Why Silicon Valley Hackers Still Won’t Work With the Military, and Vice Versa

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By Kari Paul
Contributor
Motherboard.vice.com
February 26, 2015

In the fight to defend cyberspace from its enemies, the US military is 
rushing to hire as many skilled hackers as it can. But no one is really 
sure how to get the two cultures to coexist.

Although the feds have implied they’re willing to loosen up some of their 
policies so that weed-smoking, basement-dwelling hacker stereotypes can 
work for government agencies, there are still some significant hurdles 
preventing the two industries from working together in earnest.

At the first annual Future of War Conference on Wednesday, a panel of 
experts weighed in on the simmering Silicon Valley culture clash after an 
audience member asked why the US doesn’t just militarize Silicon Valley if 
private sector technology is so far ahead of the government’s own.

“The real reason is DoD does not have a culture that would allow them in 
any way shape or form to manage a silicon valley operation,” said Brad 
Allenby, a faculty member at Arizona State University Center on the Future 
of War. “Someone high on coke, Skittles and slinging code is not a good 
candidate for basic training,” he later joked.

Peter Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at the think tank New America 
Foundation, said the chasm between the private tech sector and the 
government is only widening—a trend that will have big implications for 
the “extraordinarily difficult” technological components of future war.

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