| 2001 | LDR: Linux Domande e Risposte 3.0 | contributor | Gaetano PaolonePLUTO / ILDP (Italian Linux Documentation Project), libro elettronico libero | Free Italian GNU/Linux FAQ book: answer 2.1.2 (how to monitor the system's daily traffic), an ipchains script that accounts HTTP, IMAP, POP3 and SMTP traffic, is credited to Fabio Pietrosanti in the contributors' index. | 1 |
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| 2007 | Profilo hacker. La scienza del criminal profiling applicata al mondo dell'hacking (ed. inglese: Profiling Hackers: The Science of Criminal Profiling as Applied to the World of Hacking) | acknowledged | Raoul Chiesa, Stefania Ducci, Silvio CiappiApogeo (2007); ed. inglese CRC Press / Auerbach (2008-2009) | The Hacker's Profiling Project (UNICRI) book thanks Fabio "Naif" Pietrosanti in its acknowledgements, among the Italian hacking and security people who helped the research; he is not known to be discussed beyond that. | 1 2 3 |
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| 2009 | Il software libero in Italia | contributor | Andrea Glorioso (a cura di)Shake Edizioni (collana Cyberpunkline) | CC-licensed collective volume: chapter 12, "Il FLOSS nella sicurezza informatica", is his. He argues that open-source software is more secure than closed (hidden backdoors, peer review, exposure windows, his own BIND bug of 2000 fixed within a day), covers open cryptography, e-passports and e-voting, and ends with a map of the Italian scene (s0ftpj, Antifork, Blackhats.it, Metro Olografix, Sikurezza.org, Winston Smith…). | 1 2 |
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| 2012 | This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information | interviewed | Andy GreenbergDutton (Penguin), New York | In the chapter on WikiLeaks' successors, Greenberg presents Pietrosanti and Arturo Filastò as the cofounders of GlobaLeaks, which aims to be the BitTorrent to WikiLeaks' Napster; he describes him as a thirty-year-old security engineer and reports his goal of growing from some fifty WikiLeaks copycats to hundreds or thousands of "leak nodes". | 1 2 3 |
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| 2013 | Destini Hacker - Attacco al sistema | acknowledged | Lele Rozza, Alessio PennasilicoBlonk | Ebook novel on information security: his name is in the acknowledgements, between Igor Falcomatà and Yvette Agostini, in both the Italian and the English edition (The hackers' destiny). Ebook only, no printed page number. | 1 |
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| 2016 | Polityka 2016 (volume annuale rilegato) | mentioned | Polityka (redazione)Wydawnictwo Prasowe Polityka | Bound annual volume of the Polish weekly, not a book proper: an article explains that GlobaLeaks was built by Italian hackers Fabio Pietrosanti and Arturo Filastò for the Hermes Center and is used by European watchdogs, anti-corruption groups and media. | 1 |
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| 2017 | La Guida HERMES al Voto Digitale | acknowledged | Winston Smith (Emmanuele Somma); prefazione di Marco Calamari, postfazione di Chelsea ManningInfomedia Editori / HERMES Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights | Critical guide to electronic voting published by the Hermes Center (CC BY-NC-SA licence): the first name on the acknowledgements page is Fabio "naif" Pietrosanti (Hermes Center). | 1 2 |
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| 2018 | Smarter Crowdsourcing for Anti-Corruption: A handbook of innovative legal, technical, and policy proposals (ed. spagnola: Manual de propuestas legales, técnicas y de políticas innovadoras) | quoted | Beth Simone Noveck, Kaitlin Koga, Rafael Aceves Garcia, Hannah Deleanu, Dinorah Cantú-PedrazaInter-American Development Bank / GovLab | GovLab/IDB handbook for Mexico: Pietrosanti, president and co-founder of the Hermes Center that built GlobaLeaks, is on the list of the process's experts (whistleblowing) and is quoted on two points: in a vertical sector you only want relevant reports, and routing reports to multiple actors (an NGO and a public office) builds trust and accountability. | 1 2 |
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| 2019 | L'esecuzione. 5 Stelle da movimento a governo | mentioned | Jacopo IacoboniLaterza | Discussing the Rousseau platform, after Stefano Zanero's verdict, he lists the critical IT experts: Matteo Flora, Fabrizio Carimati, Stefano Fratepietro, Fabio Pietrosanti, Andrea Stroppa and Paolo Attivissimo, noting that experts saying otherwise are extremely rare. Print page number unknown. | 1 |
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| 2020 | ANNO 2020 I PARTITI PRIMA PARTE | quoted | Antonio Giangrandeautopubblicato | Self-published press-clipping compilation, not an original essay: it reprints an article on Open Rousseau in which Pietrosanti explains the project's technical design, based on Decidim, the platform already used in Barcelona. | 1 |
