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"They're baaack!" says Thrifty Tel Inc.'s Rebecca Bigley.
"They" are the computer hackers that plagued the long-distance telephone company two years ago, as it was struggling through a difficult bankruptcy.
Hackers are computer jockeys who gain illegal access to a target computer system and often wreak havoc within the system. Bigley had battled the hackers once before --and thought she had won. Now they have returned.
"This time we're prepared, and they are not going to get away with it," Bigley said. As if to underscore this, she has taken the offensive, calling on the state Public Utilities Commission to help Thrifty Tel in its fight.
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