Letting companies strike back at computer hackers is a bad idea

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SECURITY experts like to say that there are now two types of company: those which know they have been hacked and those which have been hacked without realising it. An annual study of 56 large American firms found that they suffered 102 successful cyber-attacks a week between them in 2012, a 42% rise on the year before. Rising numbers of online attacks are stoking a debate about how best to combat cyber-crooks.

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