Public Face of Anonymous Leaves Group

Gunkerty Jeb writes "Barrett Brown, the reporter who became a media-friendly spokesperson for the shadowy hacking group Anonymous, says that he is quitting the group in the wake of a public feud that has broken out between different hacker factions within the loosely organized collective."

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Anonymous does not trust Mr. Brown

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And it should be obvious to anyone why. Mr. Brown is focused on the sort of activities designed to elicit the maximum response by the most powerful military and government in the world. He is focusing on finding corruption in the US government, in the US military.

This is either a tactical error of epic proportions, or it's part of a deliberate design by his FBI handlers to turn him into the ultimate informant. I'm not accusing or saying with any degree of certainty that Mr. Brown is an informant. I'm saying that when people deliberately provoke the government, or talk about revolution in the USA, usually the loudest public speaker talking about it is the biggest informant.

I believe Anonymous cut him out of the picture because Anonymous does not trust him anymore. He isn't a hacker, he's a journalist. He came into Anonymous from the perspective of an observer/journalist. If he isn't participating in the ops and does not have a reputation as being an actor, it makes a lot of sense for them to push him out. The attention of the media usually brings the attention of the feds.