Word: damnedest
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However, it seems ironic that while most people my age try their best to hold onto their youth, Harvard students and their counterparts at other elite colleges are doing their damnedest to leave it behind. It seems that we can't grow up quickly enough. When students at other schools take advantage of the summer to return home and strengthen ties with old friends from high school, us Harvardians might drop in on Mom and Pop for a couple days before flying over to Europe to analyze the details of the latest Northern Ireland peace agreement. In the rush...
...surprising that the Feds are happy to have amateur sleuths help out, even if those sleuths happen to be hackers themselves. After all, plenty of old-school hackers are now high-salaried heads of security; others are employed as "white-hat" hackers who do their damnedest to crack a system in order to make it unbreakable. Why not turn them into cyber-Pinkertons? "They see themselves in this battle to protect the technology they love," says professor Philip Bobbitt, former National Security Council senior director for infrastructure protection. "No one will be as effective as someone who's fighting...