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Pentagon Seeks a New Generation of Hackers
Hugh Pickens writes "Forbes reports on a new military-funded program aimed at leveraging an untapped resource: the population of geeky high school and college students in the US. The Cyber Challenge will create three new national competitions for high school and college students intended to foster a young generation of cybersecurity researchers. 'The contests will test skills applicable to both government and private industry: attacking and defending digital targets, stealing data, and tracing how others have stolen it. [...] The Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center will expand its Digital Forensics Challenge, a program it has run since 2006, to include high school and college participants, tasking them with problems like tracing digital intrusions and reconstructing incomplete data sources. In the most controversial move, the SANS Institute, an independent organization, plans to organize the Network Attack Competition, which challenges students to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software, compromise enemy systems and steal data. Talented entrants may be recruited for cyber training camps planned for summer 2010, nonprofit camps run by the military and funded in part by private companies, or internships at agencies including the National Security Agency, the Department of Energy or Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team.'"
Angelina Jolie has a legitimate excuse to stop posturing as an actress and can pursue her true destiny...
Motorcycles, Robots, Space Gossip and More!
they seem to have thousands of enthusiastic youngsters who are already hard at work in this very field
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
If you are asking, you don't qualify.
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Finally, all those years of watching "War Games" might pay off.
"Don't Panic"
>If you are asking, you don't qualify.
Exactly. In fact, if you're any damn good, just break into the HR system, insert yourself, and tell the front desk you forgot your badge when you show up for work the tomorrow morning.
This now concludes your interview.
I'm not pro nor con, just saying. Nice Database of profiles. Do you bite?
Bite? You nuts? I'll hack it, that info is juicy!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Thank you. Finally someone with some caution.
"Hey, we'll interrogate Terrorists."
"But we aren't getting any hits sir."
"Okay. Let's hold a contest to find some."
My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
And if you're the best, you simply give yourself a pension and numerous titles/awards/etc..
No, in real life, the sorts of people who go around shooting their buddies don't get elected President of the USA. They get elected Vice President of the USA.
Eric Baird