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Gabriella Coleman: Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy (2014, Verso) 4 stars

Here is the ultimate book on the worldwide movement of hackers, pranksters, and activists that …

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5 stars

Anonymous is complex, ever changing, ever re defining ever contradicting. This book does a very good job of telling the story of the infamous yet heroic and sometimes irritating collective born out of the bowels of 4chan.
It chronicles its beginnings, it's first fights and its evolution and maturity (if you could call that anything Anon does).. There's also a really good reflection on its own betrayal, and how Anonymous very definition makes it fluid, it gets destroyed only to be reborn and reimagined by it's next iteration of participants.
I really enjoyed the read. I feel close to the ideals and political positions of this anarchic and iconoclastic movement. The book is very well researched and written in an engaging and fun way. It manages to pass along some very deep insights and questions on the very nature of hacking and the web, while being faithful to the lulz.
10/10 would doxx again.
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