Shameful Human of the Week: Andrew Auernheimer

Andrew Auernheimer, or Weev as he’s known online, is a crazy person. He was once profiled by the New York Times as part of a piece on 4chan’s finest. Auernheimer might, just might, hates Jews and the Federal Reserve. He is also possibly excited by the thought of mass-extermination as a solution for overpopulation. At the very least, he pretends to journalists to be a mega-rich hacker. There’s plenty there to qualify as Shameful Human of the Week.

Now this professional troll and neckbeard aficionado has landed himself in jail for drug possession. Conveniently enough, Weev was kinda-probably under investigation by the FBI following that iPad security breach you may have heard about recently.

Andrew, of Goatse Security (yup), played a vital role in uncovering an AT&T security issue which allowed iPad owners’ email addresses to be exposed.

I can’t help but wonder if this professional troll got a little too into character. It’s one thing to torture members of LiveJournal, and quite another to fuck with major corporations while under the influence of illicit substances. Maybe this is all part of the plan, and Weev did all of this to get his ugly face plastered all over the internet as punishment to the rest of us. In any case, I wish him luck trolling his fellow prisoners.

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