Air Force Seeking Geeks For 'Cyber Command'

An anonymous reader writes "Wired reports that the two-star general in charge of the US Air Force's new Cyber Command is looking for hacker-types to beef up its cadre of cyber warriors — no heavy lifting required. 'We have to change the way we think about warriors of the future,' General William Lord says. 'So if they can't run three miles with a pack on their backs but they can shut down SCADA system, we need to have a culture where they fit in.' The Cyber Command is the Air Force's first new Major Command since the early 1990s. Its purpose is to be able to win an electronic war with China and other potential adversaries."

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Re:At least I know

[aproposofwhat]

In the late 1970's I was working with a PDP11. Not too many schools in the 1970's had one you could learn.

My (Grammar) school in England did - it was running the RSTS-11 timesharing OS and even had a Winchester drive.

Oh happy days - our disk space allocation was 256KB per pupil, and most of that was taken up with text adventure games and programming exercises.

Thanks for prompting those memories - those were truly halcyon days :-)