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Lorraine Murphy


Lorraine Murphy is an Ottawa-based cybersecurity journalist and founding editor of the Cryptosphere. She has a keen interest in WikiLeaks and web culture, and her bylines have appeared in Salon, Vanity Fair, Serious Eats, and elsewhere.

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The best Guy Fawkes masks in Anonymous history

In honor of Halloween and the upcoming Million Mask March, I’ve rooted through my extensive collection of adapted Anonymous masks.

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Sentencing delayed again for Sabu, LulzSec leader turned FBI informant

Does the FBI still need him?

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The former public face of LulzSec is out of jail and back on Twitter

“Back from unexpected AFK. What’s a Gangnam?”

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How Anonymous gamed Twitter to shed light on a hidden massacre

It took hacktivist collective Anonymous to introduce the world to the Rohingya people in Burma.

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The Morning GIF: Lindsay Lohan lip service

The case of the incredible inflating lips.

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The Morning GIF: Skyball

Up in the air with Iya Traore.

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The Morning GIF: Out-of-body experience

There’s no more thorough look at a human’s innards than this.

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The Morning GIF: Personifying consumerism

“Working the grill at McDonald’s” has taken on a whole new meaning.

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The Morning GIF: Ermahgerd, Lergerlers!

Not even the Ermahgerd treatment can dull Legolas’ beauty to a true fan.

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Monday Mashup: AutoTuned Hitler meets Anonymous

Charlie Chaplin’s speech from “The Great Dictator” gets an autotuned re-re-remix via Anonymous.

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The Morning GIF: Old fashioned New Year’s

It’s astonishing to see Times Square as she once was.

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The Morning GIF: Shake it off

Horses can be profoundly goofy creatures.

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The Morning GIF: Holiday hangover

Tears, beauty, innocence, hope, regret, and dyspepsia: our 2012 in a nutshell.

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Morning Mashup: Last Gangnam Style

Start your Christmas right with the Daily Dot’s Morning Mashup, the best music remix from around the Web. This season, Wham! meets Psy. 

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The Morning GIF: Brad Pitt vs. Brad Pitt

Advertising: Can’t live with it, can’t live without.

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