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That's the real deal with his "hack" releasing this data from his trolling security company. He knew it wasn't a hack but he also knew he could use it for his p

That's the real deal with his "hack" releasing this data from his trolling security company. He knew it wasn't a hack but he also knew he could use it for his pathological tolling. The criminal charges were more about how he presented everything and that he's a notorious public figure who denies being a nazi while being the sysadmin for Stormfront. AT&T wanted to mess with him, but the courts were super excited when they heard who they were going to try to convict. I am glad he won the case though. It could have been really problematic case law if he didn't. I'm also glad they tried to pin him to the wall for it. GNAA/Goatse Consulting (his "firm" that did the hacks. GNAA is a massively offensive racist and homophobic acronym.) and the thing he built with the help of many others felt like it was dominating tech culture's sense of humor for a while. The racist jokes were just for the sake of trolling.... right? Right? I think the deal with Weev is that everything he does is both serious and a joke. He does appear to be a nazi but if you try to stitch together his actual person it gets twisted really quickly. He has a personality disorder. I think a lot of people caught in his reality distortion field didn't quite get that playing around with "edgy" troll stuff normalizes things that eat up self and society. I definitely have seen a change in the casual dabbling with it since Charlottesville. While I have some sympathy for people that believed the lie that it's all jokes... I don't think Weev ever thought it was just jokes. He's extremely smart and fucking dangerous. I hope one day he gets a moment to reflect and use his brain for something that isn't being the fentanyl of meme pushers. EDIT: DO NOT GOOGLE GNAA or GOATSE AT WORK

CaptainZapp 8y ago
Goatse Consulting Seriously? Probhably most readers are too young to remember this "important" piece of internet lore. Let's just say it was the first, massively not safe for work web site.[1] Naming his company after that is quite fitting. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
- stuntkite 8y ago
  Goatse Security actually, but yeah. Him and people from GNAA called it a security firm. Sort of grey hat trolling for hire? I guess it could be considered the template for what got us Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, and Trump. I'm not sure if it's up anymore, but the GNAA public code repo used to be just full of interesting software solutions for mass griefing people. Here[0] is a DEFCON talk from a GNAA/lulsec affiliate talking about trolling as an art. I think the talk actually has some interesting things going on when looked at through the lens of what weaponized trolling has produced in the now. At one point someone in the audience asks the presenter to read his "funny" slides and it's a racist "joke" comic. He acts embarrassed and says "I don't believe this stuff." He does break down a few of their trolling tools from their repo that they were pretty proud of at the time. So the curious can scope that out if you don't have to browse to any of their official sites or do a risky google. This was before Facebook so it's mostly IRC tools and general troll culture commentary. They used the ATT dump, knowing it wasn’t really illegal to get hype to sell their services. I think it worked? Here's a pretty good piece on him with a reporter who followed him around during the first trial. I think it covers a lot of it[1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHqGV5WjS4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHqGV5WjS4w [1] https://medium.com/matter/the-martyrdom-of-weev-9e72da8a133d https://medium.com/matter/the-martyrdom-of-weev-9e72da8a133d EDIT: DO NOT GOOGLE GNAA or GOATSE AT WORK. Links should be mostly SFW. Obviously YMMV. It's content made by/about professional offensive assholes.
  - opless 8y ago
    GNAA is certainly NOT something you want to google at work.
    - stuntkite 8y ago
      Jesus. Definitely not. Sorry, I didn't want to type out the acronym. I should have put a NSFW. Many apologies, I added a warnings and more description so no one is caught off guard.
- isostatic 8y ago
  "Probhably most readers are too young" Sniff. I want my natille portman and grits :'(
  - CaptainZapp 8y ago
    So I get that you, for one, don't welcome our new goatse overlords?

CaptainZapp 8y ago

Goatse Consulting Seriously? Probhably most readers are too young to remember this "important" piece of internet lore. Let's just say it was the first, massively not safe for work web site.[1] Naming his company after that is quite fitting. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx

stuntkite 8y ago
Goatse Security actually, but yeah. Him and people from GNAA called it a security firm. Sort of grey hat trolling for hire? I guess it could be considered the template for what got us Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, and Trump. I'm not sure if it's up anymore, but the GNAA public code repo used to be just full of interesting software solutions for mass griefing people. Here[0] is a DEFCON talk from a GNAA/lulsec affiliate talking about trolling as an art. I think the talk actually has some interesting things going on when looked at through the lens of what weaponized trolling has produced in the now. At one point someone in the audience asks the presenter to read his "funny" slides and it's a racist "joke" comic. He acts embarrassed and says "I don't believe this stuff." He does break down a few of their trolling tools from their repo that they were pretty proud of at the time. So the curious can scope that out if you don't have to browse to any of their official sites or do a risky google. This was before Facebook so it's mostly IRC tools and general troll culture commentary. They used the ATT dump, knowing it wasn’t really illegal to get hype to sell their services. I think it worked? Here's a pretty good piece on him with a reporter who followed him around during the first trial. I think it covers a lot of it[1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHqGV5WjS4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHqGV5WjS4w [1] https://medium.com/matter/the-martyrdom-of-weev-9e72da8a133d https://medium.com/matter/the-martyrdom-of-weev-9e72da8a133d EDIT: DO NOT GOOGLE GNAA or GOATSE AT WORK. Links should be mostly SFW. Obviously YMMV. It's content made by/about professional offensive assholes.
- opless 8y ago
  GNAA is certainly NOT something you want to google at work.
  - stuntkite 8y ago
    Jesus. Definitely not. Sorry, I didn't want to type out the acronym. I should have put a NSFW. Many apologies, I added a warnings and more description so no one is caught off guard.
isostatic 8y ago
"Probhably most readers are too young" Sniff. I want my natille portman and grits :'(
- CaptainZapp 8y ago
  So I get that you, for one, don't welcome our new goatse overlords?