and begged that they [[chris crocker|leave her company alone]]. Anonymous agreed to leave them alone if Penny fired Mr. Barr and [[Wimminz|got back in the kitchen]]. In addition, Penny said that she had yet to see the [[dox]] [[Faggot|Mr. Barr]] had on Anonymous and that everyone at his company was “[[RAGE|kind of pissed at him right now.]]”

What Really Happened?

Who the hell are [[faggots|“Q,” “Owen,” and “CommanderX?”]] What lead Aaron Barr into believing they were the [[the cancer that is killing b|brains behind Anonymous]]? [[Stalker|How did Mr. Barr find them]], and what evidence did he have against them? [[Google|What the fuck kind of research]] did he do to come up with such [[bullshit|false information]]? Mysteries such as these course through the rivers of the internet and may have gone unsolved, but thanks to the [[Over 9000|66,000 emails]] leaked from HBGary Federal’s computers, [[fact|they can be answered]].

Mr. Barr's spitball attack on [[Anonymous]] was part of a larger scheme to bring down [[Wikileaks]] by blackmailing journalists. Wikileaks claimed to have incriminating evidence which proved a major US bank was guilty of practicing corporate malfeasance, and on a completely unrelated matter Bank of America then hired http://www.hulu.com/watch/219097/the-colbert-report-corporate-hacker-tries-to-take-down-wikileaks" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mr. Barr to make these documents go away forever. Thus began Mr. Barr's campaign to bring down Wikileaks through cyber-attacks, falsified reports to damage Wikileaks' credibility, and blackmail against United States citizens. Or at least, that's what Mr. Barr would have done had Anonymous not completely thwarted http://www.cpreview.org/2011/03/operation-set-the-record-straight/" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">his jihad on the first amendment.

Mr. Barr believed that through the dangers of social networking, sensitive information could be gathered about people. A person might be smart enough to not list [[Dox|their home address or phone number or real name]], but their friends through [[Facebook]] or LinkedIn might accidentally leak that information through their profile. Using this theory, Mr. Barr believed that he could identify and dox dangerous [[Hackers_on_Steroids#Exposed_on_Fox_11_News|hackers]], and he would test this concept by exposing Anonymous. Mr. Barr’s scientific process for exposing Anonymous included lurking Anonymous [[IRC]] chat rooms, taking note of who was populating those chat rooms, and then use [[social networking]] sites to find their [[David|true identities]]. With this technique Mr. Barr tried to get close to the [[Leaderfag|“leaders”]] of Anonymous. With that said, “Q,” “Owen,” and “CommanderX” are just some [[Troll|trolls]] who hang out on the [[Anonops|AnonOps IRC]], and their true identities that Mr. Barr linked them with [[DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS|wasn't even accurate]]. [[Fail|Mystery solved]]. In addition, the emails also showed that Mr. Barr was retarded enough to think he could create internet [[Drama|drama]] between his company and Anonymous. It would lead to more publicity, make himself [[internet famous|e-famous]], and promote sales of HBGary Federal’s [[Norton|shitty security software]].

Aaron Barr isn't the only person to mistake a group of [[13 year old boys|13-year-old IRC nerds]] as being [[THE BEST|the best]] and [[retard|brightest]] of Anonymous. Shortly after the HBGary incident, [[Adrien Chen]] and [[Tubgirl|John Cook]] of [[Gawker]] fame published an article

, where they more or less did exactly what Aaron Barr did: [[LURK MOAR|lurk]] inside an IRC chat room, listen to a bunch of [[Internet Tough Guy|internet tough guys]] talk about how [[1337|leet]] they are, and then publish that they had infiltrated and identified Anonymous' leaders. This proves two things: 1.) Aaron Barr isn't alone in the [[KILL IT WITH FIRE|quest to bring down Anonymous]], and 2.) to avoid accusations of being the head of a [[terrorist]] organization one only has to [[Stop posting|stop using IRC]].

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IMPORTANT CONSUMER INFORMATION FROM ENCYCLOPEDIA DRAMATICA

Take-home action items

*never sign on a security company that knows nothing about security
* especially if they have powerpoint presentations with corporate bullshit leaked http://wikileaks.ch/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf]" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">* and/or get their corporate website defaced with propaganda FOR their declared enemies [https://archive.is/E505
* and/or 66,000 of their e-mails published on their own website and a torrent http://anonleaks.ch]" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">* and/or draw attention to their completely futile pet projects, like war on [[Anonymous|benefactors of mankind] http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks]" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">* and/or get battleplans leaked by targets that reveal [[Bullshit|"pushing independent journalists to dropping support"] http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201106/6798/Data-intelligence-firms-proposed-a-systematic-attack-against-WikiLeaks]" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">* all this is of particular importance for taxpayers if the given security company is a government contractor [http://circleof13.blogspot.com/2007/10/file-under-underappreciated-venerable.html

Anonymous honors the offer, or: from Aaron to AarOn

With trademark promptness and lambent ease, Anonymous followed up on AarOn Barr's [[Buttsecks|invitation]] the same night. AarOn, his company and other executives thereof got more than his mouthful of worth of sexuality:

* 66,000 corporate e-mails leaked http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110209/22340513034/leaked-hbgary-documents-show-plan-to-spread-wikileaks-propaganda-bofa-attack-glenn-greenwald.shtml]" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">* website content replaced by brief, but poetically written, Anonymous pamphlet [https://archive.is/E505
* professional [[Twitter|twitter-]] and linkedin accounts of several HBGary executives royally augmented with [[Truth|truth]] and [[Humor|humor]] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/02/07/businessinsider-dont-mess-with-hacker-group-anonymous-2011-2.DTL]" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">* bland, stilted, powerpoint presentations and memoranda for Wikileaks-disruption and Anonymous-trolling leaked [http://wikileaks.ch/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf
* backups erased http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price.ars]" class="text-indigo-600 dark:text-indigo-400 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">* documents sent to the FBI for free that AarOn had planned to [[Jews|sell to them for lots of money] (despite being worthless)

A major part of this totally lulzworthy series of extraordinary pwnage was played by an allegedly [[16 year old girl]] who social engineered the companies [[Mod|network admin]]. Because of the cyber terrorists he was up against and the security expert he is, Mr. Barr even had to unplug his router because they tried to "pop his box" and [[7 proxies|he knew just how to deal with such situations]]. Maybe this was the best way to avoid all the [[butthurt|shame]] he would face for the [[IRL|rest of his life now]].

In other words: this [[Orgy|orgy]] of [[Pwnage|pwnage]] would have been enough to please [[9000|legions]] of [[Asking for it|ass-itchy]] [[jews|executives]] for more than one Superbowl weekend. It even sucked Penny, the president of HBGary (HBGary Federal's inverstor), into the [[lollercoaster|powerplay]]. Penny begged for mercy in an anon-ops chat, imploring Anonymous to not leak tens of thousands of private e-mail messages -- [[FAIL|to no avail, of course]].

Nevertheless, in a particularly despicable [[Lie|gambit]], Penny tried to put all the blame on her minion AarOn. You can read the