In secret cyberwar game, reservist techies pummel miltary cyberwarriors
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#3This doesn't seem quite right. It says reservists. They may also have roles in civilian life, but they are also part of the Military. That seems a bit deceptive in the title.
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#4If we're trying to use uniformed military troops to hack servers remotely, we deserve to lose any 'cyber war.'
They should be used to gain physical access to hardware and people, for the purpose of applying the xkcd decryption heuristic[1]. Leave the hacking to the experts.
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#5This doesn't seem quite right. It says reservists. They may also have roles in civilian life, but they are also part of the Military. That seems a bit deceptive in the title.
Thanks. We edited the title.
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#6This doesn't seem quite right. It says reservists. They may also have roles in civilian life, but they are also part of the Military. That seems a bit deceptive in the title.
Yeah, the real title of the article is "In supersecret cyberwar game, civilian-sector techies pummel active-duty cyberwarriors". Not sure why it's different here, usually the mods fix any deviation from the original title. I suspect they'll be along shortly.
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They certainly do; there's just no guarantee that the military will make use of them in an appropriate technical position.
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#8If we're trying to use uniformed military troops to hack servers remotely, we deserve to lose any 'cyber war.' They should be used to gain physical access to hardware and people, for the purpose of applying the xkcd decryption heuristic[1]. Leave the hacking to the experts. [1] http://xkcd.com/538/
Just because you can find it on the internet, doesn't mean you can get physical access, even if you are the US armed forces.
First, you have to find it...
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#9If we're trying to use uniformed military troops to hack servers remotely, we deserve to lose any 'cyber war.' They should be used to gain physical access to hardware and people, for the purpose of applying the xkcd decryption heuristic[1]. Leave the hacking to the experts. [1] http://xkcd.com/538/
Why not both?
I say that flippantly, but I mean that quite seriously. With the amount of resources available to the US military, I see no reason why they should constrain themselves to only a subset of capabilities, especially if the one they're cutting is less capital-intensive.
I absolutely agree that the "$5 wrench algorithm" is a rational choice for the military to pursue: not only is it more available to them than to other organizations, it also aligns more closely with some of their existing core competencies. But that doesn't need to, and shouldn't be, pursued to the exclusion of other approaches.
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#10"suits and ties — or tie dyes and blue jeans"
That says it all there, written by the navy times. Seems like there is a bit of a culture problem, and the perception of tech people by the regular army/navy/whatever.
Apparently, anyone with deep technical skills in hacking computer systems is either a corporate drone, or a hippie.