A top defense and cybersecurity expert says the U.S. should stop trying to take aim at expert hackers and start doing a better job of recruiting them.
"Let's just say that in some places you find guys with body piercings and non-regulation haircuts," U.S. Naval Postgraduate School professor John Arquilla said in an interview with The Guardian published today. "But most of these sorts of guys can't be vetted in the traditional way. We need a new institutional culture that allows us to reach out to them."
Arquilla argues that there are about 100 "master hackers" around the world that can break into just about any network. And although "most" of them are currently in Asia and Russia, the U.S. should do everything it can to hire them and allow them to launch cyberwar on the country's enemies. Arquilla specifically sees an opportunity for hackers to take down Al-Qaeda.
"This global network simply can't thrive without the World Wide Web and Internet," he said of Al-Qaeda. "It can't operate without it, or if it does, at a greatly reduced level."
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