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 …

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