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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman · 4 Nov 2014 · 457pp · 126,996 words

hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy the many faces of anonymous Gabriella Coleman The partial or total reproduction of this publication, in electronic form or otherwise, is consented to for noncommercial purposes, provided that the original copyright notice

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of this publication in exchange for financial consideration of any kind is prohibited without permission in writing from the publisher. First published by Verso 2014 © Gabriella Coleman 2014 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Verso UK

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a Rapist Who Blames His Victim,” boingboing.net, Aug. 4, 2013. 23. Hal Abelson, “The Lessons of Aaron Swartz” technologyreview.com, October 4, 2013. 24. Gabriella Coleman, “Gabriella Coleman’s Favorite News Stories of the Week,” techdirt.com, Oct. 12, 2013. 25. Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and James M Cook, “Birds of a

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? Gender and Ethnic Differences in Students’ Perception,” Computer Science Education 20(4) (2010): 301-316. 27. For more precise figures, see Christina Dunbar Hester and Gabriella Coleman, “Engendering Change? Gender Advocacy in Open Source,” June 26, 2012, last accessed July 9, 2014, available at http://culturedigitally.org/2012/06/engendering-change-gender

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

by E. Gabriella Coleman · 25 Nov 2012 · 398pp · 107,788 words

since the manuscript was prepared. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coleman, E. Gabriella, 1973– Coding freedom : the ethics and aesthetics of hacking / E. Gabriella Coleman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-691-14460-3 (hbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-691-14461-0 (pbk. : alk. paper

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) night of sleep, spending it instead in the company of peers, friends, alcohol, and of course computers. FIGURE 1.2. Debconf10, New York Photo: E. Gabriella Coleman. No respectable hacker/developer con could be called such without the ample presence of a robust network and hundreds of computers—the material collagen indisputably

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words

hours.) I craved those moments of absolute clarity and success, the moment when the program came to life, doing precisely what I asked it to. Gabriella Coleman is an anthropologist friend of mine who has closely studied hacker culture for years. As a writer herself, she noticed something interesting about the act

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law to criminalize the very act of writing code. “For them, the lawsuits were an attack on their right to tinker, to write code,” notes Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist who has closely studied hacker culture. “It was the moment when they really began to say that code was speech, and these laws

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, Cathy Pearl, Tim O’Reilly, Caroline Sinders, Heather Gold, Ian Bogost, Marie Hicks, Anil Dash, Robin Sloan, danah boyd, Bret Dawson, Evan Selinger, Gary Marcus, Gabriella Coleman, Greg Baugues, Holden Karau, Jessica Lam, Karla Starr, Mike Matas, Paul Ford, Ray Ozzie, Ross Goodwin, Scott Goodson, Zeynep Tufekci, Steve Silberman, Tim Omernick, Emily

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, “Open Source Licensing: What Every Technologist Should Know,” Opensource, September 21, 2017, accessed August 19, 2018, https://opensource.com/article/17/9/open-source-licensing; Gabriella Coleman, “Code Is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers,” Cultural Anthropology 24, no. 3 (2009): 420–54, accessed August

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: Sharon Begley, “Foiling the Clipper Chip,” Newsweek, June 12, 1994, accessed August 19, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/foiling-clipper-chip-188912. “cultural Dark Ages”: Gabriella Coleman, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013), 84. a $2,250,000 fine: “US v. ElcomSoft & Sklyarov FAQ

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Times, December 28, 2001, accessed August 19, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/technology/the-year-in-internet-law.html. “hacker cultural DNA”: Gabriella Coleman, “From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek,” Current Anthropology 58, no. S15 (February 2017), accessed August 19, 2018, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn · 3 Jun 2019 · 302pp · 85,877 words

denial-of-service attacks on PayPal and Visa, effectively commandeering the mantle of hacktivism. The story of Anonymous, told more fully in books by anthropologist Gabriella Coleman and journalist Parmy Olson, is fascinating and complex. It also owes a little of its culture to cDc. One of cDc’s good friends and

