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== [[Real Life]] ==
* ''[[wikipedia:The Cuckoochr(27)s Egg (book)|The Cuckoo's Egg]]'' is a first-hand account of real-life Dot Combat from 1986. Clifford Stoll was asked by his supervisor to find the cause of a $0.75 billing anomaly in the accounts; over ten months, he followed the trail from that, to a hacker who was breaching American military networks looking for information on the Nuclear and SDI programs and selling what he stole to the KGB.
** This story is notable for being the first properly documented case of computer hacking due to the fact that Cliff Stoll was an astronomer properly trained in documentation and with the sense of curiosity of a scientist as opposed to a computer person whose response was merely to lock out the user and forget about it (as was generally the case).
* Hackers from Taiwan and China have had actual hacking feuds going on. After all, why not try to hack your countries most likely enemy and get sympathy from your neighbors, rather then making them mad.
* Bletchley Park vs Enigma could count as this in [[World War 2]] though computers as were not invented (or were just being invented depending how you look at it). In any case Bletchley Park was one big stuffy British hacker camp.
* Nations and political factions anywhere from the level of superpowers to the level of terrorist rings regularly keep an arsenal of offensive, defensive, or just Signint (signals intelligence) apps. As well as hacker teams to run them. One of the most famous was the Stuxnet virus which leapfrogged from computer to computer and deleting itself in any that did not contain what it's instructions told it to target. This happened to be the Iranian nuclear facilities and is generally suspected to have been launched by the US and/or Israeli secret services. It was picked up, tracked, and dissected remarkably soon by white hatters from security companies but by that time it had done what it had been intended to do. In this case the perps and the white hats were each other's [[Worthy Opponent|Worthy Opponents]] kind of by accident and the Iranians were not a player as they got stomped from the get-go.
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