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Parmy Olson

Parmy Olson is a journalist for Forbes magazine known for her work on the hacktivist movement Anonymous. She describes herself as covering 'agitators and innovators in mobile.' Early in her career with Forbes magzzine, she wrote a series of articles about the subprime mortgage crisis. Parmy also served as the London bureau chief for Forbes from 2008–12 before transitioning to the magazine's San Francisco office.


“She never typed her real name into her netbook in case it got key-logged, had no physical hard drive, and would boot up from a tiny microSD card that she could quickly swallow if the police ever came to her door.”
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“Rumor even had it that she’d stabbed her webcam with a knife one day, just in case someone took over her PC and filmed her unaware.”
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