If there's any chance of the US competing in a global cyberwar it needs to start recruiting master hackers that can "walk through firewalls," rather than dealing with them solely through tough and alienating prosecution tactics, a leading military strategist has argued. He suggests President Obama extends an olive branch to the hacking community by first pardoning Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who infiltrated US military and Nasa systems in "the biggest military computer hack of all time" a decade ago.
In an editorial for Foreign Policy, professor of defence analysis at the US Naval Postgraduate School John Arquilla urges the US to alter its perspective of the hacker and remedy decades of poor PR that have damaged relations with a community of IT experts it is now in dire need of. In it, he paints a picture of the hacker as peaceful collaborator rather than unwieldy disruptor: "What [the world's best hackers] have in common -- aside from a kind of startling intelligence -- is a deep attraction to the beauty and complexity of cyberspace. They are not motivated by a desire to disrupt; if anything, they are devoted to free, secure flows of information, believing that virtual liberty will often be the herald of freedom in the 'real world'. One need only look at the antecedents of the Arab Spring to see how close to the truth this view is."
By: Liat Clark, Edited by: David Cornish
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