Tweet Time Histogram

I’ve figured out an easy way to get at interesting data. First I fire up the tweet nabber written in ruby, then run this cheap piece of crap and extract only time data from tweets pulled.

After getting the time data, I open the *.csv in Minitab and create a histogram with it. I then have the frequency with which a person tweets over 3k tweets by time, so I can approximate when they’re most active throughout the day based on my relative time zone.

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Dear my “brother” Sabu

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Dear my "brother" Sabu.

Greetings from the real world. You know, where cause and consequence
reign free and mighty.  I'll send you a postcard sometime. Anyway... How
is being a human bidet for the FBI treating you? The very people you
taught the young and impressionable to hate.  I heard you now have a job
as a security consultant? That sounds fun. Life is looking pretty cosy
for you currently. Hey, talking of cosy; It's Jeremy Hammonds birthday
soon, January the 8th. I was considering sending him book or something
because, from experience, jail isn't too cosy and he could do with
things to do to pass the time. After all, 10 years is a hell of a stint
for jail, paedophiles and rapists get less.

Do you remember Jeremy at all? He's one of the people you set up and
sold out to save yourself. But enough about Jeremy, let's talk about you
Hector. I can tell you love talking about good old Sabu lately after
all.

I must admit that after the initial sting at the realisation of what you
did over our time spent communicating, I haven't thought about you much.
I feel a strong sense of injustice over what happened and the way things
went, but as a general rule it's a case of 'out of sight, out of mind'.
But then you started popping up on my time line - 'Sabu has attended
VICE as a VIP.' ' Sabu is doing an interview for CBS news.' 'Sabu speaks
about his days of hacking for CNET.'  You get the point.

So I watch, and I have to be honest, even though you did what you did I
was still kind of half expecting a show of remorse or even an acceptance
for what you did. Something, anything. But it was like wishing from
blood from a stone. You tried to rationalise what you did and you
outright lied. You flaunt yourself on TV making yourself out to be some
kind of modern day hero, asking who will guard the guards and various
other bullshit. Let's not forget Hector, we had to endure your bullshit
for a long time and we know exactly what you are.

Remember the time Jake and Mustafa wanted to walk away? You knew Jake
was young as you had spoken to him numerous times via voice chat. It was
too much and they didn't want to be a part of it any more. But Big-Bad
Sabu came out and you raged at them in IRC. I asked you to back off them
but you wouldn't, and so Jake and Mustafa stayed around longer than they
wanted and got deeper than they had ever intended. You actively pulled
children back into a world of crime to continue something they didn't
even want to do. You are a bully and a criminal and the only person who
was caught who hasn't paid a sufficient price for what you did. You were
the worst of all of us. The knowledge  you lacked in technical ability
you made up for in manipulation and a big loud mouth with the ability to
coax people into doing things. Using your online persona and charismatic
ways to adjust peoples view on things to what you were trying to spin at
the time. Pure peer pressure. Nobody, especially the children you
dragged in, could say no to you or you would attempt to scare them. 

You were caught but instead of taking responsibility, you bent over and
let the FBI take turns at riding you out. "Mastermind" (I laugh every
time.) you are not, but a manipulating conductor of targets and
(admittedly) persuasive and entirely convincing social engineer you are.  
Jeremy and I were mostly happy exploring and reporting exploits if you
remember correctly. Sure, we had some lulz along the way, but who's idea
was it to go for big targets for pure self gain? Credit cards, the
dumping of personal information, ruining of lives. This was all on the
Great Sabu. Is this what masterminding a group is? Just telling people
to be bigger shits than they need to be on the Internet but doing non of
it himself? Backing people into corners and claiming you had a hand in
any of it other than setting people up to do your dirty work.
The only thing you masterminded was your own freedom by coercing and
manipulating Jeremy and I into doing things you couldn't do. You
manufactured these scenarios and targets to make us look like bigger
threats than we ever were or would have been without your constant
pushing. Yes, we were able to do these things, but we had no intention
of doing so without you orchestrating a few targets and spinning some
crap reasons of why. Constantly giving us speeches of why we should do
these things and using our weakness of wanting to spread concerns about
security against us. You wanted us to flex our abilities in front of you
so you could log it and go crying back to the FBI in order for them to
fear us more than they feared you; you turned what we were doing into
something much more sinister so that they thought that apprehending us
was more in their interests than putting you in jail. All so you could
go back home and take selfies of yourself for the media.

If the authorities have anything to fear, it isn't our skills (although,
people should fix their shit. Seriously. For every ones sake.) it's
people like you who run their mouth and rile the impressionable up to a
point of anger, using your charismatic way of exciting people into a
false sense of revolution. Whilst all you care about is yourself and
your ulterior motives. We were interested in the way things work and our
want and our need to learn and penetrate so-called secure systems
clouded our judgement of your real intentions. I take full
responsibility for what I have done. I've served my time in jail, I was
tagged, I'm on probation, I have restrictions that hinder my general
progress towards a career but I have accepted the punishment - so if you
think that this is me trying to offshoot any blame, then don't. I know
what I've done. I actually feel most shame for some of the things I said
to people along the way and lives I effected more than anything. But you
have taken exactly ZERO responsibility for any of this.

