[quote=@Foxxie]
The concept I'm batting around right now involves a group of hackers who see themselves as vigilantes, constantly orchestrating hacks to get information on corporate corruption or digital murmurs of illicit drug trades. They have some fighters among their midst, but the general feel of the group tends to paint them more as information brokers. They don't want the big corporations or gangs to have free reign, but they also realize they don't have the manpower to stop them, so besides small sting operations, they mainly archive and auction information for those who really can use it. [u]Small-time CEOs would love to have them on the payroll[/u].
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I could work with that as I'm going for a small but very forward research corporation with perhaps less moral constraints than many. The morality aspect of your group might cause some interesting "deal with the devil" dynamics, but I think it works with the "we'll do business with anyone so long as it benefits us" mentality of the corporation I have in mind and I could easily see there being ample compensation provided to the hackers for their services to ensure that they might find it too tempting of an offer to refuse (and there are probably worse corporations out there).

However, that's  just an idea, and by no means something that needs to be set in stone, but I liked your idea so I wanted to offer some feedback or rather some potential plot hooks. :D