[ubuntu-my] Defense Deparment Eyes Hacker Con for New Recruits

[Yusof Khalid - FreeBSD / OpenBSD]

uh topik ni masuk ke spam box, ptt tak perasan :)


On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Mohamad Faizul <mypiju at gmail.com> wrote:

> The U.S. Air Force has found an unlikely source of new recruits: The
> yearly Defcon hacking conference, which runs Thursday through Sunday
> in Las Vegas.
>
> Col. Michael Convertino came to Defcon for the first time last year,
> and after finding about 60 good candidates for both enlisted and
> civilian positions decided to come back again.
>
> "The principal reason that I'm here is to recruit," said Convertino,
> commander of the U.S. Air Force's 318th Information Operations Group,
> speaking Thursday during a panel discussion at Defcon's sister
> conference, Black Hat. "We have many empty jobs, empty slots that we
> can't fill."
>
> Federal agencies have only recently begun embracing the hacker crowd.
> When U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) director of futures exploration
> Jim Christy hosted his first Defcon "Meet the Fed" panel on 1999, he
> was one of two people onstage. At this week's Defcon, there may be
> several thousand federal employees in attendance, he said.
>
> Federal government employees first started coming to Defcon to get
> information and build relationships from the hacker community, Christy
> said during an interview, but now it is becoming more acceptable to
> find new recruits at the show, despite its reputation as a subversive
> hacking conference. "The character of Defcon has changed over the
> years," he said in an interview. "Ninety-five percent of the people
> here are good guys."
>
> Federal government employees first started coming to Defcon to get
> information and build relationships from the hacker community, Christy
> said during an interview, but now it is becoming more acceptable to
> find new recruits at the show, despite its reputation as a subversive
> hacking conference. "The character of Defcon has changed over the
> years," he said in an interview. "Ninety-five percent of the people
> here are good guys."
>
> And federal agencies have changed too, particularly since the
> terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said Linton Wells II, the former
> CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), now a research professor
> with the National Defense University in Washington D.C. "The federal
> government has engaged with a lot of people they wouldn't have even
> talked to before 9/11," he said.
>
> Christy expects that a couple of hundred of this year's attendees will
> be recruited by federal agencies, but no one is recruiting more
> aggressively than the Air Force. "The Air Force has always been the
> leader in this area," he said.
>
> Convertino's efforts reflect a government-wide effort to step up
> cyber-security recruiting. On Monday, the DoD co-sponsored an effort
> to recruit 10,000 young computer through a series of cyber-contests,
> known as the U.S. Cyber Challenge.
>
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/169462/defense_deparment_eyes_hacker_con_for_new_recruits.html?tk=rss_news
>
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