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Hacker. Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy : The Many Faces of Anonymous

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On July 29, 2007, an entity calling itself Anonymous— unknown, at the time, to all except the most erudite Internet denizens—uploaded a video to YouTube. A metallic, digital tone thrums as a headless suited man appears over a blank background. A male voice begins to speak through the interference: “Dear Fox News,” it intones. The news organization had recently devoted a segment entirely to a group they described as “the Internet Hate Machine”— a title the collective would subsequently adopt as a badge of honor.

But for a collective that revels in trickery and guile, to simply laugh and dismiss such an exposé would be to miss a great opportunity. And so, the disturbingly ponderous, down-pitched voice of Anonymous continues: “The name and nature of Anonymous has been ravaged, as if it were a whore in a back alley, and then placed on display for the public eye to behold. Allow me to say quite simply: you completely missed the point of who and what we are ... We are everyone and we are no one ... We are the face of chaos and the harbingers of judgment. We laugh at the face of tragedy. We mock those in pain. We ruin the lives of others simply because we can ... A man takes out his aggression on a cat, we laugh. Hundreds die in a plane crash, we laugh. We are the embodiment of humanity with no remorse, no caring, no love, and no sense of morality.” The video ends, “YOU ... HAVE NOW GOT ... OUR
ATTENTION.”

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London, New York : Verso., 2014

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English

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978-1-78168-583-9

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online resource

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Hoax
Hacking

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