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We Are Anonymous Paperback – 15 Aug. 2013

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In January 2012, the hacker collective Anonymous brought down the FBI website in response to planned American laws against internet piracy. In 2011, LulzSec, a sister organisation, broke into and blocked computer systems at VISA, Mastercard and PayPal. The groups have infiltrated the networks of totalitarian governments in Libya and Tunisia. They have attacked the CIA and NATO. But instead of being sanctimonious and secretive, these cyber activists are flippant and taunting, never hesitating to mock those they've outsmarted. Today, governments, big businesses and social activists are waking up to the true power of the internet, and how it can be manipulated.

This is the story of a hive mind, with many hackers across the globe connected to slice through security systems and escape untraced. Through the stories of four key members, We Are Anonymous offers a gripping, adrenalin-fuelled narrative drawing upon extensive research, and hundreds of conversations with the hackers themselves. By coming to know them - their backgrounds, families, motivations - we come to know the human side of their virtual exploits, showing exactly why they're so passionate about disrupting the internet's frontiers.

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528 pages
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William Heinemann
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15 Aug. 2013
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13.5 x 3.7 x 21.6 cm
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043402208X
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978-0434022083
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A lively, startling book that reads as ‘The Social Network’ for group hackers. ― New York Times

An incredible story. -- Jon Stewart ― The Daily Show

A masterpiece of shoe-leather journalism, a fast-paced, richly detailed account of the group's beginnings, various schisms and most spectacular attacks. ― The Daily

A remarkable inside account of the hacker movement. ― New York Magazine

Spellbinding account of mischief and mayhem ... With all the makings of a fast-paced espionage thriller, Olson...meticulously and impartially recreates the operations of Anonymous and LulzSec. ― Publishers Weekly

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Parmy Olson is a writer with Forbes magazine. She lives in San Francisco. We Are Anonymous is her first book.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Heinemann (15 Aug. 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 043402208X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0434022083
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.5 x 3.7 x 21.6 cm

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Jonathan Limb

Well written, thoroughly enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 23 September 2013

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Before I begin this review I think it is important to note that cyber-crime and the internet underworld is something that I have always found fascinating and I have a reasonable amount of technical knowledge. This book may not be for everyone.

I loved reading this e-book, I (excuse the cliche) couldn't put it down. It is well-written, well-paced, well-researched and well-explained where necessary providing you know your ISP from your URL. This is not a book for technophobes but then I do not think it would be one to hold their interest in the first place. The "characters" all of whom are real-life people and their multiple online personas and identities are well (I am lead to believe) accurately rendered. I found it remarkable how close I had in fact come to some of the activities taking place within the book and could perhaps have found myself in a similar situation had I taken a different path.

The tension that builds throughout the book is palpable despite the fact that deep in your heart (if you aren't already familiar with the story) you know where things will inevitably lead.

I would whole-heartedly recommend this book to anyone with an interest of the "recent" history of the internet especially some of its seedier climes.

I only wish there could be a sequel (but that would mean wishing calamity on the lives of numerous individuals and I am not quite that sadistic)

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Margaret Foster

I expected a book about and organisation and found a hoard of kids.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 August 2015

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I found this book interesting. Without being hysterical or engaging in moral panic, this book introduces some of the more notorious and talented people involved in Anonymous at the time. It treats both the hackers and their victims with even handedness. On the one hand It highlights the complacency of the cyber industries, the absolute paranoid over reaction of some law enforcement agencies and a gleeful press while on the other hand treating the people involved in cyber mischief as human beings with feelings of their own. This is the strength of this book. Those involved are people not perpetrators. The book does not condone or minimise the damage done by internet imps but it does explain what they do and why they do it in real terms. It lack of hysteria or moral judgement takes the heat out of a vexing issue and allows for real contemplation of what is going on and why. Victim stories are told with truth and honesty. The cyber bully is not let off the hook. It does get a bit hard to keep track of the threads at times because of the vastness of the subject but II would recommend this book as a good introduction to cyber bullying, crime and the cyber imps who are at times adorable and horrible at the same moment, just like real people. It goes behind and beyond the typical rabble rousing press.

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Paul A.

eye opening

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 January 2015

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A really good read and an engaging book. Eye opening without being too techie and gives a very good overview of anonymous, the cliques and the darker under Belly that is around us all the time in the modern world.
A great perspective on what is really going on, bored kids and smart social engineers, manipulation, hive and mob mentality, going further into whether the laws and punishments really fit the crime.
A great intro to the world I want to know more about, not so much for myself, as for me to understand it better to share with my children, who face many challenges in the age of trolling, cyber bullying and just life 'online' in general.
Read it, you'll be stimulated and probably perturbed but that's a good thing, you need to know!

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Joshua W

Great book around the mind set of these groups

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 10 November 2020

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Finding this book really interesting as to how these groups were started, what drove them and how they did what they did.

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Mark

Insightful, educating and a little worrying...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 July 2017

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Very interesting insight into what has become an urban legend. Wasn't aware just how loose knit a community this was. More of a occasional coming together of minds than a traditional organisation. Frightening to think how susceptible computer system were back then, and even how that's not gone away even today...

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D-No

Great human story. Well researched and well written.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 20 November 2014

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Great book, and told in a very engaging manner. Parmy Olson has clearly done her research and writes with authority and provides a great deal of insight into the inner world of Anonymous and Lulzsec. What I really liked is that the author made this a story about the people, and essentially made it their story. This is a book about real people, who for a while were, literally, anonymous. Highly recommended.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 September 2013

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Interesting look at the early days of Anonymous, and how it evolved from a message board called 4Chan, to the hive mind that we are familiar with today. Also gives a lot of background history on the founders of Lulzsec, one of the spin-offs from the movement and an analysis of the characters involved. Must read for those wishing to gain an understanding of the history and development of Anonymous and Lulzsec/Antisec.

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Sean Cook

A deep dive into the lives of Anons

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 June 2019

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Well written, a fascinating look at the people who took on governments and organisations from the privacy of their bedrooms.

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