FC: Uncle Sam wants a few good... hackers
From
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date
Wed, 05 Jan 2000 15:52:06 -0500
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33443,00.html
The Military Will A'Hacking Go
by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
12:30 p.m. 5.Jan.2000 PST
WASHINGTON -- In a move to enlist
hackers as part of the nation's defense,
the US military is drafting a plan to
penetrate and disrupt the computers of
enemy nations, officials said Wednesday.
"If you can degrade the air defense
network of an adversary through
manipulating 1s and 0s, that might be an
elegant way to do it," said General
Richard Myers of the US Space Command,
which is coordinating the effort.
Myers told reporters that Pentagon
planners are currently devising general
hacker-war procedures, which must be
approved by the Secretary of Defense
and should be complete by October.
[...]
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