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It seems to me that be most bang-for-buck way the FBI could counter the cyber threat is to contribute security reviews and patches to popular open-source softwa
by corysama 10y ago
It seems to me that be most bang-for-buck way the FBI could counter the cyber threat is to contribute security reviews and patches to popular open-source software. "Get paid full time to do security patches for Open Source" seems like a good recruiting call as well.
In a round-about way, this letter indicates that they are doing some of that. But, I'm not clear how much.
- dimino 10y agoThat's not their role, though. Someone has to be actively tracking and apprehending hacker groups operating within the US. Sure, they can find and help fix holes, but the US needs a government organization tracking cyber threats, and stopping them when they can.