Parmy Olson
Olson’s reporting created a book-length record of hacktivist groups, their internal conflicts, and their relationship with public narratives about computer security.
Parmy Olson is a technology journalist and author. Her reporting has covered emerging technology, and her book We Are Anonymous examines Anonymous and LulzSec through interviews and reporting.
Hacktivism as reported history
We Are Anonymous presents a narrative of decentralized hacker and hacktivist activity, including the public attention, disagreements, and law-enforcement pressure that surrounded those groups. It is a useful journalistic source for the early 2010s period.
Timeline
- 2012Publishes We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency.
- 2013A paperback edition of We Are Anonymous is issued by Little, Brown.
- 2019Forbes republishes and catalogs Olson’s technology reporting from the decade.
Parmy Olson
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 2012-Present
- Known for
- We Are Anonymous; Technology journalism; Reporting on Anonymous and LulzSec
- Tags
- author, journalism, hacktivism, anonymous, books
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