Episode 39 - Jeremy Hammond

Chicago activism, Anonymous, Scientology, Wikileaks, drug cartels, betrayal, and the military-industrial complex. This is the story of Jeremy Hammond.

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Created, Produced & Hosted by Keith Korneluk

Written & Researched by Jim Rowley

Edited, Mixed & Mastered by Greg Bernhard

Theme Song You Are Digital by Computerbandit

Sources:

We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Parmy Olson

The Hacktivist, Chicago Magazine 2007

The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State, Rolling Stone 2012

Meet Jeremy Hammond, Hacker, Chicago Tribune 2012 

But Can He Hack Prison?, Chicago Reader, 2005

Stakeout: How The FBI Tracked And Busted A Chicago Anon, Ars Technica 2012

Exclusive: For hacker Jeremy Hammond, prison is a temporary inconvenience, Al Jazeera America, 2014 

Hacker closing out prison sentence in Chicago halfway house, AP News 2020

Stratfor hacked by Anonymous Hackers for #AntiSec, The Hacker News 2011

Warriors of the Right Take to the Streets, The New York Times 2004

Scientologists Know Anonymous, Chicago Tribune 2008

War Breaks Out Between Hackers and Scientology -- There Can Be Only One, Wired 2008

In Chicago, Some Protest Olympic Bid, NPR 2009

LulzSec Releases Arizona Law Enforcement Data, Claims Retaliation For Immigration Law, Tech Crunch 2011

How an FBI informant orchestrated the Stratfor hack, Daily Dot 2014

A Conversation With Jeremy Hammond, American Political Prisoner Sentenced to 10 Years, The Huffington Post 2013 

IMPRISONED HACKTIVIST JEREMY HAMMOND BUMPED A GUARD WITH A DOOR — AND GOT THROWN IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, The Intercept 2018

Irish hacking suspect freed in wake of FBI sting, Boston Globe 2012

Lulzsec hacker group handed jail sentences, BBC 2013