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Parmy olson on internet hacker group anonymous youtube. Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. Inside the hacker world of lulzsec which has drawn some strong responses from the anonymous movement. Opinions on stuff like that are so fluid, said william, maybe because were young and impressionable. Prior to writing it, olson had spent a year researching anonymous. A thrilling, exclusive expose of the hacker collectives anonymous and lulzsec. Parmy olson is a journalist for forbes magazine known for her work on the hacktivist movement. Parmy olson goes behind the headlines and into the. Ai, robotics and the digital transformation of european business. Up until that point, anonymous was a brand of internet users known for pranking. She previously wrote about technology for forbes in london and in san francisco. Through the stories of four key members, we are anonymous offers a gripping, adrenalinfuelled narrative drawing upon extensive research, and hundreds of conversations with the hackers themselves.
Trying to understand that phenomena is quite the task and parmy olson, in her 2012 book, we are anonymous. Inside the hacker world of lulzsec, anonymous, and the global cyber insurgency, which looks in detail. The interview includes discussion on the groups membership makeup, motivation. In january 2012, the hacker collective anonymous brought down the fbi website in response to planned american laws against internet piracy. Parmy olsons book we are anonymous delves into the heart of antisec as a way to tell the tale of the anonymous collective. A thrilling, exclusive exposv of the hacker collectives anonymous and lulzsec. But it turns out, thats entirely the wrong way to go about telling the. In this book we learn how anonymous, widely seen by the rest of the world as an organized group of hackers was formed, how it emerged from chanology and 4chan and evolved into what it. Most of the real names and online nicknames used in this book are real, but a few are not. Parmy olson covers technology for the wall street journal in london. Discussion in news and current events started by anonymous, may 23, 2012.