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Secret 'Batman' Tech Heroes Protect Internet: Prof

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 23, 2009 9:08 AM CDT

(Newser) – The Internet keeps functioning thanks to the efforts of an army of unsung heroes, a Harvard cyberlaw expert told a tech conference yesterday. The professor used as an example Pakistan's attempt last year to take YouTube offline—the site went down across the world, but...   Read full story »

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