Re: Open Letter to Lee Vartan, Assistant United States Attorney in regards to the Goatse Security iPad case.

[Andrew Auernheimer <gluttony () gmail com>]

In 2006 we began operations aganist Denise Paolucci, the self-appointed
Queen of the child pornographic fiction scene. Denise Paolucci had started
out small, as a producer of child pornographic fanfiction centered around
Harry Potter characters. Using her position as head of the abuse team at
Livejournal, she had appointed many producers of child pornographic fiction
as abuse volunteers. We started out by reporting clear content abuse
involving child sex to the Livejournal abuse team, but Denise's team would
bury it every time. We reported it to law enforcement repeatedly. Though
there have been multiple obscenity convictions obtained on the basis of
child pornographic literature, most law enforcement and federal prosecutors
do not want the challenge of handling a case with complex technical, speech
and cross-jurisdictional issues.

Inspired by a sermon I heard at a Mormon stake conference, I decided the
best solution was to whip up a group of highly moral mothers into a frenzy
and give them the contact information for most major ad networks. The idea
was that if blog hosters do not comply with takedown requests solely on the
basis of the presence of child pornography we would hit them where they
would be assured to respond: their advertisers.

A forceful insistence from management finally lead to Livejournal's change
in policy prohibiting the posting of child pornographic fiction and art.
Months later Denise was forced to resign. If you want to verify this chain
of events, check with ex-Six Apart employee and current SAY Media
stakeholder Mike Baehr-- a charming Jewish man who I connected with at the
company as he was one of the rare ones who really cared about the welfare of
children. I fed him the details of what I was doing step-by-step so he could
inform management and perhaps limit the financial damage Denise Paolucci's
negligence was causing them.

Denise Paolucci eventually runs off to form Dreamwidth, which, by our
estimates is the largest aggregation of child pornographic fiction content
and links to child pornographic fiction in the world.

Now we get to recent history, where I have externally verifiable evidence.
 As soon as I was elected the new leader of the GNAA in January, my only
major executive directive was to restart the war on child pornographic
fiction. I immediately had people make spreadsheets cataloguing child
pornographic fiction they found upon Denise Paolucci's service. Here's one I
personally made, and you should be able to verify the date of last editing
in the top right corner, 302 days ago in January:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkouGn11ZRNXdDhDUmg4QnI1Ym5VWnFQVUZJbzFTaXc&hl=en

We began to apply the same techniques to Denise Paolucci's new service,
Dreamwidth, cutting off their revenue stream from their credit card
processors:
http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/16590.html
http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/16338.html
http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/17858.html

As well as developing a set of dossiers on their development and support
volunteers:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AUouGn11ZRNXZGhuNWoyd18xMmZnaHFta2Nu&hl=en
and letting their employers, families and academic departments know exactly
what kind of things they're into.

Unfortunately, after this we got so busy doing innovative research into
Apple products that we forgot to keep this up. I think the GNAA will be back
to teaching these perverts a lesson any day now.

Beyond this, I can't tell you the number of chink and russki botnet CNCs
we've popped over the years. As soon as the federales give back our
illegally stolen machines, I'll give you all the evidence you want of it.
 We have years and years of good public service under our belts. Do you?

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Andrew Auernheimer <gluttony () gmail com>wrote:

