[streetnigga]

US Chamber of Commerce is indeed a facade for it's individual components, the businesses within. Nothing secret about it. No levers of power, just persons driving involvement and direction of the lobby group. It is rather nasty seeing their solicitation of work with companies having national security clearance, CIA/military ties, aimed at journalists/activists like Glenn Greenwald or bank protestors. I'm sorry if you see colorful language used to describe the fuckwad of conflict of interests as conspiratorial ramblings, but I actually don't think you do. I think you are bored.

This method of belittling peoples out the side of your digital mouth is detrimental most of the time. Rah rah tptacek you are the master of this here at HN, have fun with that.

[tptacek]

Can you find a way to work Monsanto and Nickelback into this story?

[streetnigga]

I will ignore you continuing to be a prick, and instead provide further details upon the topic you are clearly emotive about. Thinking it such "gold." From the now dead Michael Hastings:

"Barrett Brown, another investigative journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, among others publications, exposed the connections between the private contracting firm HB Gary (a government contracting firm that, incidentally, proposed a plan to spy on and ruin the reputation of the Guardian’s Greenwald) and who is currently sitting in a Texas prison on trumped up FBI charges regarding his legitimate reportorial inquiry into the political collective known sometimes as Anonymous[1]."

Is this something to insulting about when a journalist is referencing the situation and the players involved? Or just when I link to the material myself?

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/why-democrats-love-to-spy-...

[tptacek]

Yes, the Rolling Stone journalist whose car was taken over by NSA satellites and crashed because he was sticking up for the heroin addicted blogger-cum-journalist whose most important scoop publishing the credit card numbers of everyone who ever signed up for STRATFOR. Seriously, where's Hagbard Celine? Hail Eris!

[streetnigga]

Yes, because "NSA satellites" is exactly what I talking about. The best you can do to not acknowledge Hastings reporting being entirely contextual to what I have been saying is to make a slight about his death being a conspiracy?

That's pretty fucked up.

As for Barrett Brown, the entities at the top of the warrant's list were HBGary, Infragard, and NSA affiliate/botnet information using Endgame Systems[1]. You seem to conflate Brown with the person who hacked the firm and leaked the data. Brown was a person who reported on the contents and helped coordinate research on those companies the warrant names amongst others.

About Stratfor, court documents for Sabu the FBI snitch show that the leaked data was directed to an FBI server when the site was hacked and the data ex-filtrated. Instead of pinning the credit card information that was uploaded directly to the FBI as being disseminated by Brown (Hammond was the Stratfor hacker), perhaps you should ask how it was allowed to leave the FBI's control after the data landed on their forensically secure server[2].

But no, Mr Brown used drugs so of course that is what you latch onto as to diminish work done or waffle away from discussing this topic at all. Classic tptacek character attack. Relent on being such a dick, purposefully exaggerating/contorting the subjects as to dismiss them and perhaps we can discuss this topic, as so far you have just been making snotty comments.

[1] http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web05/2012/4/24/17/...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/07/was-ano...