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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

by this behavior any longer.” If the message was ignored, Westboro would “meet with the vicious retaliatory arm of Anonymous.” The letter ended with the “We are Anonymous, We are Legion” slogan. The first day, no one noticed the letter. The next day, however, someone from #Philosoraptors asked if anyone knew where it had come from

My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

by Barrett Brown  · 8 Jul 2024  · 332pp  · 110,397 words

masses of the body politic. Your choice of methods, your hypocrisy, the general artlessness of your organization have sounded its death knell … Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. Within twenty-four hours of being posted, the video had received a hundred thousand views

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman  · 24 Feb 2015  · 677pp  · 206,548 words

notable example is Anonymous, a self-described leaderless organization whose members have become recognizable in public for wearing Guy Fawkes masks. The group’s motto, “We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us,” manifests its organizational ethos: “The corrupt fear us. The honest support us. The heroic join

This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

by Andy Greenberg  · 12 Sep 2012  · 461pp  · 125,845 words

mankind—for the laughs—we shall expel you from the Internet and systematically dismantle the Church of Scientology in its present form. . . . Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. The video received 4.5 million views on YouTube, and was followed by close to

honey. Did you think the bees would not defend it? Well here we are. You’ve angered the hive, and now you are being stung. . . . We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us—always. Just who pulled off the epic hack remains unclear. But one hacker named Sabu

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

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

and hostile as they often are. If you want another name for your opponent, then call us Legion, for we are many. Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. Thus began Project Chanology, kick-started by anonymous users of 4chan and other chan-style

suppression of a powerful, criminal, fascist regime. It is left to Anonymous. The Church has been declared fair game. It will be dismantled and destroyed. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not Forget. This is only the beginning. Expect us. Anonymous continued harassing the Church of Scientology websites through the

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 23 May 2016  · 743pp  · 201,651 words

, it is a mark of protest against established powers. An influential group of hacker activists, or ‘hacktivists’, uses the Twitter account @AnonymousWiki. Their motto is: We are Anonymous We are Legion We do not forgive We do not forget Expect us. Parmy Olson, in her book We Are Anonymous, points out that ‘we are Legion’ derives

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid

document listed in the leak included the diplomatic passport of a U.S. State Department official. The authors signed off with the usual Anonymous formula, “We are Anonymous, We are Legion, We do not forgive, We do not forget,” adding “Greetz to our Fellaz in Ukraine, Greetz to all Anons and Lulz.” Five days later, another

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

contrasting with the sepia-tinted globe behind it. The video ends with a motto intended to send chills down the spine of any internet user. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. And finally, as the screen fades to black: Expect us. When ISIS rocketed to digital prominence, it

Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World

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

body politic,’ the narrator warned, shortly before ending in the group’s well-known sign off. ‘You have nowhere to hide because we are everywhere … We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.’ The video became known as ‘the video that made Anonymous’.27 It had more than

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement

by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky  · 11 Jun 2012  · 537pp  · 99,778 words

people who wear them. The mask means more than just anonymity, it is strength in numbers. In one of their calling-card phrases, Anonymous say: ‘We are Anonymous, We are legion.’ It answers a human need to sometimes be one of many, not just a ‘self’. In anonymity, people can hope to escape the exhausting egoism

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace

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

Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know

by P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman  · 3 Jan 2014  · 587pp  · 117,894 words

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

by Lawrence Wright  · 17 Jan 2013  · 684pp  · 173,622 words

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson  · 8 Mar 2022  · 574pp  · 148,233 words

Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression

by Geoff Cox and Alex McLean  · 9 Nov 2012

Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War

by P. W. Singer and August Cole  · 28 Jun 2015  · 537pp  · 149,628 words