A Hacker in Charge of Your Tax Dollars?

February 11th, 2010 admin

I read Hacker ‘Mudge’ gets DARPA job by Elinor Mills: Peiter Zatko–a respected hacker known as “Mudge”–has been tapped to be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding research designed to help give the U.S. government tools needed to protect against cyberattacks, CNET has learned. Zatko will become a program manager in mid-March within the Strategic Technologies Office at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is the research and development office for the Department of Defense. His focus will be cybersecurity… Another lure of the job was the budget he will have. Zatko said he doesn’t know exactly how much of the $3.5 billion a …


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