Defending an Anonymous activist

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Commander

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X. Commander X, a prominent member of

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the activist group Anonymous. Commander

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X was the first activist I represented.

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Once he felt that I was his lawyer, he

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determined unilaterally that I was the

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lawyer for

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Anonymous. There are a number of

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encrypted chat type programs that I

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would prefer to use. I like to keep the

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NSA guessing with which method of

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communication I'm going to use with the

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idea that perhaps they can't monitor

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them all at once. When someone contacts

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me and I do not know who they are, it's

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the most beautiful mo purest form of

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conversation because there is absolutely

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no judgment on anything over the

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computer. Everyone's

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equal. One of the hardest things about

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representing anonymous is working around

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digital laws that were written decades

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ago. His main gripe is with the CFAA,

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the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The

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penalties are outrageous. It's a bad

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law. It's a broken law. It's not

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something that fits with today's

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technology. Sharing your Netflix

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password with your friends, that could

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be a federal crime. I hope that by

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helping activists, by pursuing these

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cases in the courts, by continuing to

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keep the issues alive in the media, that

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we can enact some degree of change. I

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hope it's not just a few of us crazies

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running through the wilderness.