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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.

Lorraine Murphy

The best Guy Fawkes masks in Anonymous history

Daily Dot Contributor

Culture

You can close the tab, but you can’t escape the nightmares

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.

Fernando Alfonso III

The 15 creepiest stories from r/nosleep, Reddit’s freakshow campfire

White people dressing as Trayvon Martin is the worst Halloween trend of 2013

Noam Chomsky explains how the Internet made us stupid

This Tumblr shows there’s nothing wrong with having a therapist

Norm Macdonald eviscerates Bret Easton Ellis in epic Twitter rant

This double amputee wants Reddit to pick his Halloween costume

Super-fit mom of 3 wants to know why you’re not as ripped as she is

Aaron Sankin is a former Senior Staff Writer at the Daily Dot who covered the intersection of politics, technology, online privacy, Twitter bots, and the role of dank memes in popular culture. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He joined the Center for Investigative Reporting in 2016.

Culture

The best Guy Fawkes masks in Anonymous history

You can close the tab, but you can’t escape the nightmares

The 15 creepiest stories from r/nosleep, Reddit’s freakshow campfire

White people dressing as Trayvon Martin is the worst Halloween trend of 2013

Noam Chomsky explains how the Internet made us stupid

This Tumblr shows there’s nothing wrong with having a therapist

Norm Macdonald eviscerates Bret Easton Ellis in epic Twitter rant

This double amputee wants Reddit to pick his Halloween costume

Super-fit mom of 3 wants to know why you’re not as ripped as she is

The most refrigerator-worthy crayon art you’ll see all year

Joyce Carol Oates trolls the late Truman Capote on Twitter

Why WebMD might actually be bad for your health

The battle to destroy Wikipedia’s biggest sockpuppet army

The odds of meeting the love of your life in college

A happy little Bob Ross painting goes up on eBay