[ISN] IDF says enlisting hackers

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 01:27:49 -0600 (CST)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4025751,00.html

By Boaz Fyler
YNews News
02.08.11

IDF Spokesman Avi Benayahu said Tuesday that the army is currently in 
the process of enlisting "new media fighters". 

Benayahu told a panel on the subject of "the digital medium as strategic 
weapon" that the army was searching for "little hackers who were born 
and raised online".
 
"We screen them with special care and train them to serve the state," 
the spokesman told the panel, which was part of the Herzliya Conference.

He added that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally 
supporting the venture and that he had supplied a budget of NIS 6 
million ($1.63 million) for the enlistment of 120 soldiers. 

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