US military advisor calls for McKinnon pardon, recruitment of "master hackers"

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/06/aquilla_urges_mckinnon_pardon_us/

By Phil Muncaster
The Register
6th February 2013

A leading US military strategist has urged the Obama administration to soften 
its stance if it wants to attract the kind of “master hackers” that would 
enable it to compete in cyber space with China, starting with the symbolic 
gesture of pardoning Gary McKinnon.

John Arquilla, a US Naval Postgraduate School professor and advisor to former 
defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, wrote in Foreign Policy that the military 
needs to broaden its recruitment approach if it’s to fulfill a plan to grow 
Cyber Command five-fold to nearly 5,000 members.

Aside from persuading IT professionals to sign-up and “click for their 
country”, or using artificial intelligence, the best way to build out capacity 
in this area is to recruit more hackers, he argued.

However, by failing to act quickly it runs the risk of losing out on recruiting 
the small number of world-class “master hackers” who can “walk right through 
firewalls”.

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