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Hugo Rifkind

Are we all potential cyberterrorists now?

The TalkTalk hack suggests we might be. So will the spies have to snoop on us all?

29 October 2015

9:00 AM

29 October 2015

9:00 AM

Hollywood got there first, of course. Back in 1983, before most of us even learned — then forgot again — what a modem was, Matthew Broderick starred in the seminal and brilliant WarGames. He played a computer hacker; a teenager who goes hunting for games on the global computer network that isn’t quite called the internet, yet.

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