Pentagon Assembling Their Own Group Of Hackers

Left; River Phoenix, Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd and Sidney Poitier play hackers paid to test companies electronic security in the film Sneakers: and a Minuteman III missile inside a silo. Left; Everett: USAF

To Battle Computer Hackers, The Pentagon Trains Its Own -- Time Magazine

After years of building firewalls and other defenses against relentless hacker attacks, the Pentagon is going over to the dark side of computer warfare. Only ethically, of course. The Defense Department, like most large organizations, has recognized that no wall is high enough to keep out skilled and determined hackers for keeps. Instead, it has decided that in order to anticipate and thwart those attacks, it needs to know what the hackers know.

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My Comment: The line that I liked in this report is the following ....

..... "We are creating cyber-bodyguards" ....

I prefer cyber-security guards .... but it is still a good line.