WRENCH. 🔧

Lesson — never bet against me. I said I knew who my money was on… and I was right.

Josh tracked Prime_Eight’s payment for hacking us, and it lead to a Blume employee. A Blume employee who is also a member of @#$!W#$@$#% New Dawn.

We got too close to something big… But you know what this means, right? It means we double our efforts and start digging deeper. They just painted a target on their backs by telling us they had something to hide.

So, a message for our corporate friends at Blume and our cultist friends at New Dawn:

DedSec’s servers were hacked. You know this. 

Prime_Eight was the culprit. You also know this.

Prime_Eight wiped out our research on the Illuminazis, on New Dawn, on everything.

The info we already sent to the news channels is out there. It’s all the other data we were gathering…. And we were so close. So close!

Prime_Eight doesn’t do this sort of #@$!$ on their own. They’re not that smart. Someone hired them. And I know who I’d put my money on…

SHUT DOWN

Bam! Did you see that? Lighting up the news stations up and down the coast! Filling the airwaves…. That’s freedom, my friends. Because truth will set you free. Just like it’s freed Oakland from TIDIS’ greedy grasp.

That’s right. The plant expansion has been closed down. There are a whole bunch of PR departments scrambling to save their bosses from getting tarred on this one. I do not envy them one bit.

Now, the plant has been shut down but they’re still on the hook for the community center. Win-win for Oakland. Back to normal. Well, normal for Oakland.

Thanks to my boy, Josh, for making the magic work and digging up the Health and Safety reports. Thanks to Ratio for getting us the hardcopy and driving the getaway car.

Thanks to Wrench for keeping us laughing, picking locks, and blowing s%$@ up so we could make our escape (not all of DedSec’s ops are digital, we had to do some actual breaking and entering on this one).

And thanks to you, the people. For giving us a reason to fight.

Booyah, Bitches!

We followed the money trail, and oh did we find a pile of !Q@#$! at the end!

Now, I know my way around cleaning up the almighty dollar, you might say. So I put out word with my usual contacts and got back a ton of info. You want to know who’s involved in funding the TIDIS Community Center? Who’s expecting big bucks from the TIDIS plant expansion? I have a list of politicos, CEOs, VCs, and a former police chief. That list is going out to a host of different news stations (not WKZ, since they’re in on the whole deal).

This is a two birds one stone kinda situation. Or a dozen birds, really. Most of these guys have been on our radar for a while, and now we have the cold, hard, proof to take ‘em down. Ratio’s buddy at Health & Safety came through with that environmental report (the real one).

Hah! Take that! Remember our buddy Johnny over at Blume? Racist jerk who tried to ruin a kid’s life because the boy dared to ask out his lily-white daughter? Helped a fellow Illuminazi stalk the man’s ex-wife? Yeah. Johnny just handed in his resignation.

Seems someone tipped off the ex-wife. Sent her copies of the photos and reports Johnny was getting on her. Plus print outs of emails in which Johnny foolishly incriminated himself (remember kids, nothing on the internet is secure).

Someone also deleted all his blackmail material. Including the police report he was using to force an innocent woman to remove her son from school and move. And you know, someone also made sure to tip off a scholarship committee looking for deserving young students from Oakland about this kid, so now he’s getting all his college applications and test fees covered. It’s not a huge amount of money, but it’s still money that can be hard to scrape up for a working class single parent.

I gotta say, Josh has been a life saver lately. Hell, the guy always has my back. (And I know you’re totally going to get embarrassed and not know what to say when you see this post, Josh, but all you have to do is keep being you. Okay?)

So, DedSec picked up Josh a few years ago. He was doing his own independent hacker thing, and we were worried he was gonna get caught. Now, Josh is really low key, and definitely on the socially awkward side. But once you know how to talk to him, bam. He’s amazing. He’s become my go to guy for the really tough stuff. Boy is thorough, methodical.

He’s had some of his own troubles thanks to ctOS and their tracking system. 

See, Josh is considered neuro-atypical. Special needs. Honestly, a ton of people in Silicon Valley fit that definition. But the way he got tagged in the system has been hurting his chances at good jobs. Probably because he’s not rich enough or connected enough to pay anybody off. Which is so far beyond stupid I don’t even have the words to express what a total waste that is. Any of these tech companies would be lucky to have him. Guess it’s DedSec’s benefit that they’re so short-sighted, but I hate that Josh gets the short end of the stick.

It’s another case where that stupid ctOS profiler has actually been counterproductive.

Yeah, you’ve read right. Wrench Junior not Wrench.

And you can do funny things like:

- Bump into DedSec members while they carry hot coffee.

- Bring DedSec members something they need and they’ll be like “Aw~ that’s so nice of you Wrench Junior!”.

- Of course you’ll be able to do anything that’s related to hacking.

- On a mission you distract enemies so that Wrench is able to… blow shit up or something.

- You can poke Wrench if he falls asleep.

- You make cute R2-D2 sounds.