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Dcommander x elf xx treefolk9/10/2023 This is provable insofar as the People's Liberation Front certainly exists, and Christopher Doyon is a real person. It's here that X got an order from the "Supreme Commander of the PLF," a man we know in the book only as Commander Adama, to become an Anonymous member. In X's words, his initial thoughts on Anonymous were that it was a "crazy ass science fiction cult" where people wore "stupid Guy Fawkes masks." In fact, he was apparently told to join Anonymous while he was serving as a "Commander" of a small cyber-focused militia called the People's Liberation Front (PLF), run out of a "dungeon" in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where "every square inch" of the walls were "plastered with concert posters (mostly Grateful Dead), protest fliers… and hand-drawn art, mostly political in nature." (Of course, this is all according to the author.) "For those wondering how Anonymous begins a major operation, it usually starts with righteous indignation bordering on group outrage."īehind the Mask covers a time period between 2008-2012 wherein X joins Anonymous, quickly rises to a position of influence in the decentralized organization, gets the attention of the FBI Cyber Division, and escapes the US on an underground railroad of his own design. But when you're Commander X, who has given interviews to major publications since escaping prosecution in the US and becoming a fugitive and who still tweets daily and taunts government agencies by writing messages on his timeline, such as "What will the FBI Cyber Crime Division do when there's no more Internet? Is Walmart hiring any security guards?" and "…if you want pigs to respect your protest, show up armed" then quite obviously the traditionally-guarded hacker/media relationship has gone out the window. It's arguably not smart to write a book like this, given the intense thirst from the FBI to capture Anonymous leaders. X's book is the antithesis of what we're used to from Anonymous it's personal, both braggadocious and self-deprecating, and through its first-person perspective provides insight into operations of Anonymous that will be completely alien to any non-hacker reader. While we are used to some sporadic voices from the hacktivist collective movement coming forward to the media, they are mostly heard through voice-scrambling filters in short videos announcing Anonymous operations, or from behind bars. So, as a symbol of his freedom, today X published his first book, Behind the Mask, and it's the first of its kind in terms of advancing the public record on Anonymous.
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