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|years_active = 2001&mdash;<ref name="press" />
|leader_title = President
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The '''Gay Nigger Association of America''', (more commonly known by the acronym '''GNAA''') are a tightly-knit<ref name="tightknit" /> group of anti-]ging trolls<ref name="GLS" /> who take their name from the 1992 Danish movie, '']''<ref name="jdean" /> responsible for many high profile<ref name="CNN" /> ]s,<ref name="rubygoldmine" /><ref name="twittv" /> as well as software products<ref name="lm" /> and ].<ref name="IRC" /> The group maintains a wiki-based site dedicated to commenting on notable internet events and parodying slashdot posts, as well as offering a ]-based repository known as "Trollforge" for GNAA coding projects.<ref name="wiki" />

Members engage in such activities as flooding weblogs,<ref name="GLS" /><ref name="julia" /> producing shock sites,<ref name="lm" /><ref name="bridge" /> prank-calling technical support telephone lines,<ref name="sepia" /> protesting,<ref name="twitterprotest" /> ] channel ],<ref name="ffbug" /><ref name="netwerk" /> ] demonstrations,<ref name="obamabug" /> and even allegedly "trolling" ].<ref name="CNN" /> These actions have occasionally interrupted the normal operation of popular websites such as ], 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.<ref name="tightknit" />

Despite the name, which according to new media researcher ] caused immediate alarm in anyone with a semblance of good taste, the group claims that it promotes neither racism nor homophobia. Its aim is to sow disruption on the internet.<ref name="GLS" /> Lih has noted on the groups activities within ], claiming that by adhering to every rule, they can use the system against itself.<ref name="nobodies" />

== Relationship with Apple Inc. ==
In ], two GNAA members submitted leaked ]s of the forthcoming ] ] to the popular ] ] news website ], which read "With ] 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."<ref name="macrumors-tiger" /> 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 had "trolled" the Apple community.<ref name="gnaatiger" />

In ], the GNAA claimed<ref name="osxtorrent" /> to have created a ] Tiger release for ] processors which caught media attention from various sources.<ref name="macdailynews" /><ref name="wild" /><ref name="cultofmac" /> The next day, the supposed leak made front page news on Slashdot<ref name="osxtigerleaked" /> and was mentioned on the ] show '']''<ref name="aots" /> The DVD image released onto ] merely booted an image of ] instead of the leaked operating system as some had thought,<ref name="bandwagon" /> and the remaining several gigabytes of space on the DVD was filled with a repetition of the text "GNAAGNAA..."{{fact|date=September 2010}}.

== Goatse Security ==
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] are a group of ]<ref name="ipadsec" /> information security professionals founded by the GNAA<ref name="Atlantic" /><ref name="sapo" /> and made up of GNAA members.<ref name="goatsecmembers" /> Goatse Security attracted mainstream media attention for their disclosure of 114,000 ]es<ref name="npripad" /><ref name="gawkerbreach" /> registered to ] ] devices for early adopters of Apple's 3G iPad service, causing Apple Inc.'s stock price to drop.<ref name="stock" /> The data was aggregated from ]'s own servers by feeding a publicly available script with ] requests containing randomly generated ], which would then return the associated email address.

This incident culminated in the arrest of GNAA President Andrew ']' Auernheimer on unrelated ] found during an ] search.<ref name="cnetdrugs" /> Goatse Security has since expressed outrage over the arrest, stating:
{{Quote|The ] was executed without ], as there is no way a reasonable and educated person could believe a crime was committed.|Goatse Security|<ref name="outrage" />}}

