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Many depictions of this animal appear throughout an anonymous 2019 paper that detailed how its author hacked the Cayman Islands National Bank and introduced a “hacktivist bug bounty program”. Phineas Fisher wrote that paper under an alias combining the name Subcomandante Marcos with this animal. The Hacktivismo organization was spun off from a group named for this animal that made the Windows remote access program Back Orifice. (15[1])Graphic designer Susan Kare created an image of a hybrid dog and this animal named Clarus that became an early mascot for (*) Apple. A popular command-line program that displays an ASCII (10[1])art version of this animal with a (10[2])speech bubble containing the input is aptly named “[this animal] say”. Beto O’Rourke was part of an early hacker collective called the Cult of the Dead [this animal]. (10[1])For 10 points, a common scientific joke involves a physicist assuming that what animal is spherical? ■END■

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