So who are you Hector? 'Legendary hacker' ? 'leader of anonymous and
Lulzsec' ? You would have functioned better as a cult leader. Pushing,
pressuring and preying on younger and smarter people than yourself and
running them into the ground. If all you did was relay information for
the FBI and steal credit card details (which you didn't even do. You got
us to do it for you.) then what is your purpose anyway? Since most of
the words you spun us were under influence of the FBI you couldn't have
meant any of it considering you were just trying to get us to do things
to report. You don't care about movements or activism or rights, because
you try sell out anybody who does. You know a few good tricks but as a
general rule your hacking know-how is quite limited. So who are you
Hector Xavier Monsegur and why are you on TV? Because I spent quite a
while getting to know you, and all I see is a coward and a fraud.

"I would stay away from anonymous" says ANONYMOUSabu who riled up
thousands to hate authorities and even tried to incite violence towards
them.

"It was too much publicity" says the person whose main focus was to talk
shit on twitter.

"They knew my weakness was my kids" says the man who I continuously
warned to back away from all of this and never come back, for your kids
sake. I tried to protect those kids way before you even tried to use
them as a reason for saving yourself and betraying your friends. I
wouldn't blame you for choosing your children over your friends if it
saved them from going into the system, any sane person would - but I do
blame you for putting crime before your children in the first place. It
should have never come down to that decision to begin with and you know
I told you this countless times. Spinning your kids as a reason for
being a coward is idiotic and false and makes you look desperate to try
rationalise what you did.

'helped intercept attacks and share them with the government' - attacks
that YOU initially thought up, so you didn't prevent anything, you just
suggested something and when we spoke about it you relayed what
information we gathered and you put an end to it and avoided nearly 30
years in prison? Wow. You certainly are an American hero, a (what was it
you said?) "inspiration" to people. I, for one, can't wait to teach my
children to set my friends up and help the FBI entrap. A true role model
to all.

"it wasn't a situation where I identified anybody. I didn't point my
fingers at anybody." -  I'll let the FBI handle this one:
"monsegur also provided crucial and detailed information about the
formation, organisation, hierarchy and membership of these hacking
groups, as well as specific information about their planning and
execution of many major cyber attacks, including the specific roles of
his co-conspirators in committing those crimes."
"Monsegur assists law enforcement in identifying and locating lulzsec
members and affiliates. In addition to this crucial historical
information, Monsegur proactively cooperated with ongoing Government
investigations. Working sometimes literally around the clock, at the
direction of the law enforcement. Monsegur engages his co-conspirators
in online chats and were critical to confirming their identities and
whereabouts."
So the FBI were wrong? In that case surely you can go join Jeremy in
jail as because snitching on your 'brothers' is the only reason you're
at home eating doughnuts right now.

I won't babble on any more because but I will ask you, respectfully, to
stop talking so much shit and own up to something (preferably something
that you actually did and not somebody else. Claiming responsibility to
make yourself looked more skilled than you are is just strange Hector.)
You're on TV giggling like a little school girl about how you used to
hack free AOL Internet as a child as Jeremys talent rots away in jail by
your hand.

Oh, before I forget and obviously completely unrelated - what is the
legal age of sexual consent over there? 18? How old did you think I was?
16? You weren't the only one who kept logs Hector.
Be a decent human for once in your life and find that hole to crawl back
into instead of rubbing what you did in peoples faces.

Yours respectfully,
Your "brother" Ryan.

(@APT1337)
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Same Shit, Different Day

I’ve walked away from the Internet almost entirely for nearly five months. I left it, in good conscience, in order to improve my life. I spent so much time and effort interfacing with this amazing invention that connects people. In effect I was able to form connections to others whom exist in social spheres I’m wholly extant from.

I was immediately filled with disgust. “th3j35t3r”, yellow ribbons, Bradley Manning hate, “Ed Snowden IS A TURRURIST!” babble bullshit… These are all opinions held by individuals in the fanbase of “information security”.

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Atheism is Neutral Ground

It’s time to address a situation that has needed attention for many years now. With our nation being a diverse melting pot of an immense number and variety of loons, we’re facing an ever-increasing amount of tension. Most of this tension seems to emanate from religious factions that maintain opposing belief systems.

If you were to drive around Dearborn, MI, you’d notice one thing; Your white, Christian, pasty ass would be the minority. Dearborn is the Islamic capital of the USA, just about. It has also been one of the most scrutinized cities by the Department of Homeland Security in their quest to profile and label every non-Christian in the USA.

