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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 18 2016, @09:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the rolled-the-dice dept.

[Ed note] Background taken from: The Intercept :

Barrett Brown, whose column received the 2016 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary, is an imprisoned U.S. journalist and the founder of Project PM, a crowd-sourced investigation into the cyber-industrial complex. In 2012, the FBI raided his house, and later that year Barrett was indicted on 12 federal charges relating to the 2011 Stratfor hack. The most controversial charge, linking to the hacked data, was dropped, but in 2015 Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison.

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I never really got a chance to play any pen-and-paper role-playing games growing up, so being thrown into a prison system in which such things as Dungeons and Dragons are relatively common constituted one of the silver linings of my 2012 arrest, along with not having to deal with an infestation of those little German roaches that had colonized my kitchen or having to see "World War Z."

As it happens, I'd actually learned about the prevalence of tabletop games among inmates a few months before my own incarceration, in the days after the FBI first raided both my apartment and my mother's home in March 2012 and seized laptops and papers without yet making an arrest. As they themselves noted in the search warrant, which the late Michael Hastings published at BuzzFeed, the focus of the investigation was my collaborative journalism outfit Project PM as well as echelon2.org, the online repository where we posted our ongoing findings on the still-mysterious "intelligence contracting" sector (which has since been moved here). The warrant listed HBGary Federal and Endgame Systems — two firms on which we'd focused particular attention — as topics for the FBI's search. This was revealing. A year prior, a raid by Anonymous on the servers of HBGary had revealed, among other things, the firm's leading role in a conspiracy by a consortium calling itself Team Themis to conduct an array of covert operations against WikiLeaks and even journalists like Glenn Greenwald, prompting a congressional inquiry that would ultimately be squashed by a Republican committee chairman.

Is playing an immersive fantasy game with people who have poor impulse control wise?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:30PM (#415754)

    "In any modern first-world country, solitary is pretty rare anyway"

    so, you're excluding the US in your first world group? cuz the feds put that 70+ year old national park occupier in solitary and he may still be in there.

  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Tuesday October 18 2016, @06:29PM

    by ledow (5567) on Tuesday October 18 2016, @06:29PM (#415780) Homepage

    Exactly correct.