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Cyber security minister ridiculed over s'kiddie hire plan
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Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:17:41 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/29/cyberminister_gaffe/ By John Leyden The Register 29th June 2009 Security experts have strongly criticised suggestions by a government minister that former hackers might play a key role in Britain's newly announced cybersecurity strategy. Lord West, the Home Office security minster, made the controversial suggestion that the government had recruited former hackers to work in its new Cyber Security Operations Centre, a key components of the UK government’s cybersecurity strategy announced last week. West told the BBC that the government had avoided employing "ultra, ultra criminals" but needed the mad skillz expertise of former miscreants. "You need youngsters who are deep into this stuff… If they have been slightly naughty boys, very often they really enjoy stopping other naughty boys," he said. [...]
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