Photo: Peiter "Mudge" Zatko(Credit: BBN Technologies)
Hacker 'Mudge' Gets DARPA Job -- CNET
Peiter Zatko--a respected hacker known as "Mudge"--has been tapped to be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding research designed to help give the U.S. government tools needed to protect against cyberattacks, CNET has learned.
Zatko will become a program manager in mid-March within the Strategic Technologies Office at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is the research and development office for the Department of Defense. His focus will be cybersecurity, he said in an interview with CNET on Tuesday.
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My Comment: I mentioned in a post a few years back that I know that the U.S. will start to get serious about cyber security and cyberwar when they start to hire the hackers and the technical wizards that made the web an interesting place when it first started.
Hmmmm .... it appears that they are now getting serious.
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