let's get to some different stories i have to talk about here we talked
recently
the speaking of suicide about the suicide of reddit co-founder erin's
sorts and part of the context of that suicide was that he was being persecuted
for uh... taking uh... countless
journal articles academic journal articles through j store
and there were some who said that what he did what was not even illegal anymore
and some saying that what's going on here is overzealous prosecution even
though he had already basically
settled in the matter with m_i_t_ l_b_j_ store
in any case we now have anonymous getting involved on the internet
gathering on his anonymous some call it a hacker activist group
some call it a activist group that same thing some people just call it an honor
that's all it is
they have taken over the website of the u_s_ sentencing commission to as they
say avenge the death of aaron sorts
and uh... they put out a message would see which says in part an honors as
observed for some time now the trajectory of justice in the u_s_ is
growing concern
we've marked the departure of the system from the noble ideals in which it was
born in shrine we've seen the erosion of due process the dilution of
constitutional rights the usurpation of the rightful authority of courts by the
discretion or prosecutors
we have seen on the lies wielded lesson last uphold justice
and more and more to exercise control story in power
in the interest of oppression on personal give or personal gain
so uh...
the hackers are saying they've infiltrated a bunch of websites that
they've copied a ton of information that is secret they're threatening to make it
public and of by mid morning saturday the the website wind question here the
u_s_ sentencing commission website was already offline
the f_b_i_'s richard mc feely
admitted that they are investigating what's going on here that they're
considering it a criminal investigation and that that's that
what's your reaction to this guys i mean i've said many times i don't endorse
doing illegal stuff
and uh...
that's kind of as far as i've gone
and that being said there are times when different things happened that better
legal particularly when it comes to hacking
and i'm not going to go out there and advocate for the prosecution of anybody
that being said as far as i go is idon't endorse or suggest to people that they
do a legal stuff to make points
what's your reaction
i'll serve our would not suggest or endorsed illegal activity
but uh...
on marketing condemn it either are just don't care are think it's uh...
i think it's entertaining when now
anonymous does stuff like this
i'm all about transparency and uh... sometimes the only way you can get it
well let me before we conduct here come in from the time this all review two
very different emails that i got about this completely opposing views one
person said
don't make fork heroes adamant out of these anonymous guys doing information
to extort others even if it is the government is plain wrong
that's just like someone that doesn't like me hacking my computer
and threatening to spread my personal stuff all-around the counter-argument to
that was another email i got which is this is the right course of action
not taking guns against the government but presumably
doing it through what it what i guess i considered non-violent needs what do you
think that's on which side resonates more with you well i put the civil
disobedience in breaking civil laws as the of totally valid form of protest at
least uh... from a moral stand point
and even from a legal one in terms of the possible penalties but
criminal violations i think a are inherently very risky
and you have to know if you're going intuit as a protest movement
the reproductive could even single you out
um... in terms of trying to set appoint make a point by giving you a me even
more serious penalty then would be which is the kind of what was going to happen
potentially darren sorts which is why this is even all happening
although there was an analyst i heard on npr the other day on that i don't know
too much about the specifics of this case
but he was saying that you know what the government was investigating was
essentially what was indicated in this type of crime they want really singling
him out but i guess that's what the f_b_i_ is trying to find out now
uh... like i said i'm not gonna condemn
these actions
i'd be curious to see what they uncovered you don't care about
the means so much is your interested in the ends
uh... i guess you could say that but at the same time you don't endorse the
means either
right but it is non-violent and uh...
i don't see how anyone is going to get
physically hurt
i think this is going to become an issue that this idea increasingly when
everything goes through computers in the internet the aidid things that happened
through the internet are by definition non-violent crimes
that is good definitive question mark well look
uh... it's not like anonymous is is hacking that the bank accounts of the
westborough practice church and
and uh... taking all their funds whether personal funds i mean
they're just making information public
making some information uh...
taking out the public theater this is very controversial an organic get a lot
of views on this and going forward and not in this and
internet-related yes uh... a technology block are both going to be huge topics
i'm sure korea