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Defense Expert: Hire Hackers and Wage War

Posted by Soulskill on from the institutionalized-anonymous dept.

Phoghat writes "A top defense and cybersecurity expert says the U.S. should stop trying to take aim at expert hackers and start doing a better job of recruiting them. 'Let's just say that in some places you find guys with body piercings and nonregulation haircuts,' says U.S. Naval Postgraduate School professor John Arquilla . 'But most of these sorts of guys can't be vetted in the traditional way. We need a new institutional culture that allows us to reach out to them.'"

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  1. Re:That's how they killed it. by hoggoth · · Score: 3, Informative

    > The fact that our government doesn't do it aggressively too is the odd part

    How do you know our government isn't already doing the same?
    Look at Stuxnet... we have the capability.

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  2. Re:Distrust and lie paved way to these hacks by axlr8or · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, principles can be overridden with ego. Real hackers are about the science. Hackers that are out to damaage things are about their egos. That's actually what mades hiring them fruitless. Once they get bored with the 'I work ops for the FBI' or whatever, they'll move on to, 'I'm a double agent' so and so forth etc...That's why instead of building things they find it much easier and gets them more attention to break things. No, they aren't good bets.