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Pros
Parmy olson's 2012 book, we are anonymous, is an apt guide to understanding the anonymous phenomenon. Olson gets the details right and gives a good sense about how the anonymous franchise operates.
An immersive look inside an incredibly immersive subculture. It beautifully details how they got started, what their motivations were.
She paints an image of the seedy underbelly of the internet that we need to know it exists. This is a great chapter in a huge debate that is just beginning over internet power.
Sabu - xavier deleon - leon (hector xavier montsegur) kayla - lol - lolspoon (ryan mark ackroyd) tflow (mustafa al-bassam) darren pwnsauce (darren martyn) elite hacker and the only lulsec crew member that did not get caught. For these folks, their ski... Read More
Supporters collaborate on an array of irc networks. A strength and a weakness of their organisation is their lack of… organisation. We are anonymous portrays the battle unfolding for control of the internet era as insurgent skills and techniques for c... Read More
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Quality
We are anonymous provides excellent insights into the the virtual world inhabited by those who might call themselves cyber insu... Read More
Although i am familiar with the space it wasnt overbearing
I missed most of these stories in the news but i think the depth of this book would make it appeal to people deeply familiar wi... Read More
Packaging/appearance
These people are actually the modern day freedom fighter and you can gather that information right off the bat from the reading
Now that thats out of the way
Competitiveness
Very excellent portrait of the modern world
Two of my nitpicks worth mentioning are1
You will see part of the underground world that you dont see everyday
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Obviously some details couldnt be known from the author i
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The people she interviews for this book are young and possess a new philosophy that could only exist at this time in history
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Being a computer scientist myself i also thought that olson deftly explains technical topics in general terms so that everyone can appreciate how and why various anonymous efforts were successful at disrupting corporate and government interests on the web
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I feel like the book itself is a window into their world a way to show their side of the story not the mainstream government controlled media’s standpoint
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I liked how the reading took you into the lives of individual members and didn’t just describe the hacker group as a whole it told their stories and where they came from
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After reading the first hundred or so pages you will discover there’s more to their story than how the media makes them look
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Mainstream news outlets paint a vague picture of anonymous as chaotic and a bunch of jobless trolls living in their parents basements
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These people are actually the modern day freedom fighter and you can gather that information right off the bat from the reading
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