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| 2020 | Applying Internet Laws and Regulations to Educational Technology | cited | Bruce L. MannIGI Global | Cites Pietrosanti and Aterno's 2017 Boing Boing article on Italy's proposal to regulate government trojans and takes up its principles, such as safe removal of the trojan after an investigation and traceability of its use. | 1 |
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| 2020 | Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism | mentioned | Maureen WebbMIT Press | Names him among the Hermes Center founders (p. 115, with Matteo Flora and others; again on p. 120, missing from the index). On pp. 220-222, in the section on Maddish (Maddalena Falzoni of the Barcelona collective Xnet), she tells how Maddish found GlobaLeaks the easiest tool and worked closely with him and his colleague Giovanni. | 1 |
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| 2020 | Digital Whistleblowing Platforms in Journalism: Encrypting Leaks | acknowledged | Philip Di SalvoPalgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature) | In the acknowledgements Di Salvo names Fabio 'Naif' Pietrosanti and the Hermes Center as crucial to the research; on p. 73 he names him (with Filastò) as a main GlobaLeaks coder, and chapter 5 uses his Nexa Center slides as a source, with data cross-checked with a Hermes member. | 1 2 |
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| 2020 | Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism | interviewed | Andrew FowlerRoutledge | Fowler met him in a square in Rome: he presents him as the man who conceived GlobaLeaks, built to overcome WikiLeaks' limits (centralised, mostly English-only) and the weak security of other systems, and notes that in 2010 he could not have known how vital anti-surveillance would become for journalists. | 1 |
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| 2020 | The Ethics of Cybersecurity (cap. 10: Cybersecurity and the State) | cited | Markus Christen, Bert Gordijn, Michele Loi (a cura di); cap. 10 di Eva SchlehahnSpringer (open access) | The chapter on the state as a potential cyber-attacker cites Pietrosanti and Aterno's 2017 Boing Boing piece on Italy's proposed law to regulate government hacking, as an example of EU states allowing intrusive surveillance technologies. | 1 2 |
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| 2021 | Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West | mentioned | Ethan LouECW Press | In the account of the 2019 Pyongyang blockchain and cryptocurrency conference he lists him among the attendees as an Italian information-security specialist, alongside Virgil Griffith. | 1 |
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| 2021 | Research Anthology on Business Aspects of Cybersecurity | cited | Information Resources Management Association (a cura di)IGI Global | Anthology that (probably reprinting Bruce Mann's chapter) cites Pietrosanti and Aterno 2017 on regulating government trojans: safe removal after the investigation and traceability. | 1 |
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| 2022 | ANNO 2022 L'ACCOGLIENZA OTTAVA PARTE | quoted | Antonio Giangrandeautopubblicato | Self-published press-clipping compilation, not an original essay: it reprints Il Riformista pieces (Nicola Biondo, February 2022) in which Pietrosanti, Hermes Center activist, warns about Kaspersky antivirus in Italian public bodies. | 1 |
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| 2024 | Digital Media and Grassroots Anti-Corruption (cap. 7: Digital whistleblowing platforms for anti-corruption: The Transparency International Italia case) | mentioned | Alice Mattoni (a cura di); cap. 7 di Philip Di SalvoEdward Elgar (open access) | The chapter on the Transparency International Italia case recalls that GlobaLeaks was started by Italians Arturo Filastò, Claudio Agosti, Fabio Pietrosanti, Giovanni Pellerano and Michele Orrù and presented at End Summer Camp 2011. | 1 |
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| 2024 | Intelligenza artificiale, blockchain e criptovalute | quoted | Massimiliano Nicotra, Fulvio Sarzana di S. IppolitoWolters Kluwer Italia | Quotes him, as president and co-founder of the Hermes Center, on the frontiers of behavioural user profiling made possible by artificial intelligence. | 1 |
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| 2025 | Modern Internet Regulations and Laws in Educational Technology | cited | Bruce L. MannIGI Global | New edition of Mann's work: it again cites Pietrosanti and Aterno 2017 (Boing Boing) on regulating government trojans, in the text and in several chapter bibliographies. | 1 |
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| 2025 | Political Automation: An Introduction to AI in Government and Its Impact on Citizens | profile | Eduardo AlbrechtOxford University Press | Appendix I ("Further Reading by Scholars", pp. 212-256), a set of expert profiles, includes one on him (p. 227, "Fabio Pietrosanti - Hermes Center"): from early hacking to entrepreneurship, in cybersecurity since 2000, co-founder of the Hermes Center. He is not among the book's interviewees. | 1 |
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