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Gay Nigger Association of America
AbbreviationGNAA
FormationSeptember 11, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-09-11)[1]
TypeInternet Trolls
HeadquartersTarzana, Los Angeles[2]
President
weev[3]
WebsiteGNAA Corporate Website

The Gay Nigger Association of America, (more commonly known by the acronym GNAA) are a tightly-knit[4] group of anti-blogging trolls[5] who take their name from the 1992 Danish movie, Gayniggers from Outer Space[2][5][6] responsible for several high profile internet trolls[7][8][9][10], as well as software products[11] and security releases[12]. The group maintains a wiki-based site[3] dedicated to commenting on notable internet events and parodying slashdot posts, as well as offering a SVN-based repository known as "Trollforge" for GNAA coding projects[13].

Members engage in such activities as flooding weblogs[5][14], producing shock sites[5][11] [15], prank-calling technical support telephone lines[16], protesting [17], IRC channel disruption[12][18][19][20], Proof of concept demonstrations[21], and allegedly "trolling" CNN[10]. These actions have occasionally interrupted the normal operation of popular websites such as Slashdot, even forcing some websites to shut down temporarily. As such, targeted communities generally consider GNAA crapfloods to be a serious matter and frequently respond with technological and social anti-trolling measures such as moderation systems to limit future disruption[4].

Despite the name, the group claims that it promotes neither racism nor homophobia[5]. Its aim is to sow disruption on the internet[5].

New media researcher Andrew Lih has noted on the groups activities within Wikipedia, claiming that by adhering to every rule, they can use the system against itself[22].

Relationship with Apple Inc.

In July 2004, two GNAA members submitted leaked screenshots of the forthcoming operating system Mac OS X v10.4 to the popular Apple Macintosh news website MacRumors, which read "With WWDC just days away, the first Tiger information and screenshots appears to have been leaked. According to sources, Apple will reportedly provide developers with a Mac OS X 10.4 Preview copy at WWDC on Monday. The screenshots provided reportedly come from this upcoming developer preview[7]." Later, when accusations were raised that the images were fabricated, the GNAA released a press release which claimed that the screenshots were genuine, and that they "trolled" the Apple community[23].

In June 2005, the GNAA claimed[24] to have created a Mac OS X Tiger release for Intel x86 processors which caught media attention from various sources.[25][26][27] The next day, the supposed leak made front page news on Slashdot[28] and was mentioned on the G4 show Attack of the Show[citation needed]. The DVD image released onto BitTorrent merely booted an image of hello.jpg instead of the leaked operating system as some had thought[29], and the remaining several gigabytes of space on the DVD was filled with a repetition of the text "GNAAGNAA..."[citation needed].

Goatse Security

Goatse Security are a group of white hat[30] information security professionals founded by the GNAA[31][32][33] and made up of GNAA members[34]. Goatse Security attracted mainstream media attention for their disclosure of 114,000 email addresses[35][31][36] registered to Apple iPad devices for early adopters of Apple's 3G iPad service, causing Apple Inc.'s stock price to drop[37]. The data was aggregated from AT&T's servers by feeding a publicly available script with HTTP requests containing randomly generated ICC-IDs, which would then return the associated email address.

This incident culminated in the arrest of GNAA President Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer on unrelated drug charges found during an FBI search[38].

See Also

References

  1. ^ SCO acquires a new business partner - GNAA. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-07.
  2. ^ a b About GNAA. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  3. ^ a b GNAA unveils new wiki-based corporate website GNAA. Accessed 2010-08-27.
  4. ^ a b Second Life's "Patriotic Nigras" deconstructed. BoingBoing. Accessed 2010-08-27.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Dean, Jodi (2010). Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Retrieved 2010-08-27. {{cite conference}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ Jodi Dean's presentation to the Cultural Studies Association in Tuscon. Jodi Dean. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  7. ^ a b Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) Screenshots?. MacRumors. Accessed 2010-08-27.
  8. ^ MacInDell Part Quatre - The Ruby Goldmine. Gizmodo. Accessed 2010-08-27.
  9. ^ TWiT 44: Hacked TWiT. Accessed 2010-08-27
  10. ^ a b GNAA Trolled CNN GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  11. ^ a b Last Measure. Last Measure. Accessed 2010-08-27
  12. ^ a b Firefox-based attack wreaks havoc on IRC users The Register. Accessed 2010-08-27
  13. ^ Trollforge GNAA. Accessed 2010-08-27.
  14. ^ Julia Allison's Blog Is Hacked. Gawker. Accessed 2010-08-27.
  15. ^ UNDER THE BRIDGE. Monash University. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  16. ^ Extreme Humor. Sepia Mutiny Accessed 2010-08-27.
  17. ^ Twitter Protest. Asylum. Access 2010-08-28
  18. ^ The Liberation of Freenode, Part 13. Patrick McFarland. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  19. ^ Firefox Bug Used to Harass Entire IRC Network. Softpedia. Accessed 2010-08-27
  20. ^ Bug in Firefox used by IRC network. Techworld. Accessed 2010-08-31.
  21. ^ Very Ugly Bug at BarackObama.com. TechCrunch. Accessed 2010-08-27.
  22. ^ Lih, Andrew (17 Mar 2009). The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia. Cambridge, UK: Hyperion. pp. 170–171. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  23. ^ GNAA Leaks Info about Apple's Next Major OS. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  24. ^ GNAA Announces Immediate Release of OSX_x86_YHBT. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  25. ^ Report: Apple Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hits piracy sites. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  26. ^ OS X for x86 already in the wild?. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  27. ^ Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs. Wired. Accessed 2010-09-08.
  28. ^ Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for x86 Leaked?. Slashdot. Accessed 2010-09-07.
  29. ^ Jumping on the bandwagon: OS X on x86! OMG!. TUAW. Accessed 2010-09-07.
  30. ^ Apple's iPad security breach reveals vulnerability of mobile devices. Washington Post. Accessed 2010-09-02.
  31. ^ a b Meet One of the Hackers Who Exposed the iPad Security Leak. The Atlantic. Accessed 2010-08-31.
  32. ^ Security flaw that exposes owners ipad investigated by the FBI. SAPO. Accessed 2010-08-31.
  33. ^ Ao entrar em site de operadora, era possível obter e-mails de usuários.. Rede Globo. Accessed 2010-08-31.
  34. ^ Goatse Security Members. Goatsec. Accessed 2010-08-31.
  35. ^ Apple's iPad Breach Raises Alarms. NPR. Accessed 2010-09-06.
  36. ^ Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners Exposed. Gawker. Accessed 2010-08-31.
  37. ^ Apple Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:AAPL) June 01, 2010-June 17, 2010. Google Inc. Accessed 2010-09-07.
  38. ^ Hacker in AT&T-iPad security case arrested on drug charges. CNET. Accessed 2010-09-01.


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