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This article analyses the professionalisation paths pursued by hackers. More specifically, it focuses on the group of those who became socialised as enthusiastic fans of security between 1995 and 2002. The analysis of paths shows that there are four professional routes: integration as an employee, opting to be independent, the path of fraud and parallel remuneration under a masked identity. These...