The U.S. Cyber Challenge aims to identify 10,000 patriotic geeks and make them experts
The potential threats against the United States from malicious foreign hackers are as poorly understood as they are scary. China’s military has trained more than 60,000 “information troops,” and its official doctrine calls for pre-emptive strikes on networks of nations it sees as a threat. Russian hackers—probably with Kremlin support—have attacked Internet sites in pro-Western Estonia and Georgia. And a mysterious “worm,” Conficker, infects an estimated 5 million computers around the world. Authorities don’t know who controls it; cyberintelligence expert Jeffrey Carr calls it “the equivalent of a nuclear bomb” that could shut down the entire Internet.
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