Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer[2] (/ˈɔːrənhaɪmər/ aw-rən-hy-mər;[3] born September 1, 1985), also known by his pseudonym weev, is an American black hat[4] hacker, white nationalist, and Internet troll.[5][6][7] He has identified himself using a variety of aliases to the media, although most sources correctly provide his first name as Andrew.[7][8] weev is leader of an anti-semitic network of computer hackers that wages cyber-attacks against colleges. Several publications, including Gawker and The New York Times, have labeled weev as “legendary.”
Auernheimer claimed responsibility for the reclassification of many books on gay issues as pornography on Amazon’s services in April 2009.[11][12] Amazon said that Auernheimer was not responsible for the incident.[13] Even before the Amazon incident, several media publications profiled Auernheimer regarding his hacking and trolling activities, notably The New York Times, in which he claimed to be a member of a hacker group called “the organization,” making $10 million annually. He also claimed to be the owner of a Rolls-Royce Phantom.[10][14][15] After the Times story on Auernheimer was published, reporters sought out Auernheimer for commentary on hacking-related stories. Gawker published a story on the Sarah Palin email hacking incident and prominently featured Auernheimer’s comments in the title of the story.
In October 2014, Auernheimer published an article in the neo-Nazi blog The Daily Stormer in which he revealed himself to be a white nationalist. He displayed photographs of his tattoos, one in the shape of a Swastika. He described his prison time as “thousands of hours yelling the Eddas at the top of my lungs and scrawling runes on the concrete walls.”[46][47] In 2012, Auernheimer told Gawker that he had Jewish ancestry,[48] though in the same article, Auernheimer claimed to have converted to Mormonism. Indeed, as the author points out, “Auernheimer deploys a peculiar rhetorical strategy that he’s learned to work to his advantage: he peppers his conversation with bizarre but true facts and historical references — he has an encyclopedic knowledge of ancient Greek history, world religions and contemporary U.S. anti-government extremists, among other things — then hits you with dubious details about his own life.”
According to PandoDaily, Auernheimer was living in Serbia as of 2014 in order to avoid further prosecution from the United States.[49] A report in 2016 stated he was living “somewhere in Eastern Europe”, but that his exact location was unknown.[1]
After Adult FriendFinder was hacked and customer information was released, Auernheimer searched through the files and used Twitter to publicly identify customers. He told CNN, “I went straight for government employees because they seem the easiest to shame.”[50]
As of October 2015, Auernheimer has been working in conjunction with independent-journalist Charles C. Johnson to publish names of government employees who were exposed by the Ashley Madison data breach and to post those names on Johnnson’s site, GotNews.com.[51][52][53] He has also been involved in the Planned Parenthood video release, which were under Temporary Restraining Order. As described in the Washington Post article, he did it “For the lulz.”[54][55]
In March 2016, Auernheimer hacked into several printers across several American universities and printed out thousands of flyers promoting The Daily Stormer. Auernheimer claimed to have use a “common tool” to scour the internet for vulnerable printers and ended up finding over a million insecure devices…
Auernheimer has published a number of podcasts and keeps a LiveJournal blog[10] in which he offers commentary on racial and cultural issues. His views have proved controversial, causing Philip Elmer-DeWitt to dub him “the ugliest computer hacker”.[56] Rolling Stone calls his hacking results racist and homophobic[57] while others have interpreted his work as deliberately offensive humor, with Fox News calling it “offensive and witty detail”[58] and a Forbes author telling readers to “think: Shakespeare’s Puck”;[59] an Atlantic magazine author called this Puck reference “oddly generous.”[60]
On Red Ice Radio, Andrew reasoned that “And the way I look at the term ‘white supremacy’… Isn’t white supremacy diversity? Like, Africans are supreme in Africa, right? Like, it’s not like the Chinese aren’t supreme in China. Why shouldn’t Whites be supreme in the nations of their forefathers? That just seems to me to be equality and diversity to me.”[61]
Auernheimer is an advocate for free speech. He defended the satirical wiki Encyclopedia Dramatica in a Ninemsn interview[62] which was cited as “rather brilliant” in an article about Australian Internet censorship published in The Register.[63] His actions have sometimes been described as hacktivism —- Australian media commentator Emma Jane has characterized him as a “celebrity hacktivist”.[64]
Auernheimer has shown support for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, stating that he “had a strong decade of infuriating rich people.”[65]
Auernheimer has stated publicly that he is an admirer of Timothy McVeigh, Andrew Stack, and Marvin Heemeyer.[66][67]
The Daily Dot wrote of his white nationalism that “Auernheimer’s rant has served mostly to put a wide chasm between the important case he was a part of from the ideas he got in prison and now loudly espouses.”
The famous internet troll Weev posts: Sure we can, all we have to do is use traditional multivariate testing methodologies from the advertising industry. I have tested this s**t on scales that most of you will never have the opportunity to. It just doesn’t pay to give much of a nod to sobbing moralists.
You know, I used to deny being a white supremacist and claim I was a white nationalist. It was terrible. Shitlibs still heard “neonazi white male supremacist cisscum” no matter what I said and supporters heard me having a boring semantic argument with a liberal.
Then I got a swastika tattoo and switched to a rebuttal. “There’s black supremacy in Lagos, and Asian Supremacy in Shanghai. The fact that you only complain about dismantling the just supremacy of whites in their ethnic homelands shows you to be an anti-white genocidal monster, and if you threaten our people with death we’re going to gleefully and unapologetically bash the skulls of your infants on the pavement and rape your daughters before we slice you apart slowly. White supremacy is a moral imperative. Whites must have ethnic homelands of our own, just as all the other races do. That’s true diversity and equality.”
This scares the s**t out of liberals and forces them to rebuttal, and they have no rebuttal for this, because it is true. Liberals not only hear the same “neonazi white male supremacist cisscum” but they see it being assertively advanced by an intellectual superior and they cower in dread. I’m a proud white supremacist now. I will not play semantic or pedantic games and I will not apologize. They will give us our homes back, and that’s not going to happen peacefully.
They will not be afraid if you take violence off the table. What we actually do with power once we seize it is up for debate, but the best thing to do is make shitlibs understand that they must bow at the altar of white supremacy and beg for the penances of beatings and slavery, lest a robotic Einherjar programmed for revenge stream the slaughter of their families on Twitch.
