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Re:Hacker tries to compromise and resell an internet-facing ... by MichaelGG on Sunday April 12, 2015 @01:23PM (#9364049)
No, many authors just use the default pronoun, which happens to be male. I don't like it. But that's a defect in English. They/Them is less precise.

Using "her" actually apparently attracts attention away from the content. Perhaps mixing both within a longer body of text is a more subtle way.

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Re:Hacker tries to compromise and resell an internet-facing ... by jakobegger on Sunday April 12, 2015 @01:53PM (#9364150)
I like "they". It's especially suitable in this case, because we don't even know if it is a single person, or a group, or maybe even an automated attack (allthough that sounds unlikely). "They" leaves it open to the reader to imagine their stereotypical hacker.
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