{"id":187797,"date":"2011-03-02T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/02\/anonymous-gets-scalp-of-hbgary-fedral-ceo\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T01:04:00","slug":"anonymous-gets-scalp-of-hbgary-fedral-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/02\/anonymous-gets-scalp-of-hbgary-fedral-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Gets Scalp of HBGary Fedral CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img24.imageshack.us\/img24\/5595\/12876239352361105626046.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img24.imageshack.us\/img24\/5595\/12876239352361105626046.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Following revelations by Anonymous that HBGary Federal was developing a plan of Nixonian dirty tricks, with false identities, forged documents, and other disinformation, the CEO of HBGary Federal has <del>been fired<\/del> resigned:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Aaron Barr&#8217;s departure as CEO of HBGary Federal represented the latest twist for the company and its Sacramento affiliate, HBGary Inc. A spokeswoman for the Sacramento company confirmed the resignation.<\/p>\n<p>According to numerous reports, Barr&#8217;s company, which is based in Colorado and Washington, D.C., proposed conducting a disinformation campaign against critics of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The plan was presented to the chamber&#8217;s law firm, but the chamber says it wasn&#8217;t aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was aborted after the hacker group Anonymous stole tens of thousands of e-mails from both HBGary and HBGary Federal \u2013 and posted many of the messages on the Web.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And now Democratic members of Congress are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/02\/28\/AR2011022805810.html\">calling for an investigation of these activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there won&#8217;t be an investigation in the House.&nbsp; The Republicans are busy looking for a blue dress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following revelations by Anonymous that HBGary Federal was developing a plan of Nixonian dirty tricks, with false identities, forged documents, and other disinformation, the CEO of HBGary Federal has been fired resigned: Aaron Barr&#8217;s departure as CEO of HBGary Federal represented the latest twist for the company and its Sacramento affiliate, HBGary Inc. A spokeswoman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,998,970,1052,969,997,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-congress","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-evil","category-internet","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}