When Hackers Fight
A leet hacker recounts an epic pwning
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11 min readAug 29, 2019
By Michael Calce
Originally published at Nautilus on October 10, 2013.
Many subcultures revolve around secret codes — but none do it quite like computer hackers. In our peculiar corner of the world, everyone’s identity is masked by a codename, and the lingua franca relies heavily on coding jargon. When we hackers…