INQUIRER.net: Award-winning Filipino hackers bid for US and global business

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Award-winning Filipino hackers bid for US and global business Sep 17th 2013, 23:09 SAN FRANCISCO—Time was when a hacker was regarded as a menace.   Many still remember 2000's disastrous I Love You computer worm, allegedly unleashed unintentionally by a Filipino computer science student and which cost about $5 billion in damages worldwide and forced large corporations, the British parliament, the CIA and the Pentagon to shut down their mail systems.   But there has been a paradigm shift. Much like De La Salle and Ateneo now produce engineers and Mapua, nurses.   Hackers are no longer phreaks or society's fringe dwellers. In fact, some of them engage in friendly competition and get into business for themselves.   Case... Keep on reading: Award-winning Filipino hackers bid for US and global business Media files: hackers-2.jpg (image/jpeg)

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