> Troy,
>
> As with many of my critics, you insist on attempting to libel me and defame
> my character (clearly having an objection to my political views) instead of
> honestly debating the merits of my actions and the reality of my many
> well-received research contributions. I take ad hominem attacks like yours
> in stride with the civility and grace befitting of a Christian man, and urge
> you to think more critically before you say more things that
> will embarrass you in front of your peers.
>
> "You see no evidence of"
>
> Your implication that because you have not seen evidence of something it
> has not happened is fallacious. Regardless, I will enlighten you with some
> history of our anti-pedophile activity (with links to backdated posts
> pedophile posts detailing our successes against their infrastructure and
> payment systems, emails with full headers and evidence of ongoing pedophile
> activity), some of which predates the iPad incident by years.  You haven't
> seen any evidence of it because we, unlike many people, do not wear every
> bit of public service we do on our sleeve. We live in the spirit of Matthew
> 6:6.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Troy Canasta <kingofpainfosec () ymail com>wrote:
>
> > Clearly, the drugs got to you.
> >
> > Your decision down the right isn't squabbling with the government, but
> > whether you should accept a plea or convince a jury of your peers you're not
> > the villain you are.
> >
> > Like most criminals, you don't open up on merits of the case. I don't see
> > any evidence of vigilante activism against pedophiles, infraguard or
> > international organized crime. It sounds like textbook script kiddie
> > aggrandizement.
> >
> > This e-mail further enforces you are a thug and a nobody who hang out in a
> > chat room.
> >
> > You're not a vigilante organization, you're not a security clique, you're
> > an agitator. Get a job and start generating some legit GDP or go to college.
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* Andrew Auernheimer <gluttony () gmail com>
> > *To:* <snip>
> > *Cc:* <snip>
> > *Sent:* Wed, November 17, 2010 10:14:08 AM
> > *Subject:* [Full-disclosure] Open Letter to Lee Vartan, Assistant United
> > States Attorney in regards to the Goatse Security iPad case.
> >
> > Howdy Lee,
> >
> > I was originally outraged by your recent acts towards persecuting me and
> > my associates and extremely shaken up due to an unjust search which is based
> > upon multiple violations of the Fourth amendment. I believe that this
> > outrage, the emotional stress of being placed in solitary confinement for
> > multiple days without cause and previous harassment by the government lead
> > me to treat you less respectfully than I should, but as I was at the law
> > library (where I usually go for ethical guidance) I started reading some
> > Thomas Paine and experienced a revelation in how I should best proceed in
> > dealing with you and your actions.
> >
> > * “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy
> > from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent
> > that will reach to himself.*” - Thomas Paine, Dissertation on First
> > Principles of Government
> >
> > I’m writing you to help clarify this situation we continue to find
> > ourselves in. It appears that despite the obvious facts regarding the case
> > you continue to attempt prosecution on me. While information security
> > experts world wide (many of whom your department hire as expert witnesses),
> > average citizens, law analysis groups and consumer affairs groups continue
> > to support me; you seem to still be investigating me for some sort of
> > criminal act.
> >
> > While I am sure that you are probably under a lot of pressure to produce
> > something, given that you obtained a secret quasi-legal warrant, have a
> > large amount of negative publicity on your office and name, and a growing
> > number of people asking why you are doing this. I’m sure that this pressure
> > is beginning to wear on your personal and professional relationships, and as
> > I am and always have been a supporter of the United States Government, I’d
> > like to offer some friendly advice before irreparable damages from your
> > actions spread to the rest of the Department of Justice.
> >
> > There are a few options available to you at this point:
> >
> > 1. *Continue holding Grand Jury sessions and force an indictment.* I can
> > in no way advise this as it will cause harm to your professional reputation,
> > and force the Department of Justice towards a path of manufacturing
> > evidence. Social responsibility has always been at the core of everything we
> > do at Goatse Security, and this will be extraordinarily obvious at a trial.
> > Goatse has done large amounts of documented work in the areas of fighting
> > havens for pedophiles worldwide, protecting US infrastructure, and keeping
> > US citizens safe from Russian and Chinese organized crime. The DoJ has also
> > done this, and quite well at times, but we should work together for a common
> > goal, instead of fighting each other, and wasting our fiscal and legal
> > resources. We do not have a large advertising budget like the DoJ and FBI
> > have, and our publicity comes from citizen recognition of national
> > stewardship. I hope that you don’t see this as competition to your own great
> > work in the area, but we believe that we could both do better.
> >
> > 2. *Stop this investigation.* Given the vulnerable position you’ve placed
> > the DoJ in with these actions, you may be required to resign. I am very
> > sorry that this is the position you find yourself in, but there are many
> > great opportunities available for you in the private sector, and just
> > because you are not getting paid by the government does not mean that you
> > will not be able to help make the country a better, safer and healthier
> > place for us all to enjoy. We do volunteer work daily, and accomplish this
> > in our free time funded by our private sector work. We find this the most
> > kind healthy form of patriotism, as it not only allows one to help in areas
> > freely, but minimizes bureaucratic costs which we are all bear as brothers
> > and sisters in this great nation.
> >
> > 3. *Publicly accept assistance from Goatse Security.* While the smear
> > campaign your agency has launched against this group and me personally may
> > make this difficult, I’m sure that fully disclosing the rationale for it
> > would grant you and the DoJ forgiveness from the public, as well as from
> > myself. As always, we are more then happy to work with you hand in hand
> > towards a better country. If you are unable to do this for political
> > reasons, we understand, but we would not want you to dishonor your family
> > (probably the people who put you through law school) by making choices which
> > are wrong but popular. AT&T needs to be held accountable for their insecure
> > infrastructure as a public utility and we must defend the rights of
> > consumers, over the rights of shareholders.
> >
> > I pray for you Lee. I pray for you to see wisdom in your actions, and pray
> > for you to be guided towards righteousness. I advise you to discuss this
> > matter with your family, your friends, victims of crimes you have
> > prosecuted, and your teachers for they are the people who would have been
> > harmed had AT&T been allowed to silently bury their negligent endangerment
> > of United States infrastructure.
> >
> > Hugs and Courage To You,
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
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