Ag3nt47: Interview with his Friend
by Susan Basko
Ag3nt47, Larry Patterson, was arrested in California on a New Jersey Federal hacking complaint issued by the FBI. You can read about that HERE. This interview is with a person who appears to be a friend of Ag3nt47. That person's confidentiality is being maintained. Please remember that Ag3nt47 Larry Patterson is to be considered innocent unless he is proven guilty and that the media is not a court of law and that in a court, any person's statements would be cross-examined and countering evidence would be presented.
1) Are you a man or a woman?
I am a woman.
2) How do you know Larry P?
Let's just say Larry and I are friends.
3) For how long have you known Larry P?
Approximately 2 years.
4) In what context have you known him?
We were friends.
5) When was the last time you were in contact with Larry P?
Last month.
6) Have you ever met Larry P in person?
Yes, of course.
7) About how many times?
Many times.
8) When was the last time you met him in person?
Last month.
9) How old is Larry P?
He will be 27 in January.
10) What is his family situation?
His mother and father never married. Separated when he was 5 yrs old.
11) Are his parents alive?
Yes, both his mother and father are currently alive.
12) Does he have siblings?
Larry has 1 older brother and sister, both from the same mother, but different father than Larry’s.
13) With whom was he living at the time of his arrest, if you know?
He was living with his mother.
14) According to a news source, Larry hacked into, among other things, computers at Stanford and Harvard Universities. Do you have any idea why he would be doing that or what he would be looking for?
Larry hacked websites when he found they had vulnerability. There truly wasn't a "reason" or "purpose," but to gain internet notoriety.
He started as an Anon, however when Anonymous as a whole did not glorify Ag3nt47 for his "hacking" abilities, he soon grew tired of hacking for the cause and went independent.
15) Do you have any idea why Larry was hacking? If so, why?
To be brutally honest, Larry enjoyed the attention he received when he successfully hacked. Larry had nothing except his online persona. He vicariously lived through his twitter handle Ag3nt47.
16) Do you know how long he was hacking? How did he get started?
He has been hacking for about 2 years. He started by following anonymous and the attention they have been receiving. He purchased a few "hacking tools" and off he went finding vulnerabilities in websites.
17) In your opinion, is Larry an alcoholic?
No, Larry is not an alcoholic. He drinks like many people do. To be honest, I have only seen him drink once.
18) In your opinion, is he a drug abuser?
Larry would probably try anything someone offered him. But as far as being an abuser of drugs, no, he liked to make up a lot of stories.
19) In your opinion, does he have mental problems? If so, what kind?
This I know for a fact. Larry is diagnosed with PTSD and bi-polar disorder and has just started getting stabilized on his medication when he was arrested.
20) Is Larry P a military veteran?
No, Larry has never been in the military.
21) Did Larry P attend college or university? What is his education?
No, Larry has never attended college. He has his high school diploma.
22) Is Larry P, as far as you know, known to stalk women?
No, Larry is a lonely man and when a woman gives him attention, he thinks he falls in love immediately. But as far as being a stalker, no, he is the farthest thing from that.
He might be a little vindictive if he feels you have hurt him or his heart. But he doesn't have the capabilities of being a stalker.
23) Larry P is supposedly an ex-boyfriend of TruthIzSexy. Do you know if this is true?
TiS and Larry's relationship was all an E-relationship that consisted of a lot of tweeting, DM's, 2 voice conversations and a couple of emails back and forth with fake pictures of each other.
24) What was the context of their relationship, since they were on different continents?
Answered above.
25) Do you know the identity of S3rverexe?
No.
26) If you don't know, can you venture an educated guess?
A young kid that claims to know much about computer hacking, but doesn't prove that he truly can hack.
A kid that is jealous of the famous persona that Larry created and wants the same type of notoriety.
27) What do you think of the request for a Rule 20? (that is a plan to plead guilty)
Larry is doing what he feels best for himself and his mother. See, Larry is all his mother has. Larry's mom is a recent breast cancer survivor. She is still being closely monitored and Larry assisted her with her day to day activities.
28) Who is this person who claims to be Ag3nt47's little sis, @P0150N3AG13XD?
She is a 14 yr old fan of Ag3nt47 that got his attention because she is a little unstable and dramatic like himself.
29) Larry and many of his friends seem to be antiSemitic. What do you know about this?
Larry is the farthest from any type of racist or discriminative against any religion, creed, or nationality, for that matter. What Larry was is a person that liked attention and would pick up on the latest trend or topic on twitter and run with it for entertainment purposes.
30) Ag3nt47 refers to himself on Twitter as a "hacker god." Any opinions on this?
Ag3nt47 was a persona, a character that was created due to an individual that was the exact opposite in real life. Ag3nt47’s "true" hacking skills were limited and novice at most.
31) Ag3nt47 on Twitter makes many references to beating up other people. Any opinions on this? Is this chatter or real behavior?
That is another trait of the persona that was created to appeal to an audience.
32) Ag3nt47 on his Twitter posts a very angry tweet at the Catholic Pope telling him to fuck off. Does Larry have any Catholic background or do you know where his anger is from?
Larry is Catholic. He even often wears a rosary. Larry himself is an angry person that lashes out at no specific entity because he doesn't know where to correctly direct his pain or anger.
33) On Twitter, Ag3nt47 says he will have his 27th birthday in January and that most of his friends did not make it past 19. Do you know about his friends?
Larry has a very small circle. Larry also likes to be very dramatic and exaggerates constantly to gain sympathy and attention.
34) In Larry's recent tweets, he talks about needing to smoke, about using cocaine, about using xanax with vodka, about hitting a man over the head with a bottle, about buying a gun, etc. He sounds very out of control and very troubled. Is this the real him?
Larry does smoke cigarettes. That's about the extent of his smoking. Larry has a vivid and wild imagination. He also will take others’ situations and make them his own.
I agree, he is a troubled man. But not in the way most people see or read.
35) To your knowledge, did Larry make porn videos?
Larry has never nor will he ever make a porn video.
36) What do you think was Larry's purpose in hacking?
Larry's purpose in hacking was for mere entertainment and to gain internet notoriety.
37) Your replies indicate that you think most of the persona that Larry portrayed on Twitter is false, not really the way he is. Do you think he was actually hacking, or was that also part of the false portrayal he created?
Larry did all the dumps that he claimed. He "hacked" Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Monsanto, Rutgers, NASA, Mazda, Suzuki, Isuzu, BOSE, mopar etc. He performed SQLi and XSS injections to exploit these websites.
38) How do you know Larry actually performed those hacks?
I personally never "witnessed" Larry hacking. Larry released the dumps pertaining to those particular exploits most of which is on pastebin. He also admitted/claimed he was responsible.
Per the court docs, FBI traced it back to Larry's IP.
No one else has stepped up to claim responsibility for any of the exploits that Ag3nt47 leaked.
Lastly, Larry himself told me.