Sunday, July 15, 2012

US Urged To Recruit Master Hackers

US Urged To Recruit Master Hackers To Wage Cyber War On America's Foes -- The Guardian

Top defence expert says the US should avoid 'ridiculous' prosecutions and use hackers' skills to detect and track enemies.

Instead of prosecuting elite computer hackers, the US government should recruit them to launch cyber-attacks against Islamist terrorists and other foes, according to a leading military thinker and government adviser.

The brilliance of hacking experts could be put to use on behalf of the US in the same way as German rocket scientists were enlisted after the second world war, said John Arquilla, a professor of defence analysis at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, in an interview with the Guardian.

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My Comment: John Arquilla is right about Russia being ahead of everyone in this particular field. The stuff that I am reading and hearing about (the advantages of being able to speak Russian) is totally unreported in the West. My only hope is that our capabilities in the West are just as good .... but we are keeping it secret.

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