going after online political protesters, 135
as leading client in market in zero-days, 210
on WikiLeaks most extensive leak, 118
US National Security Agency (NSA), 6, 7, 13, 14, 23, 84, 171, 302, 378–9, 384
US prosecution of hackers, compared to European prosecution of hackers, 388
US Senate, as target of LulzSec, 237
US Sentencing Commission, 367
Usenet, 38–9, 40, 41
USTR (Office of the US Trade Representative), 90, 96
V
V for Vendetta (film), 64, 271, 281
Vanguard Industries, 300–1
Vanity Fair, 184
Venezuela, 143
Vera, Ted, 212, 214, 220, 224
Verizon, 378
Violentacrez, 19
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), 144, 348
virtual sit-ins, 129, 135–6, 162, 253
Virus (Mike Nieves), 320–1
Visa, 126, 127, 141, 185, 193, 198
Vonnegut, Kurt, 122
W
Wales, Jimmy, 347
Walker, Scott, 277
Wall Street Journal, 6
Wallace, David Foster, 397
Walmart, 209
Wao, Oscar (character), 331
War Resisters League, 203
warez groups, 37
warrants, 190, 193, 194, 215, 287, 386
Warren, Samuel, 379
Washington Post, 184
Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, 261
“We Are All Very Anxious Now” (Plan C), 397
We Are Anonymous (Olson), 121
We Are Legion (documentary), 331
weapons of the geek vs. weapons of the weak, 107
Weapons of the Weak (Scott), 107
Weatherhead, Chris (Nerdo), 140, 303
#website channel, 72
weev, 20–9, 31, 32, 35, 36, 45, 46, 195, 248, 323
see also Auernheimer, Andrew (weev)
Weld, 261
“What Is LOIC?” (Gizmodo), 134
white hat hackers, 37, 215, 280, 285
white-knight ops, 372
WhyWeProtest, 63, 67, 72, 74, 76
WikiLeaks, 3, 81–5, 87, 88, 118–22, 123–4, 126, 127, 128, 130, 132, 138, 143, 147, 148, 149, 153, 157, 159, 185, 193, 206, 207–8, 213, 234, 265, 267, 282, 298, 312, 313, 326, 343, 345, 346, 349, 352, 366, 382
“The WikiLeaks Threat,” 207, 208, 210
Wikipedia, 346, 347
WikiSecrets (film), 265
Williams, Raymond, 432n40
WIN Magazine, 203
Winter, Jana, 356, 357, 365
Wired, 84, 147
Wired.com, 97, 181, 346
Wise Beard Man, 63, 71
Wolf, Asher, 181, 365, 366, 390
Wysopal, Chris, 262
w0rmer (Higinio O. Ochoa III), 305
X
Xetron, 210
The X Factor (TV show), 248, 252
Y
Yahoo! 67, 379
Yettie, 363–4
Yippies, 280
Your Anonymous News/@ YourAnonNews, 305, 373, 391
youthful idealism, 173
The Youth International Party Line, 280
YouTube, 1, 26, 244, 245, 363
Z
Zarathustra (character), 274–5
ZDNet, 288
zero-day/oh day, 158, 159, 210, 286
zines, 239, 254, 257, 279, 280, 297, 343
z-lined, 179
zombie flash mob, 70
Zuccotti Park (Liberty Square), 318, 333
Zuckerman, Ethan, 139
On the Typeface
This book is set in Sabon, a narrow Garamond-style book face designed in 1968 by the German typographer Jan Tschichold. Tschichold had been a leading voice of sans-serif modernist typography, particularly after the publication of his Die neue Typographie in 1928. As a result, the Nazis charged him with “cultural Bolshevism” and forced him to flee Germany for Switzerland.
Tschichold soon renounced modernism—comparing its stringent tenets to the “teachings of National Socialism and fascism”—and extolled the qualities of classical typography, exemplified in his design for Sabon, which he based on the Romain S. Augustin de Garamond in the 1592 Egenolff-Berner specimen sheet.
Sabon is named after the sixteenth-century French typefounder Jacques Sabon, a pupil of Claude Garamond and proprietor of the Egenolff foundry.
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