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Inside the Billion-Dollar Hacker Club

An anonymous reader writes "Here's an inside look at the personal successes of the elite hacking group "w00w00". From the article: 'For this group of old friends, assembled for an impromptu reunion, the venue would feel familiar: an online chat room running on a secure private server. Each were former members of the elite hacking group "w00w00" and they had reconvened that afternoon to celebrate and share in the success of one of their own. In some ways it was just like old times. But rather than success being the discovery of a new software exploit or penetration of a computer network, this was something more extraordinary. One of the group's former members had just sold their company for $19 billion dollars."

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  1. the missing url by Idimmu+Xul · · Score: 4, Informative
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    The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
  2. Re:19 billion? by justMichael · · Score: 5, Informative

    The other 3 billion is for retention bonuses http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/...

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