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Comment BitCoin will never be legit (Score 1) 430

Any currency that can take a massive dive on the foreign exchange market due to Internet trolls posting on one single message board is a currency that will never have a single shred of credibility. Just because legitimate businesses accept it doesnt suddenly eliminate the huge amount of risk associated with trading in that currency. There are also plenty of other ways of transferring cash within a day.
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Hollywood Treats Hackers Pretty Well 216

angry tapir writes "According to Damian Gordon, a lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology, hackers are treated pretty well by movie-makers. Gordon studied 50 movies, produced over five decades, to help write an academic paper for the International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions. The results amazed him. In the movies, most hackers aren't teenaged whiz-kids. They're professionals, over 30 years old, who work in IT."

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