Rickb928 and several others have written to inform us that three reporters for the French promulgation "Global solemn word Magazine" were booted out of the Black Hat assembly for uncovering the login enlightenment of other reporters. Quoting the "The separate, wired hyperspace network set up for reporters are reputed to be off-limits to hacking and the Wall of Sheep. Even so reporters who didn't take the extra step and log onto the web banking brain* network through an additional secure connection like a virtual private network, risked having their data exposed to compeers sitting just feet away. It didn't appear to be a elaborate hack. The network was working properly, but it wasn't set up to shield each journalist's adding machine from one another."

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