An Excerpt of We Are Anonymous: Gawker Gets Hacked | Threat Level | Wired.com
An excerpt from Parmy Olson's book We Are Anonymous, chronicling the attack on Gawker, which dared Anonymous to attack it. A self-described 16-year-old hacker named Kayla took the bait.
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