A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked

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A Chinese Hacker's Identity Unmasked

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This is by no means a mind-blowing story. It's a fun read, though, and for once you can read a hacking story in which the good guys win. Kind of.
Temporarily.
Joe Stewart’s day starts at 6:30 a.m. in Myrtle Beach, S.C., with a peanut butter sandwich, a sugar-free Red Bull, and 50,000 or so pieces of malware waiting in his e-mail in-box. Stewart, 42, is the director of malware research at Dell SecureWorks, a unit of Dell (DELL), and he spends his days hunting for Internet spies.
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“Seeing the U.S. economy go south, with high unemployment and all these great companies being hit by China … I just don’t like that,”? he says. “If they did it fair and square, more power to them. But to cheat at it is wrong.”?
--  from BUSINESSWEEK
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... nmasked#p1
No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn/
your hands are cold but your lips are warm
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