US Officials Go to Hackers' Convention to Recruit

US Officials Go to Hackers' Convention to Recruit

....The Pentagon is rumored to employ hackers to
attack foreign networks...

...Feds have been a key part of the Defcon audience
since its inception in 1992, though they are required
to stay at off-site hotels...

...Tensions between feds and hackers ran high in 2001
when the FBI arrested Russian programmer Dmitri
Skylarov at the conference for writing a program that
could break copy protection on electronic books...

...government employees now account for nearly half of
the audience...

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