It's 2013 and white hat hackers like Adam Laurie are still breaking into ID chips that are supposed to be secure.

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Fortify hired some of the country's best white-hat hackers, honest people who know what the bad guys will try.

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But Twitter has since worked to beef up its security, in part through adding well-known white-hat hackers to its staff such as cryptography-focused Moxie Marlinspike and former NSA analyst Charlie Miller.

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But they're not shadowy criminals: They're students training to become "white-hat" hackers, experts to help business and government agencies protect their data from cyberattacks that have become an almost daily occurrence.

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