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    The past two years have been a wild ride for Adrian Lamo: The 22-year-old has publicly taken credit for tunnelling into networks belonging to Yahoo, Microsoft, Excite@Home and WorldCom.

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    A handful of private companies have started to take enforcement into their own hands, quietly developing security units to protect their clients' assets in cyberspace. What has emerged is a powerful, albeit clandestine, industry within an industry, with an unsurpassed access to otherwise classified security information that is now seeking to exercise its political clout to make the virtual business world safer for commerce.

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