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relatively high-minded feats proved impossible to confirm. Author Olson described the Tunisian defacement as Monsegur’s work, citing him as the only source. Professor Gabriella Coleman, who was perceived as sympathetic, obtained chat logs and said Monsegur did not lead the team that performed the Tunisian defacing. In any case, even

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don’t tolerate defines you,” one of them said. New directors included the EFF’s Cindy Cohn, cryptography experts Bruce Schneier and Matt Blaze, and Gabriella Coleman, the anthropologist who chronicled Anonymous. After a few days, Barlow’s Freedom of the Press Foundation, which by now had added Snowden to its board

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vendor, we’re coming for you. Stop, rethink your life, kill your company, and be a better person. Otherwise, you’ll be seeing us soon.” Gabriella Coleman, the Anonymous chronicler teaching at McGill University, called the trend the birth of “public interest hacking,” and it is likely that at least some of

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current issues in security touched on here, including John Markoff, Phil Lapsley, Fred Kaplan, Ronald Deibert, Shane Harris, Andy Greenberg, Bruce Sterling, Steven Levy, and Gabriella Coleman. For those interested in learning more about the bulletin board era, I strongly recommend Jason Scott Sadofsky’s multipart documentary and his text file collection

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). His emails to the Cypherpunks list are available on the list archive, which tends to move around a bit online. “The story of Anonymous”: See Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy (Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2014); and Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous (New York: Back Bay Books, 2012). “I wrote a short 2011

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vendor, we’re coming for you”: The group posted its widely quoted warning and advice on Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/raw/Y1yf8kq0. “public interest hacking”: Gabriella Coleman, “The Public Interest Hack,” Limn, issue 8 (February 2017), https://limn.it/articles/the-public-interest-hack/. “articles about the leaked Panama Papers”: The work

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web

by Cole Stryker · 14 Jun 2011 · 226pp · 71,540 words

during real-life protests, and also grant them a perceived heroic flair. By the summer of 2008, Anonymous had grown beyond the confines of 4chan. Gabriella Coleman, an anthropologist and leading scholar specializing in the documentation of hacker culture, emphasizes the diversity of the group. She tells me that although there are

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when they try to shatter criticism and crush critics without mercy.” However, some critics have formed alliances with Anonymous when they agreed to stop DDoSing. Gabriella Coleman argues that Anonymous’s attacks have done some real good. Scientology has received so much negative attention that they’ve refrained from legal intimidation tactics

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seem to recruit or share Anonymous’s populist ideals. And unlike Anonymous, they’re a discreet group of skilled individuals which could conceivably be dismantled. Gabriella Coleman guesses that it’s impossible to know who is responsible for the Sony hack. It’s just impossible to verify, because there is a very

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hierarchy, social structure, pecking order, or organization. The press are always looking for a “boss”, but there isn’t one. The FBI are the same. Gabriella Coleman says that there must be a hierarchy, but it’s flat. Certain people have to run IRC channels, for instance. Anons are creating propaganda, even

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. Go Go Go! Anonymous has grown beyond 4chan, to the point where the media no longer mentions 4chan in reports on Anonymous. But according to Gabriella Coleman, the collective still uses 4chan as a recruiting tool. She says that there is an Anonymous that’s very much still into trolling and raiding

We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

by Parmy Olson · 5 Jun 2012 · 478pp · 149,810 words

, and they also seek to uphold genuine standards of legality and political activism. For other perspectives on Anonymous, keep an eye out for work by Gabriella Coleman, an academic who has been following Anonymous for several years, and a book on Anonymous by Gregg Housh and Barrett Brown, due out in 2012

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implication was, would bounce back from this. Jennifer Emick had a field day, pointing out on Twitter that Anonymous was now as good as dead. Gabriella Coleman, a Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University in Montreal, was one of the rare few to meet Sabu in person while

