http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/06/aquilla_urges_mckinnon_pardon_us/ By Phil Muncaster The Register 6th February 2013 A leading US military strategist has urged the Obama administration to soften its stance if it wants to attract the kind of “master hackers” that would enable it to compete in cyber space with China, starting with the symbolic gesture of pardoning Gary McKinnon. John Arquilla, a US Naval Postgraduate School professor and advisor to former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, wrote in Foreign Policy that the military needs to broaden its recruitment approach if it’s to fulfill a plan to grow Cyber Command five-fold to nearly 5,000 members. Aside from persuading IT professionals to sign-up and “click for their country”, or using artificial intelligence, the best way to build out capacity in this area is to recruit more hackers, he argued. However, by failing to act quickly it runs the risk of losing out on recruiting the small number of world-class “master hackers” who can “walk right through firewalls”. [...] ______________________________________________ Visit the InfoSec News Security Bookstore Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.orgReceived on Tue Feb 05 2013 - 23:36:14 PST
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