An US security company named HBGarry, which have large US government contracts on combating cyber attacks and is spoken a lot about for using all sorts of (facist-like, dirty and biased) “illegal to all of us, but not illegal to people under the US government umbrella” methodology, recently claimed to the press that they had “infiltrated” the hacker collective Anonymous Operations, a collective that define themselves as

Fighting for your freedom online & in real world. Join the war against criminal establishments.

Which apparently was not only not true, but as obvious and predictable, was just another dirty attempt to gather press attention, and subsequently, as normal, more funds for themselves, funds which largely consist of people’s tax money.

I suppose they were not really expecting this sort of press attention, but as response to such a claim, in a matter of hours the Anonymous collective had not only entered their network, but also grabbed all of HBGarry’s  private emails, private data, product source code, and apparently also the source code for the so feared virus Stuxnet, meant to be under their possession as related on emails, but said to be hidden to anyone outside the corporation, specially the press, and exposed the lot to the internet.

Email's download screen at http://thepiratebay.org

A letter about the matter was shortly released after by Anonymous,

Greetings HBGary (a computer "security" company),

Your recent claims of "infiltrating" Anonymous amuse us, and so do your attempts at using Anonymous as a means to garner press attention for yourself. How's this for attention?

You brought this upon yourself. You've tried to bite at the Anonymous hand, and now the Anonymous hand is bitch-slapping you in the face. You expected a counter-attack in the form of a verbal braul (as you so eloquently put it in one of your private emails), but now you've received the full fury of Anonymous. We award you no points.

What you seem to have failed to realize is that, just because you have the title and general appearence of a "security" company, you're nothing compared to Anonymous. You have little to no security knowledge. Your business thrives off charging ridiclous prices for simple things like NMAPs, and you don't deserve praise or even recognition as security experts. And now you turn to Anonymous for fame and attention? You're a pathetic gathering of media-whoring money-grabbing sycophants who want to reel in business for your equally pathetic company.

Let us teach you a lesson you'll never forget: you don't mess with Anonymous. You especially don't mess with Anonymous simply because you want to jump on a trend for public attention, which Aaron Barr admitted to in the following email:

"But its not about them...its about our audience having the right impression of our capability and the competency of our research. Anonymous will do what every they can to discredit that. and they have the mic so to speak because they are on Al Jazeeera, ABC, CNN, etc. I am going to keep up the debate because I think it is good business but I will be smart about my public responses."

You've clearly overlooked something very obvious here: we are everyone and we are no one. If you swing a sword of malice into Anonymous' innards, we will simply engulf it. You cannot break us, you cannot harm us, even though you have clearly tried...

You think you've gathered full names and home addresses of the "higher-ups" of Anonymous? You haven't. You think Anonymous has a founder and various co-founders? False. You believe that you can sell the information you've found to the FBI? False. Now, why is this one false? We've seen your internal documents, all of them, and do you know what we did? We laughed. Most of the information you've "extracted" is publicly available via our IRC networks. The personal details of Anonymous "members" you think you've acquired are, quite simply, nonsense.

So why can't you sell this information to the FBI like you intended? Because we're going to give it to them for free. Your gloriously fallacious work can be a wonder for all to scour, as will all of your private emails (more than 44,000 beauties for the public to enjoy). Now as you're probably aware, Anonymous is quite serious when it comes to things like this, and usually we can elaborate gratuitously on our reasoning behind operations, but we will give you a simple explanation, because you seem like primitive people:

You have blindly charged into the Anonymous hive, a hive from which you've tried to steal honey. Did you think the bees would not defend it? Well here we are. You've angered the hive, and now you are being stung.

It would appear that security experts are not expertly secured.

We are Anonymous.
We are legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us - always.

Aaron Barr’s Twitter account was also hacked, his SSN number and private address exposed, and many, many messages added to it, as follows,

Oh and here’s ~50,000 HBGary emails!http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6156166/HBGary_leaked_emails#anonymous#leaks#hbgary Have a good one!

Row rrow fight the Feds! Anons of the world: we have your back. These corporate wankstains will never bring us down.

Today we taught everyone a lesson. When we actually decide to bite back against those who try to bring us down, we bite back hard.

We want Aaron Barr fired and to admit defeat publicly. We never want to hear from him again. Dispose of him.

HBGary leaked emails (download torrent) – TPB http://t.co/NtIORUC

Via IRC: <MGMX> Posting his SSN number was way the hell over the line though. << Anonymous finds the line and then crosses it.

HBGary should really be more worried about the fact that we’ve been spying on all of their internal communication for over two days.#secure

So we heard Aaron was bragging about us not having the latest version of his Anon documents, so we dun found it:http://ifile.it/uwde96y

Ted Vera’s Linkedin just got removed. To pay our respects, here’s a screencap of one of his private mails: http://i.imgur.com/CuBS2.png

Anon is currently working hard to compile a lovely document of all our favourite emails from within the torrent, stay tuned.

site defaced, twitter hacked, email taken…priceless.

Was it mentioned that Anonymous obtained source code of HBGary security products? No, well it is so. What a disaster.#GameOver

In the meanwhile, a new website was setup to make the contents of the e-mails public, under the domain anonleaks.ru, with more mirrors to come.

The site currently contains teasers of the e-mails, and Anonymous declared they are working an user interface for people to easily navigate through the e-mails.

After Wikileaks, this week’s Egypt revolution and now Algeria, the Internet seem to have really found its place – as a mass, real-time, live, non-censured communication tool for all. What, above it all, means freedom of speech, freedom of expression, at last.