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Even the Taliban Is Getting Hacked

Hacking now constitutes 98 percent of all Internet activity.

More proof that we have entered a terrifying new age in which everyone will be hacked at least once in their lifetime, either by anti-authority troublemakers, identity thieves, or British tabloids: Even the Taliban has been hacked, or at least clams it was, after a spokesman sent out text messages and e-mails announcing the death of Taliban leader Mullah Omar. [LAT]

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