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Return of the Asshat

The blog has been down a while. I know. I suck. I get that, I really do. My computer took a shit. CPU fan died. Those things are a bitch when they’re fixtured to the motherboard. I had to completely disassemble this piece of shit. At least I made it worth my while. Installed a 120mm radiator / water-block closed circuit water cooling system instead of a shitty typical fan.

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“Trolling”

“Trolling”

Meh. “Trolling”. Yeah. No, grow up. It’s not trolling. It’s only offensive in how blatant and immature it is. Trolling is a art. This isn’t trolling, it’s emo attention-whoring.

Oh well. Maybe if more kid’s dads paid attention to them growing up we wouldn’t have so many irritating little shits running around begging for attention.

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A Message to All My MFC Friends, and Anyone Who Will Listen:

I know a lot of you have seen me going back and forth being upset and
posting absolutely insane rants at points, and a lot of you have heard
me telling stories about my infamous ex, drunkenly ranting about him in
my room on occasion, telling you to “Know your Heroes” and all these
things. But now I feel I owe you an explanation. 
I lost my virginity at 15, to a man named Deric Lostutter. That name
sound familiar to you? You may also know him as KYAnonymous, the so
called member of anonymous who brought much publicity to the
steubenville rape case and was then raided by the FBI and blown up by
the press for being some saviour for rape vicitims everywhere. Brad
Pitt’s movie studio supposedly bought the rights to make a movie about
his story in Rolling Stone, he was in esquire, all over the internet,
and all that would be so utterly interesting to me if he wasn’t a total
fraud.
 
I lost my virginity with his hand over my mouth, telling me it wouldn’t
always hurt like this, but to let him finish and I would be ok. I said
yes, but when I said no, he pushed down harder and ignored anyone my
struggles to remove him. Some may say that was rape. Some may say I
asked for it, especially because I dated him for another two years and
continued to fall back into old habits with him for nearly seven years
after that, But I know that no matter how you classify that, the things
he did were wrong. For two years he could call me up, bend me over and
send me on my way any time he wanted. He introduced me to the BDSM world
and became my Dom, and I his Sub, and eventual slave, (titles and all,
not that I was allowed to talk about it, mind you.) at 15 years old. He
cheated on me with no less than 14 different girls,  some younger, some
older, and I am sure there are more that I never even knew about.
 
he is a scum bag. I have heard and witnessed so many things that he has
done to other women over the years. Disgusting things. And I have kept
silent for so long, getting a snide comment in here or there where I
could.
 
But yesterday, after posting one of my usual pointed arguments about his
flip flopping on political and social view, and his manipulation of his
“fans” he retaliated. He sent his family and friends to harass me,
insult me my child my family, threatened very pointedly to expose my cam
site to the public, and when I didn’t back down, he followed through. 
 
on his public facebook page, with nearly 6,000 followers, he posted my
full real name, alone with my camming twitter, and a message to his
followers to go defend him. Unfortunately for me, though he deleted that
post, it was shared across facebook and also screen shot and posted on
twitter.
 
thankfully I did not get the trolls I expected, and I have had so many
people defending me, supporting me, and it has lead me to come to this
conclusion. I am done hiding what he did to me.
 
The man is disgusting. And he may never actually pay for his crimes by
the laws standards, But I am tired of hiding the things he did to me,
and other girls have started coming forward as well telling me stories
of the things he did to them as well.
 
I also want to apologize to all of you. I keep you in the dark about a
lot of my personal life. and I am very private about so many things. But
I’m done disappearing. I’m done hiding and I’m really done living my
life in fear of what the world will think of me. So please help me
spread the word. Know your heroes. this man is a fraud, an abuser, and a
liar, and though you can commend his public actions, he should be
stopped from leaching off the fame of a rape victim any longer and put
back into his place of shame.
 
below are a couple articles about him, on BOTH sides, so you don’t think
I’m just trying to make you believe I’m a victim. I am not a victim. I
have an incredible life and I have grown so much since all the things he
did to me. But I also think you all can see the truth as I do.
 
this is the rolling stone Article from the height of his fame:
 
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/anonymous-vs-steubenville-20131127
 
This is an article by Don Carpenter, a Journalist who has been posting
the other side of things since this all started (though deric fervently
tries to refute despite his lawyers warnings to lay low):
 
http://www.mobilebroadcastnews.com/NewsRoom/Don-Carpenter/Deric-LostutterKy-Anonymous-Arrested-and-Caught-Lying-Again
 
I really hope you all support me, and help spread the word about this
man. And thank you all for being there for me through a lot of this,
even if you didn’t know it was going on.

Reblogged from: http://awkwardsexnsuch.tumblr.com/post/90387408121/a-message-to-all-my-mfc-friends-and-anyone-who-will

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