Hardly, he retorts: a decade ago, Unilever had a huge computer network for sharing internal information.

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By placing a tracking cookie on a user's computer, an advertising network can collect information about the user's web-browsing activities and use that information to serve online ads targeted to the user's interests or for other purposes.

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Domscheit-Berg, a former network engineer for information technology giant EDS and a sometimes member of Berlin's Chaos Computer Club, first discovered WikiLeaks in 2007 via another document repository site called Cryptome.

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During the investigation, Mr. Monsegur, who lived in and worked from a public-housing project in New York City, received information on a day-to-day basis of "upwards of two dozen vulnerabilities" in computer systems from a network of cybercriminals, Mr. Pastore said in court documents released Thursday.

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