computers that their manufacturers, system engineers, and security experts usually don’t realize are there. The dream of hackers and spies and greedy Warez Dudes is a version of this trick called an “Advanced Persistent Threat” - hidden, back-door access to a machine that endures even for years, through upgrad

this should reward a careful confidence: Go ahead and break the old systems. Something new will emerge. Third, we followed the trail of hackers like the Warez Dudes and discovered something unnerving about the networks around us. Not only are they honeycombed with dangerous and unpatchable holes, but historically

at the Hacktic conference, however, among the system managers and Unix gurus and heating system guerillas (hey, everyone should have a hobby), it was the Warez Dudes who were of the most interest - both to the participants in the conference and to the white vans cruising nearby, allegedly filled with curious Dutch