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== References ==
{{reflist|refs=
<!--<ref name="gnaascoip">. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-07.</ref>-->
<ref name="press">. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-25.</ref>
<ref name="wiki"> GNAA. Accessed 2010-08-27.</ref>
<ref name="about">. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="Atlantic">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-31.</ref>
<ref name="rohr">{{cite news | first = Altieres | last = Rohr | title = Saiba como ocorreu falha que expôs e-mails de 114 mil usuários do iPad | date = 2010-06-11 | url = http://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2010/06/entenda-como-foi-falha-que-expos-e-mails-de-114-mil-usuarios-do-ipad.html | work = Rede Globo | accessdate = 2010-09-13 | quote = “weev”, um dos integrantes do grupo, já foi citado em outras matérias do grupo Gawker Media, que deu a notícia como “exclusiva”. Ele, assim como outros membros, faz parte da GNAA, a “Associação de Gays Negros da América”. São pessoas que passam boa parte do tempo on-line tentando realizar “trotes” ou trolls. Entre os membros do grupo, e um dos principais da GNAA, está um desenvolvedor do Linux Debian. O “ex presidente” da GNAA, timecop, é conhecido na internet por fazer parte do Dattebayo – fãs que realizaram traduções dos desenhos japoneses Naruto e Bleach.}}</ref>
<ref name="tightknit">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-27.</ref>
<ref name="GLS">{{cite conference
| first = Jodi
| last = Dean
| authorlink = Jodi Dean
| title = Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive.
| publisher = {{nowrap|}}
| date = 2010
| location = ]
| url = http://books.google.com/books?id=3wWGIvVS8JAC&lpg=PR5&ots=k3M2mFeTUh&dq=%22gay%20nigger%20association%22&lr&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=%22gay%20nigger%20association%22&f=false
| accessdate = 2010-08-27
| quote= Then I got a comment from the GNAA or Gay Nigger Association of America, a group of organized anti-blogging trolls who take their name from a 1992 Danish movie, ''Gay-Niggers from Outerspace''. GNAA claims that it promotes neither racism nor homophobia but aims rather to sow disruption on the internet. The comment on my blog was a minor instance of their more extensive disruptive practices (like "crapflooding" a site with a massive amount of text or data with no meaning or relevance: for example, a word, phrase, or group of letters repeated over and over, or producing hoax or shock sites and inserting links or code that redirect viewers to the site). }}
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<ref name="jdean">. Jodi Dean. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="macrumors-tiger">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-27.</ref>
<ref name="rubygoldmine">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-27.</ref>
<ref name="twittv"> TWiT. Accessed 2010-08-27</ref>
<ref name="lm"> . Last Measure. Accessed 2010-08-27</ref>
<ref name="CNN"> GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="IRC"> ]. Accessed 2010-08-27</ref>
<!--<ref name="trollforge"> GNAA. Accessed 2010-08-27.</ref>-->
<ref name="julia">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-27.</ref>
<ref name="bridge">. ]. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="sepia"> . ] Accessed 2010-08-27.</ref>
<ref name="twitterprotest">. ]. Access 2010-08-28</ref>
<!--<ref name="liberation">. Patrick McFarland. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>-->
<ref name="ffbug">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-27</ref>
<ref name="netwerk">. Techworld. Accessed 2010-08-31.</ref>
<ref name="obamabug">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-27.</ref>
<ref name="nobodies">{{cite book | last1 = Lih | first1 = Andrew | authorlink = Andrew Lih | title = ] | publisher = Hyperion | date = 17 Mar 2009 | location = Cambridge, UK | pages = 170-171 | accessdate = 2010-07-27 | quote= What were some ways to troll and cause trouble? Create an article about something extremely controversial and offensive, but otherwise adhere to every rule of Misplaced Pages and use the system against itself. This was the case with creating an article that had an intentionally offensive name, the Gay Niggers Association of America. GNAA was a name that caused immediate alarm in anyone with a semblance of good taste. It was a phenomenon for many years in the online tech communities, as legions of trolls attempted to have an article in Misplaced Pages about the mischievous group. It's not clear a defined group ever existed as GNAA. Supposed GNAA "members" were simply troublemakers online who unified under a common moniker in an effort to disrupt Misplaced Pages for amusement.}}</ref>
<ref name="gnaatiger">. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="osxtorrent">. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="macdailynews">. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="wild">. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="cultofmac">. Wired. Accessed 2010-09-08.</ref>
<ref name="osxtigerleaked">. Slashdot. Accessed 2010-09-07.</ref>
<ref name="aots">. Accessed 2010-09-07.</ref>
<ref name="bandwagon">. ]. Accessed 2010-09-07.</ref>
<ref name="ipadsec">. ]. Accessed 2010-09-02.</ref>
<ref name="sapo">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-31.</ref>
<ref name="goatsecmembers">. Goatsec. Accessed 2010-08-31.</ref>
<ref name="npripad">. ]. Accessed 2010-09-06.</ref>
<ref name="gawkerbreach">. ]. Accessed 2010-08-31.</ref>
<ref name="stock">. Google Inc. Accessed 2010-09-07.</ref>
<ref name="cnetdrugs">. CNET. Accessed 2010-09-01.</ref>
<ref name="outrage">. GNAA. Accessed 2010-09-24.</ref>
}}

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