I’ve been to a few of these groups, but I’ve never met the leader of the group who is an electrician, so I can’t say whether or not I’ve been impressed with his group yet. I’m sure I will soon.
Ive seen the group online before to see if it can be described as having a group of just four. Apparently not.
The group that Ive seen live before is called the Interstate Battery Group 24. This group is about five members, and they’ve been running their own group for about a year now. The group is very diverse in terms of both age and experience. Everyone has a different level of knowledge about cell phones, computers, and how to use them. Many are young college graduates who work in the tech industry.
The group has a rather unusual modus operandi. They communicate using text messaging. I guess their slogan is “I’ve got my own cell phone. Now you can too.
The group is fairly secretive, and their members are rarely seen outside of their group. In fact, Ive seen just one person from their group since they started. Ive also seen only two members since Ive begun researching this group.
To put it bluntly, the group is a well organized, multi-state group of hackers. They are not necessarily involved in any criminal activity, although they do have some nefarious ties. Some may have been involved in the past with other criminal organizations, but they were more likely working in some non-violent, non-terrorist capacity. The group is most active in New Mexico, and Ive only seen them there.
The group is run by a man named Mark S. Karras, who is a veteran of the anti-terror movement in the early 1990s, and who currently runs a company called Interstate Batteries. He had been a member of the group for a few years before he left and is the only member who has been active for more than a year. Karras is a man who is very good with computers and very bad at human relationships.
We’ve seen Karras, his wife, and Mark’s father, as well as other members of the group. They each get a few hits a day and do a lot more than what we see them doing. It’s a big deal.
You can find out more about the group at his website and in the video for the track “The Other Side,” which starts with an interview with him and his wife. We have a feeling that this is the start of a really good time of year for the movement.
Karras is a man who, over the course of the last year, has been busy trying to get his wife and son out of the house. He has made a lot of progress, but his wife is still at the house and her son is still not there. It’s a slow process, but he does succeed at getting them out of the house and back into the world. It’s a pretty big deal.