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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[Anonymous Coward]

Article has recruiter contact information for wannabe cyber warriors. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080209-12.html

Translation: Hack, tap phones of US Dems/Greens

[leftie]

These "cyber warriors" will spend the vast majority of their time hacking into the computers and tapping the phones of what is now 700,000 US citizens on the FBI watch list mostly because they are active in Democratic Party or Green Party politics.

Must defend America from the threat posed by senior citizen Quaker non-violence activists, right?

Re:Those who join will become killers.

[itsybitsy]

Yes one can take that meaning however it just proves the point that killing doesn't solve anything.

You are deep into the cult of death, as were the Nazis, and as is the Government of Israel and it's current enemies.

One task it to choose the cult of life over the cult of death.

One task is to have the Government of Israel choose the cult of life and make choices that don't involve taking lives.

One task involves having Israel's enemies choose the cult of life and choose actions that don't take lives.

This takes communication. It takes work. It takes creative thinking. It takes relationships. It takes thinking that isn't at the level of thinking that you are thinking. It takes you going beyond your level of thinking. Take the red pill and choose the cult of life.

Re:Those who join will become killers.

[utnapistim]

I'm all for peace and not war, but it is an unfortunate necessity at some points, in order to save life from those who WANT to destroy it for whatever reasons.

So it's necessary to kill those who think killing others (you in your reasoning here) is justified?

Using the same mindset that created the problem in order to solve it, will not exactly lead to solving the problem.

Re:Yeah, right

[Eminence]

There's a lot of very talented GLBT* hackers out there, and the military will have to crawl into this century with its attitudes if it wants this century's warriors. Else civilian contractors it is. Many talented hackers have mental problems of all kinds - after all the guy who made ReiserFS was accused of killing his wife and his private life, as revealed on that occasion, was just one huge mess. However, not all hackers have mental problems and I'd prefer the ones having access to weapons of any kind to be of this kind, not the other.

sorry

[volt4ire]

sorry Airforce but I'm gay and not willing to hide it

Re:At least I know

[Mr. Slippery]

Soldiers are more than trained killing machines, they are efficient thinkers who are told at all times to do the honorable thing.

Anyone who attempts to do "the honorable thing" in the U.S. military gets court-martialed.

And what sort of group of efficient thinkers is so ignorant that 85% of them think the U.S. invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein played a role in the 9-11 attacks?

I salute the physical courage, and the willingness to serve their countrymates, of those who enlist. I worry about their ignorance, and their lack of judgment and of moral courage in turning their conscience over to the United States government, an organization known as a great perpetrator of injustice.

It doesn't have anything to do with hate for most of them, it has to do with orders, and that is why they are professionals.

Right, it's all ok as long as you're following orders.

If anyone is considering joining up, I urge meditation on the words of Thoreau:

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as the rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few -- as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men -- serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it.