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'Project Vigilant' Recruits At Defcon To Track You

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the project-apathy-doesn't-bother-recruiting dept.

angry tapir writes "A secretive volunteer group that tries to track terrorists and criminals on the Internet went to the Defcon hacker conference in hopes of recruiting information security experts, but it will first have to overcome some skepticism. That's because most information security professionals have never heard of the group, called Project Vigilant."

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  1. Re:Pot, meet kettle by BrokenHalo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    government^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H protective spying...

    Unless your Emacs is broken, you should be able to use ^W to achieve the same effect.

    HTH.