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Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers

Posted by Soulskill on from the must-have-eight-years-experience-and-good-references dept.

Sparrowvsrevolution writes "In the wake of confirmation that the U.S. government was involved in the creation of Stuxnet and likely Flame, a look over job listings on defense contractor sites shows just how explicitly the Pentagon and the firms that service it are recruiting offense-oriented hackers. Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Booz Allen have all posted job ads that require skills like 'exploit development,' have titles like 'Windows Attack Developer,' or asks them to 'plan, execute, and assess an Offensive Cyberspace Operation.'"

4 of 149 comments (clear)

  1. Who better? by jameson71 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who would better know how to defend against these attacks than someone who knows how to develop and implement them?

  2. Openly Post Listings? by busyqth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I'm glad that they're posting the job listings openly.
    Secretly posted listings don't usually have a great response rate.

  3. Cool by Offensive+Hacker · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is right up my alley.

  4. Afghanistan mujahideen by jjohn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't need to explain why training terrorists might not be the best idea for our long term interest, right?