You’ve gotta love the hypocrisy of these people. I suppose the billions of hollow point bullets that the DHS is purchasing is simply not enough to make Janet Napolitano sleep well at night. Of course, when real heroes like Aaron Swartz engage in civil disobedience using computers they are hounded using the CFAA and threatened with decades in prison until they kill themselves, but if you work for Big Sis then you are referred to as “hackers for good.” Long live Oceania! From The Washington Times:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the department is seeking skilled computer hackers — primarily college-age students — to help with the “new and rapidly growing threats” to America’s cybersecurity systems, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
They will be “hackers for good,” and will join a force of about 600 already being trained by DHS, Ms. Napolitano said, during Tuesday remarks to reporters.
The Air Force has an internship program for high-schoolers to hone their hacking skills, with the ultimate aim being to train them for work in the military’s Cyber Emergency Response Team unit, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
DHS is hoping to capitalize on this skill set at an early age — thus, the recruiting reach-out to high-school students.
How incredibly creepy is that.
Full article here.
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Conflate the just of this article with the Drone Wars (coming to a state near you) and you have “Ender’s Game.” Now that’s creepy.
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Where else you going to find the young talent they need? I’m sure they will offer pay off student debt as part of package. Cyber ROTC
Excellent insight. They’ve made education debt not dischargeable through bankruptcy (it’s for LIFE), but if you’re willing to become part of the control grid or a drone pilot, you can have your life back! Talk about two bad choices: a lifetime of debt slavery, or a lifetime of guilt and regret.
I guess this answers the question, For Pete sake, who in his right mind would sign up to be part of the control grid? Someone they own anyway.
I think you’ve spotted an emerging strategy for filling those jobs freedom-loving people abhor.
It reminds me of the recent US Navy campaigns. US propaganda is in full effect:
Perhaps Bitcoin wallets are among the “new and rapidly growing threats” to Janet’s restful sleep that these hackers are meant to hack into “for good”.