Tuesday, July 05, 2011

In War of Egos, It’s One Hacker vs. Another - NYTimes.com

Strange days indeed

The hackers, calling themselves the A-Team, assembled a trove of private information and put it online for all to see: names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers, even details about family members and girlfriends.

But their targets were not corporate executives, government officials or clueless bank customers. They were other hackers.

And in trying to unmask the identities of the members of a group known as Lulz Security, the A-Team was aiming to take them down a peg — and, indirectly, to help law enforcement officials lock them up.

In War of Egos, It’s One Hacker vs. Another - NYTimes.com

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