[NetBehaviour] Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous – Review

[marc garrett]

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous – Review

The definitive account of the rise of the hacktivist collective

By David Gilbert

“I spoke to a real-life friend today about Anonymous and he seems to 
have some vision of disembodied brains held in suspension, orbiting the 
Earth in battle satellites or something.”

This quote sums up the challenge facing Gabriella Coleman when she sat 
down to write Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of 
Anonymous.

However, Coleman is more qualified that virtually anyone else in the 
world to speak authoritatively about the group, having spent countless 
hours watching, talking to and meeting the people who make up this 
mysterious collective.

As an anthropologist, Coleman's interest was initially piqued by the 
emergence of an activist sensibility within Anonymous in 2008, but by 
the end of this book it is clear that Coleman had become personally 
invested in this movement and the people who wear its mask.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hacker-hoaxer-whistleblower-spy-many-faces-anonymous-review-1472581


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