Th3j35t3r

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Case Summary

Th3j35t3r (The Jester) is a patriotic American hacker who claims to be a veteran of the U.S. military. To date, his targets have included anti-American "jihadist" websites, Anonymous, LulzSec, Wikileaks, and the Westboro Baptist Church (who picket funerals of U.S. service members). Additionally, during the Libyan conflict of 2011, The Jester injected false stories into the Libyan media about failures of Gaddafi's forces in an attempt to hurt loyalist morale.

Recommended Literature

• Wikipedia entry
• TJ O'Connor, The Jester Dynamic: A Lesson in Asymmetric Unmanaged Cyber Warfare, SANS Institute, Dec 30, 2011.
• Sean Gallagher, "Patriotic hacktivist" The Jester unmasked—or maybe it's a big troll, Ars Technica, May 15, 2012.