Notorious hacker Andrew Auernheimer spent time in prison for exposing US multinational communications provider AT&T after it inadvertently posted iPad users’ personal information online. As a result,he spent time in prison in 2010 – some say unfairly. But the time has come for revenge.
Auernheimer now says that he will get revenge by exposing federal prosecutors with accounts on Ashley Madison, a dating site for married people who want to cheat.
Here is his e-mail to federal prosecutors from CNN:
He writes: “I have a message for you and federal prosecutors around the country: We are going to leak information to expose you all in the next days for the lying cheaters that you are.” He plans to expose two federal prosecutors in New Jersey and one in every other office around the United States.
“I used to make six figures,” he said. “Then I was kidnapped from my childhood home of Fayetteville, Arkansas, at gunpoint. My home was bulldozed. Three years of my life was stolen under false pretense. I was subject to beatings, false imprisonment, and extensive periods in solitary confinement, the latter of which is proven extensively in medical literature to cause permanent neurological damage. And now I am a destitute refugee with no home.”
Auernheimer was released from prison after years when civil rights lawyers won a court appeal. Since then, he has roamed the Middle East and Eastern Europe surviving on supporters’ donations in the digital currency Bitcoin.
The full letter:
An open letter to my old friends US Attorneys Paul Fishman and Zach Intrater.
It’s been over a year since I last asked for a fair and just amount of compensation for the three years of my life you stole under false pretense. I was kidnapped at gunpoint, wrongfully imprisoned, and tortured thanks to lies spewed by your office and you have yet to apologize and make amends for that. Since yesterday Matthew Keys was wrongfully found guilty on all counts (a conviction the DOJ obtained by perjuring themselves to falsely exaggerate the level of financial damages to elevate his charges to a felony in order to deny him a fair attempt at a misdemeanor charge) I have a message for you and federal prosecutors around the country: we are going to leak information to expose you all in the next days for the lying cheaters that you are.
The statements of prosecutors should be inviolate, and yet all around the country you have continually spewed nothing but lies in federal criminal cases. Your ilk are incapable of respecting the sanctity of the courts or the Constitution. Even the most sacred personal oath that a man can take is a rotten joke to people like you: a promise of commitment to one’s wife. We have located a number of US Attorneys within the Ashley Madison dataset using the resources of the taxpayer (offices, computers, paid time, and Internet connections) to attempt to cheat on their wives. Those so responsible in your office will be the first to be disclosed.
Guilty parties will be published one by one on gotnews.com — its editor, Chuck C. Johnson, is committed to bringing hypocritical adulterers amongst federal prosecutors to justice.
Personal phone calls, targeted ad campaigns on social media services, mass emails, and robocall campaigns will inform the following relations of prosecutors of their lying, cheating natures and theft of taxpayer money: spouses, children, children’s classmates, religious congregations, and the hometowns of them and their spouses. We will broadcast your indiscretions to the world for months.
Responsible parties currently employed by US Attorney Paul Fishman’s office will be disclosed first, and we will move through until we have covered each and every federal prosecutor’s office in America.
Ironically, as you wrongfully prosecute hackers across the planet for ludicrous CFAA technicalities, the act of using computers provided by the government for work purposes to shop for whores is in itself a CFAA violation. You have no just authority to prosecute laws your own workers violate. You continually present affronts to the Constitution. In US v. Auernheimer, my conviction was vacated because you violated my right to a trial in a proper venue. Now you continue to bring cases that violate that very same Constitutional right. Your current attempt to extradite Lauri Love from the United Kingdom is nothing but an unlawful kidnapping attempt. His indictment in the Third Circuit makes not even an a cursory attempt to establish venue and yet you want to rend him from his homeland? A similar unconstitutional, venue-violating case brought by your office lead to the suicide of Lance Moore– his case was brought out of the Third Circuit unlawfully in violation of his rights, and he, like me, had not committed a crime at all. Unlike me, he killed himself in despair, and his blood is on your hands.
There are not many hacktivists on the planet. We are a small tribe, and criminal harassment by federal prosecutors have lead to their deaths. Lance Moore, Jonathan James, Aaron Swartz are all dead thanks to false charges on behalf of the government. You have invalidated the Constitution under whose authority you were supposed to operate. You are showing the world that you are a problem, and that something must be done to put a stop to you all forever, one way or another.
The battleground will include the minds and social relations of your families. We are going to move forward with continual assaults of truthful information upon your work and home lives until you are brought to justice for the many clear acts of treason and sedition that you have committed.
Looking forward to seeing the divorce proceedings of treasonous federal slime.
Andrew “weev” Auernheimer
