At a typical Wells Fargo branch here, employees and customers do business each day oblivious to a beehive of activity in the basement. There, five blue-walled rooms serve as makeshift classrooms for other tenants in the building who are light . . .

At a typical Wells Fargo branch here, employees and customers do business each day oblivious to a beehive of activity in the basement. There, five blue-walled rooms serve as makeshift classrooms for other tenants in the building who are light years from the world of banking: an organization of some of the most talented computer hackers in the country.

As menacing as this juxtaposition might seem, the group insists that its work is harmless and, in fact, is dedicated to doing good. The founders of GhettoHackers, as the group is called, say its 30-odd members teach others how to crack security only to find flaws so that defenses can be hardened.

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