Quinn Norton is a writer who likes to hang out in the dead end alleys and rough neighborhood of the Internet. She started studying hackers in 1995, after a wasted youth of Usenet and BBSing. She was Wired's correspondent on Anonymous and the Occupy movement in 2011 and 2012. These days, Quinn is a columnist for Medium and MaximumPC. She covers science, technology, copyright law, robotics, body modification, and medicine, but no matter how many times she tries to leave, she always comes back to hackers.