Listen free for 30 days

  • We Are Anonymous

  • Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
  • Written by: Parmy Olson
  • Narrated by: Abby Craden
  • Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo + applicable taxes after 30 days. Cancel anytime.
We Are Anonymous cover art

We Are Anonymous

Written by: Parmy Olson
Narrated by: Abby Craden
Try for $0.00

$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $32.31

Buy Now for $32.31

Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Tax where applicable.

Publisher's Summary

We Are Anonymous is a thrilling, exclusive expose of the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec.

In late 2010, thousands of hacktivists joined a mass digital assault by Anonymous on the websites of VISA, MasterCard, and PayPal to protest their treatment of WikiLeaks. Splinter groups then infiltrated the networks of totalitarian governments in Libya and Tunisia, and an elite team of six people calling themselves LulzSec attacked the FBI, CIA, and Sony. They were flippant and taunting, grabbed headlines, and amassed more than a quarter of a million Twitter followers. The computer security world - and world at large - realized quickly that Anonymous and its splinter groups are something to treat with dead seriousness.

Through the stories of three key members, We Are Anonymous offers a gripping, adrenaline-fueled narrative in the style of The Accidental Billionaires, drawing upon hundreds of conversations with the members themselves, including exclusive interviews. By coming to know them - their childhoods, families, and personal demons - we come to know the human side of their virtual exploits, and why they're so passionate about disrupting the Internet's frontiers.

©2012 Parmy Olson (P)2012 Hacette Audio

More from the same

What listeners say about We Are Anonymous

Average Customer Ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    9
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    7
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    7
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    2 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    2 out of 5 stars

Not an Insider Perspective

From the title, I assumed this would be a inside perspective with actual interviews, but it's basically just chat logs read in weird voices with lots of weird speculation about the hackers gender. The writing is heavily biased and the narrator really ran with that, trying to make the hackers sound like villians. We hear sob stories of those who worked against anonymous but the personal lives of actual members are only mentioned as means for them to be manipulated by authorities. The author concludes the book by stating that anonymous are just a bunch of immature boys with psychological problems... 14 hrs of poor journalism for a poor thesis

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!