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Lorax B. Horne

(They/Them)
Nova Scotia
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Covers:  politics, Ecuador, Latin America, technology, activism, free speech, human rights, national security
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Lorax B. Horne’s Biography

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Canadian/UK writer often based in Ecuador, Germany or elsewhere. Editor for the Distributed Denial of Secrets transparency collective.

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Why you should care about who's watching you online

Why you should care about who's watching you online

"My fight for free and private spaces online is, at first, a selfish one. I’m fighting to save that early Int…

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Ecuador: Inefficiencies begging to be disrupted

Ecuador: Inefficiencies begging to be disrupted

The 2014 Notorious Markets List notes that in La Bahia, “the occasional administrative enforcement efforts fo…

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Twitter 'leaving us in the dark' over state hacking claims, activists say

Twitter 'leaving us in the dark' over state hacking claims, activists say

When more than 50 political activists from across Europe and North America were told by Twitter in December 2…

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Shari Steele on online anonymity: Tor staff are 'freedom fighters'

Shari Steele on online anonymity: Tor staff are 'freedom fighters'

At a secret location on New Year's Eve 2015, a core team of Tor Project employees mingled with the Berlin cyp…

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Former Guantánamo detainee speaks to hacker conference by video link

Former Guantánamo detainee speaks to hacker conference by video link

Moazzam Begg, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee, was unable to address Europe's largest hacker convention in…

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How software developers helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone

How software developers helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone

Little known to the rest of the world, a team of open source software developers played a small but integral …

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Hackstar in Exile: My intro to the American Wikileaks rapist

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By Lorax B. Horne
| Ghost
For me, it started the summer of Snowden in 2013. In Guayaquil, Ecuador, I am a journalist working on the web desk of a national newspaper. It's my first paid job in the country. Julian Assange has asylum in Ecuador's embassy in London. I was on a missionary visa in Ecuador my whole childhood, into my early 20s. I left the church when I started university, in Canada.
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Release: ExtractivistLeaks (2TB)

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By Lorax B. Horne
| Substack
We release this series of datasets at the same time as they are published by Enlace Hacktivista, the anonymous platform for the documentation of hacker history. The source for these leaks is the hacktivist collective Guacamaya. Guacamaya outlined their motivation in a statement in Spanish that reads in part: The datasets in this release include: Hacked emails from the state mining company of Ecuador, ENAMI, which was founded under ex-president Rafael Correa's administration.
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Molly White contributed €500 to Adopt a hacker

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By Lorax B. Horne
| fundrazr.com
Here's the campaign that needs your help €9,276 raised 122 contributors 46 days running Donk_enby is a pseudonymous hacktivist from somewhere in Europe. This mobile security researcher has lost jobs and income thanks to her selfless work documenting and preventing coups and wars. This fund will help her travel to safety, and pay for rent. Browse View Slideshow Add Hide comments Comments ✕ Uh oh! Your media gallery is empty.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Opinions Editor at my university newspaper

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes ... for crafts.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Gus Haynes

Awards

Atlantic Journalism Awards

2012 - Radio Feature Writing
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