview: http://youtu.be/rx7OeCO88ps
democracynow
Published on Jul 11, 2013
http://www.democracynow.org
- Journalist Barrett Brown spent his 300th day behind bars this week on
a range of charges filed after he used information obtained by the
hacker group Anonymous to report on the operations of private
intelligence firms. Brown faces 17 charges ranging from threatening an
FBI agent to credit card fraud for posting a link online to a document
that contained stolen credit card data. But according to his supporters,
Brown is being unfairly targeted for daring to investigate the highly
secretive world of private intelligence and military contractors. Using
information Anonymous took from the firm HBGary Federal, Brown helped
discover a secret plan to tarnish the reputations of WikiLeaks and
journalist Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian. Brown similarly analyzed and
wrote about the millions of internal company emails from Stratfor
Global Intelligence that were leaked in 2011.We speak to Peter Ludlow, professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, whose article "The Strange Case of Barrett Brown" recently appeared in The Nation. "Considering that the person who carried out the actual Stratfor hack had several priors and is facing a maximum of 10 years, the inescapable conclusion is that the problem is not with the hack itself but with Brown's journalism," Ludlow argues. He adds that the case against Brown could suggest criminality "to even link to something or share a link with somebody."
Watch part 1 of this interview: http://youtu.be/bvl0pWKaZ14
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