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Why does the government need computer hackers?

Kenbo: I got a news text alert saying "Wanted, computer hackers... to help out government".

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3 years ago

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Probably to access criminals computers or something along those lines, no doubt to invade the privacy of people for investigations.

Invasion of privacy, domestic surveillance, international network hacking, you know, typical government bullshit.

  • Nagare
  • -  1615 pts
  • -  (3 years ago)

Ha. I got the same text alert Kenbo :P

It's to protect the government data from being interrupted and stolen or interfered with. aka keep those social security numbers private and prevent access to our nukes and the like.

  • Kjgmusic
  • -  251 pts
  • -  (3 years ago)

I guess that in order to protect data from hackers, they first need to know how exactly hackers think.

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This is why they hire ex-cons to work for them. There are also legal, "classically-trained" employees that are hired to purposely hack into their own systems to do what is called "penitration testing" to search for vulnerable points of access so they can go back and secure them.

 

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