The Bright Side of Being Hacked

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/technology/the-bright-side-of-being-hacked.html

By SOMINI SENGUPTA and NICOLE PERLROTH
The New York Times
March 4, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hackers operating under the banner Anonymous have been 
poking a finger in the eye of one private company after another for two 
years now.

They steal files from inside corporate computer systems and 
occasionally, as in the case of Stratfor last week, dump company e-mail 
online for all to see.

The Stratfor hack, in which Anonymous claimed to have joined forces with 
WikiLeaks, drove home a clear lesson about the era of ubiquitous 
“hactivism,” or hacking as a form of protest.

Despite the arrests of dozens of suspected members of Anonymous and its 
offshoots worldwide, it is far from diminished. Nor have most of its 
corporate targets been irreparably damaged by the attacks.

Rather, what Anonymous has done, experts said at the big RSA computer 
security conference here last week, is raise the alarm about the 
unguarded state of corporate computer systems.

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