The New Cyber-GI Bill???
>>Federal agency recruits hacker teens
VIDEOCNN's Ann Kellan looks at a 15-year-old hacker being recruited
by the NSA
August 26, 1999
Web posted at: 11:21 a.m. EDT (1521 GMT)
cnn.com
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut (CNN) -- What image comes to mind when you
hear the word hacker?
If it's someone evil or malicious, somebody breaking into computers
illegally, you're only partly right.
For instance, Mike Hudack is your typical teenager. He hangs out
with friends, loves pizza and argues with his parents that he really
is old enough to drive.
So why would the National Security Agency be interested in him?
Because this 16-year-old is a computer whiz, a hacker.
"Not every hacker, not everyone who calls themselves a hacker, is a
bad person," Mike says. "Most hackers are not malicious. They are
good people."
Mike was 12 years old when he bought his first computer.
"And I took it home, and I loved it so much," Mike says. "One of the
first things I did with it is I took it apart and then put it back
together."
He even set up his own hacker news Web site, offering security
advice to government agencies. That is how he got the NSA's
attention. Hudack =A0 "They visited my site every day and I e-mailed
them, they e-mailed me back, telling me about their recruitment
program," Mike says.
The NSA says it recruits students like Mike and will pay four years
of college tuition, room and board and even a salary.
In exchange, students work summers and at least five years after
college for the NSA.
It's tempting for someone like Mike who baby-sits every day after
school and during the summer to make a buck.
But he wonders if he can work for the NSA, given that he disagrees
with some its policies.
"I would have to think long and hard before I did it," Mike says.
Links:
Mike Hudack's Web page
OSAll Network: computer security news & information:
aviary-mag.com
The National Security Agency
nsa.gov:8080/>>
Did I just come out from sleeping under a rock???
>>The NSA..........will pay four years of college tuition, room and board and even a salary>>???????
>>In exchange, students work summers and at least five years after
college for the NSA.>>?????????
I guess this how our government is building "their" "Bridge To The 21st Century??"
Paying hackers a salary while offering four years of tuition and a guaranteed job for 5 years after college???
Is anyone else aware of this program? Somehow I didn't see this in my Representative's listing of initiatives that my tax dollars is paying for.
Taken together this stuff does not give me the "warm and fuzzies".
Anyone else waking up out there??
Thoughts Peter, Toy, others??
We all need DigitalHelp!
If we don't get some, "DigitalMe" will turn out to be just another nice idea that never found a home.
Peace.
GO!! |
