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Malicious Life

The Man Who Went To War With Anonymous - And Lost

Malicious Life

Malicious Life

Technology

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Aaron Barr was en-signals intelligence officer specializing in analytics. As part of HBGary Federal, he came up with a plan to unmask the key leaders of Anonymous, the infamous hacker collective. People who worked with Aaron warned him that his data was sub-par, but the determined vet claimed he had a strong "gut feeling" that he was on the right track. It all blew up in his face on one fateful Superbowl Sunday.



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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Ryan Levy, welcome to Cyberism's malicious life. Back when you were in school, did you ever get assigned a group project, then end up doing

0:44.3

all of the work?

0:46.3

Among the vast troves of stolen documents published to Wikileaks, there's a PowerPoint

0:52.3

about Wikileaks itself, titled The Wikileaks Threat.

0:56.3

It details what the organization is and what makes it so powerful, with an emphasis on details

1:02.4

that don't paint it in the best light. Like Juliana Sanchez's alleged sex crimes, his

1:08.1

minion supporters, and that it's quote, not in a healthy position right now.

1:13.7

After a dozen slides, the presentation turns to what can be done to take Wikileaks down.

1:19.7

Suggestions include, quote, a media campaign to push the radical and reckless nature of

1:25.2

Wikileaks activities, sustain pressure. Does nothing for the fanatics but creates concern and doubt among moderates.

1:33.3

Feed the fuel between the feuding groups.

1:35.3

Disinformation.

1:36.3

Create messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization.

1:42.3

Submit fake documents and then call out the error.

1:46.0

Cyber attacks against the infrastructure to get data on document submitters.

1:51.1

This would kill the project.

1:53.3

End quote.

1:54.8

The presentation was co-authored by three government technology contractors,

2:00.0

H.B. Gary Federal, Barico Technologies,

2:03.0

and Peter Thiel's Palantir. But after researching this episode, it just seems so obvious

2:09.2

that all the work in this group project was done by Aaron Barr.

2:24.4

Bars a handsome guy.

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