Submission + - Judge Reviewing Pirate Bay Trial Bias Is Removed (wired.com)
oh-my-god writes: The judge assigned to review whether the trial judge in the Pirate Bay trial was biased has now been removed — for bias, of course.
Submission + - Pentagon Seeks High School Hackers
Hugh Pickens writes: "Forbes reports on a new military-funded program aimed at leveraging an untapped resource: the US' population of geeky high school and college students. The Cyber Challenge will create three new national competitions for high school and college students intended to foster a young generation of cybersecurity researchers. The contests will test skills applicable to both government and private industry: attacking and defending digital targets, stealing data, and tracing how others have stolen it. The Air Force will run a so-called Cyber Patriot competition focused on network defense, fending off a "Red Team" of hackers attempting to steal data from the participants' systems. The Department of Defense's Cyber Crime Center will expand its Digital Forensics Challenge, a program it has run since 2006, to include high school and college participants, tasking them with problems like tracing digital intrusions and reconstructing incomplete data sources. In the most controversial move, the SANS Institute, an independent organization, plans to organize the Network Attack Competition, which challenges students to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software, compromise enemy systems and steal data. Talented entrants may be recruited for cyber training camps planned for summer 2010, nonprofit camps run by the military and funded in part by private companies, or internships at agencies including the National Security Agency, the Department of Energy or Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emergency Response Team. "In the 1950s and 1960s, Sputnik and the space race inspired young people to pursue careers in science and engineering," reads a draft of the statement. "We have a similar opportunity to inspire today's young people to tackle the important challenges we face, including cybersecurity."
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