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

[Shaiffulnizam Mohamad]

sama ngan I, masuk spambox, ni mesti ada orang tandakan sebagai SPAM.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Yusof Khalid - FreeBSD /
OpenBSD<fryshadow at gmail.com> wrote:
> uh topik ni masuk ke spam box, ptt tak perasan :)
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> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Mohamad Faizul <mypiju at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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