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title: Andrew Auernheimer (weev)
description: "Not really a cypherpunk himself but an interesting player in the world the cypherpunks helped build: White supremacist hacker, father of modern trolling culture, cryptocurrency trader, printer mischief-maker"
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From wikipedia:

> Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer (/ˈɔːrənhaɪmər/ AW-rən-hy-mər; born September 1, 1985), best known by his pseudonym weev, is an American black hat hacker, Internet troll and neo-Nazi. He has identified himself using a variety of aliases to the media, although most sources correctly provide his first name as Andrew. Although Auernheimer has stated he is of Jewish descent, he is a member of an antisemitic network of computer hackers that wages cyber-attacks against universities.

## Links

* [Weev on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev)
* [weev on gab.ai](https://gab.ai/weev)
* [weev on LiveJournal.com](http://weev.livejournal.com/)
* 01-Oct-2014 DailyStormer.com (Web Archive) - [What I Learned from My Time in Prison](https://web.archive.org/web/20170723115752/http://www.dailystormer.com/what-i-learned-from-my-time-in-prison/) by Andrew Auernheimer
* 24-Mar-2016 Storify.com (Web Archive) - [A brief experiment in printing -- DailyStormer.com anglosphere propaganda push](https://web.archive.org/web/20170817175806/https://storify.com/weev/a-small-experiment-in) by Andrew Auernheimer