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Submitted: July 5, 2011 - 8:32am
Last updated: July 5, 2011 - 8:43am
Last updated: July 5, 2011 - 8:43am
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New York Times
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Nick Bilton Somini Sengupta
Much of the hacking scene is a fractious free-for-all, with rival groups and lone wolves engaged in tit-for-tat attacks on each other, often on political or ideological grounds but sometimes for no better reason than to outwit — or out-hack — the other guy.
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