There already is, and has been since the 90s. It's called a sting operation. They catch a hacker, tell him he now works for a TLA for X years in return for the

There already is, and has been since the 90s. It's called a sting operation. They catch a hacker, tell him he now works for a TLA for X years in return for the charges going away at that time. In my limited experience, by the time the Xth year rolls around the guy is liking the money and normalcy, and knows he's going to be watched like a hawk for the rest of his life. If you are talking about a widespread draft, it wouldn't work I think, because hacking a system is as much an art as dance, and is a kind of improv dance. You can learn to be an ok hacker, especially if you ride on the wings of great tools, but to be a great hacker takes a born talent for the perception of patterns and how they react, kind of what Gibson called nodal thinking. You'd be better off finding people like that at as young an age as possible and inducing them in every positive way possible to come work in cyber. An example of one possible inducement is the NSA's NCAE-C program[1]. [1] https://www.nsa.gov/Academics/Centers-of-Academic-Excellence/ https://www.nsa.gov/Academics/Centers-of-Academic-Excellence...