When you're the so-called face of Anonymous, a lot of your life gets documented online, including, for Barrett Brown, video threats to an FBI agent and his subsequent arrest.
On Friday, hackers under the banner Anonymous released three years' worth of emails from the law firm representing a marine convicted in the 2005 Haditha massacre in Iraq, which presents a fresh question of how anybody will ever find anything worthwhile in all that.
After canceling and resurrecting Operation Cartel (twice), Anonymous now says they're redirecting their efforts towards corruption in the Mexican government.
After one of their members held hostage was released, Anonymous is redirecting Operation Cartel away from the Zetas, but Barrett Brown says he's armed and ready for battle.
Anonymous's chain-smoking collaborator Barrett Brown insists that the previously cancelled Operation Cartel is most definitely a "Go!" And the whole danger of getting people killed? That's old hat for the hacktivists.
Barrett Brown tells Ars Technica why he left and what his plans are for the future
The "hackitivist" group is defending itself against a dubious leak
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