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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)