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IN AN UNEXPECTED turn of events, the Pentagon is inviting Americans to hack its websites.
Provided you are American and can pass a background check, you can go right ahead and hack, the Pentagon said today.
The US Department of Defence is inviting vetted hackers to test its cybersecurity under a pilot programme that is the first of its kind in the federal government.
Called Hack the Pentagon, the so-called bug bounty programme will give cash awards and other recognition to participants who can identify weaknesses on the Pentagon’s public web pages.
“I am always challenging our people to think outside the five-sided box that is the Pentagon,” Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said.
Inviting responsible hackers to test our cybersecurity certainly meets that test. I am confident this innovative initiative will strengthen our digital defenses and ultimately enhance our national security.
The pilot programme is modelled after similar competitions conducted by major firms to improve network and product security.
The Pentagon announced the initiative while Carter visited Silicon Valley in California.
It is his third visit to the world’s tech heartland and he has repeatedly stressed the need for the Pentagon to innovate and work with tech partners.
Carter also announced plans to establish a Defence Innovation Advisory Board that will be chaired by Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent company.
The board will give Pentagon leaders independent advice on ways to address “future organisational and cultural challenges, including the use of technology alternatives,” Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement.
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Clever idea, tightens security and creates a database on most hackers in the US
Visit the Pentagon before the Pentagon visits you. In other words.
Password is: billclintonscigar123
Instead break into a federal bank it’s more worth it.
They want grey hat hackers. People who are paid to find weaknesses in a system but inform the company and don’t do it for their own gain etc.
Sure they wouldn’t be hackers if they did that! Remain unidentified!
No-one who’s any good at hacking will do what the Pentagon asks them to do. What would be in it for them except announcing themselves. Armistice never when there is a chance it could come back to haunt you.
I watched a doc the other night about how badly the Pentagon are losing to Isis in the online battle. Some of their ideas are unbelievably stupid and many are counterproductive. Kind of frightening in fact.
Sun Tzu might call it ‘manipulation of the divine threads’. And assign one of his various kinds of ground to it, cyber-space, likewise. Including Death Ground. Not much imagination needed to envisage a stuxnet type virus disabling our distribution systems, financial systems, critical e-infrastructure like that. Nine meals away from anarchy we are always.
Its frightening that bunch o wankrs is in control o the most technologicaly advanced military in the world, I live in America now my wife n I moved here in 2003 and progressivly the eehits in charge have gotten stupider not learning shte from the past. N most o the politicians are knuckle dragging pompous air bags huh sound familiar? The country seems on the verge of collapsing from within like Rome did. But politicians everywhere are known to be daft I think to be an American or european politician ye have to fail at least 3 IQ tests n come from at least 4 generation of close blood tie inbreeding their outgoing president is clueless, Clinton will be a natiinal disaster as US military said they will not take orders as commander in chief fron her because o the Lybian fiasco tragedy, Bernie Sanders is a communist wanna be and Trump is a clown he would funny n laughable if it wasnt to scary that he probably will be the next leader. Its an ok country to live in in the southern part of it were i live the rest is a lost cause, n all the states that made up the rebellious confederacy have filed papers to show intent to seperate from america to be their own nation. See our politicians seem harmless compared to the bunch, ours are just childish power hungry gobshtes trying to line their own pockets.
So leave then
I would do it but I’d want to remain ‘Anonymous ‘…..!!
Why pay somebody who is doing for free ? Funny headline
“Provided you are American and pass a background check, go ahead and hack”. I’m not sure whether that’s a bait to identify unpatriotic yanks, or an attempt to eliminate the brains of the rest of the world.
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They missed an opportunity with Gary McKinnon…
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