[ISN] Justice Department to Hire Computer Hackers

From: mea culpa (jerichoat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 06 1998 - 20:36:18 PDT

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Justice Department to Hire Computer Hackers -- Business Week

     Business Editors/Computer, Interactive & Government Writers

     NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 1998--Wanted: Hackers to break into
the Justice Dept. computer network. Under a program known as Operation Get
Cracking, the Justice Dept. sought members of the computer underground at
late July's Def Con hackers' conference in Las Vegas, BUSINESS WEEK reports
in its August 17 issue. Attorney General Janet Reno has quietly committed
$1 million to hire up to 16 hackers to test the Department's networks, says
a source at Justice, which would neither confirm nor deny the operation.


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