Death Metal sends this excerpt from an AP report: "General Dynamics scoop high tech* put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland confidence agency seeking someone who could 'think like the bad guy.' Applicants, it said, must apprehend hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze infobahn traffic and make out vulnerabilities in the federal systems. In the Pentagon's budget request submitted last week, Defense assistant Robert Gates said the Pentagon will buildup the number of cyberexperts it can train each year from 80 to 250 by 2011. With warnings that the US is ill-prepared for a cyberattack, the White House conducted a 60-day study of how the sovereignty can better manage and use applied science (PDF) to protect all from the electrical grid and stock markets to tax data, airline flight systems, and nuclear launch codes. ... Nadia Short, vice board at General Dynamics untimely whole story* Systems, said the job posting for ethical hackers fills a critical need for the government."

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