Morgan Marquis-Boire

Morgan Marquis-Boire
Born	1980 New Zealand
Other names	headhntr, Morgan Mayhem
Occupation	Hacker, security researcher
Years active	1998–present

Morgan Marquis-Boire is a New Zealand-born hacker, journalist, and security researcher.

He was the Director of Security at First Look Media and a contributing writer at The Intercept. Marquis-Boire's research on security, surveillance and censorship has been featured on the front pages of The New York Times and The Washington Post, and covered extensively in news media around the world, including the BBC News,Bloomberg,The Wall Street Journal, and Der Spiegel.

His work tracking the digital component of the ongoing Syrian Civil War is featured in the book Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace.

Marquis-Boire previously served as an advisor to the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He was a Special Advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation and advisor to the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute.

Marquis-Boire resigned in September 2017 from his post as a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, a multi-disciplinary advanced research laboratory at the University of Toronto. Citizen Lab later disclosed it had received an allegation of a 2014 sexual assault involving Marquis-Boire after his resignation.

He has been profiled by Wired,CNN,Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Tages Anzeiger. He was featured as one of Wired Italy 's Top 50 people of 2014. In March 2015 he was named a Young Global Leader.

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