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who hit HBGary and then formed LulzSec, I told them their interviews would be contributing to a book I was writing about Anonymous. In addition, Gabriella Coleman, now Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, regularly provided me with a refreshing dose of clarity on who

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not want public attention focused on botnets because it could lead to heat from the authorities comes from a conversation with academic and Anonymous expert Gabriella Coleman. Details about Ryan and the use of his botnet on OpItaly, and about the manipulation of numbers, come from testimony by Topiary. Information about the

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. Details about the reaction in the Anonymous community to news that Sabu had been an informant for eight months were sourced from interviews with academic Gabriella Coleman, Jake Davis, and a handful of Anons, along with my observation of various Twitter feeds, blog posts, and comments on IRC channels frequented by Anonymous

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

by Scott J. Shapiro · 523pp · 154,042 words

.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/toc/dr-dobbs-1980.html#10(3): March 1985. For an excellent ethnography of the FOSS LINUX/Debian community, see Gabriella Coleman, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012). all bugs are shallow: Linus’s law was formulated by Eric

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Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (New York: Crown, 2018), 224. weaponize it: Hackers call this type of operation “hack-and-leak.” Gabriella Coleman has termed it a public interest hack: “a hack that will interest the public due to the hack and the data/documents.” Coleman claims that

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the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous innovated the public-interest hack around 2007: Gabriella Coleman, “The Public Interest Hack,” Limn, 2017, https://limn.it/articles/the-public-interest-hack. released the memo: “Joint Statement from the Department of Homeland Security

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, MA: MIT Press, 2018). Recent anthropological work on hackers focuses on social upcode, the norms and rules of the hacker/cybersecurity community. See, e.g., Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (London: Verso, 2014). Economic analysis: See, e.g., Ross Anderson, “Why Information Security Is Hard—An

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et al., “FBI Probes Hacking of Democratic Congressional Group,” Reuters, July 29, 2016. For the transition from hacker to security professional, see Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman, “Wearing Many Hats: The Rise of the Professional Security Hacker,” Data & Society, January 2022. See also Nicolas Auray and Danielle Kaminsky, “The Professionalisation Paths of

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp

as well. We are concerned here with situations where a person gains unauthorized access to a digital system for political ends. Such hacking, to borrow Gabriella Coleman’s artful phrase, will usually be ‘either in legally dubious waters or at the cusp of new legal meaning’.51 I call it political hacking

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Justice (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003), 319–23. 50. Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham City Jail (1963) in Political Thought, 85. 51. E. Gabriella Coleman, Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), 19. 52. Ibid. 53. Tom Simonite, ‘Pentagon Bot Battle Shows How Computers

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace

by Ronald J. Deibert · 13 May 2013 · 317pp · 98,745 words

? Why has Anonymous erupted now, and what does this phenomenon represent? One of the few to study this question in depth is McGill University anthropologist Gabriella Coleman (who admits that after years of analyzing Anonymous she still has trouble answering the question, “Who is Anonymous?”). Anonymous is not an organization, Coleman believes

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/yochai-benkler/hacks-of-valor. 9 One of the few to study this question in depth: Gabriella Coleman’s work offers a comprehensive history and analysis of Anonymous: Gabriella Coleman “Our Weirdness Is Free: The Logic of Anonymous – Online Army, Agent Chaos, and Seeker of Justice,” Triple Canopy (2012), http

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://canopycanopycanopy.com/15/our_weirdness_is_free; and “Peeking Behind the Curtain at Anonymous: Gabriella Coleman at TEDGlobal 2012,” TED Blog, June 27, 2012, http://blog.ted.com/2012/06/27/peeking-behind-the-curtain

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World

by James Ball · 19 Jul 2023 · 317pp · 87,048 words

of an academic researcher and became the start of what grew into years of anthropological study. Now a professor at the anthropology department at Harvard, Gabriella Coleman first came across my radar when I was an early-career journalist following Anonymous, 4chan and the hacktivist movements around it. Whenever you entered an