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Man who got into hacking while still in school explains what he did in Anonymous

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Dissent

Ali Condon reports:

A man who first got into computer hacking when he was still in school has explained what it was like to work with infamous hacktivist group Anonymous.

Mustafa Al-Bassam, who was once a member of Anonymous and is one of the founders of LulzSec, got his first taste for computer programming when he was just nine years old, and completed his first hack while using an online calculator to do his maths homework.

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