On November 7th, 2011, Spencer Ackerman wrote for Wired how DARPA recently appealed to pony-tailed, "visionary" hackers to help secure US military networks.  To do so, DARPA convened a "cyber colloquium" in which it discussed persistent vulnerabilities in DOD networks that the DOD can't defend on its own.  Speakers at the colloquium included Richard Clarke, who called US networks "as porous as a colander," and DARPA director Regina Dugan, who believes the government will increasingly lose more data.  Gen. Keith Alexander (NSA/CyberComm head) wants a new paradigm where defense of military networks does not mean "diagnosing the malware, cleaning up the systems, and getting set up again and waiting for the next exploitation.”

As for paradigms, Ackerman notes that government officials have a variety of ideas, from secure networks apart from the internet to an internet without anonymity.  Each model has its problems.  Thus, DARPA appealed to these "visionary hackers" to find a new, better model.  The article cited Dugan as saying she wants “the efforts of technical experts at unprecedented levels, including at the development of policy and legal frameworks."  In effect,  DARPA wants hackers to help set policy. 

The source article can be found here.

On November 7th, 2011, Spencer Ackerman wrote for Wired how DARPA recently appealed to pony-tailed, "visionary" hackers to help secure US military networks.  To do so, DARPA convened a "cyber colloquium" in which it discussed persistent vulnerabilities in DOD networks that the DOD can't defend on its own.  Speakers at the colloquium included Richard Clarke, who called US networks "as porous as a colander," and DARPA director Regina Dugan, who believes the government will increasingly lose more data.  Gen. Keith Alexander (NSA/CyberComm head) wants a new paradigm where defense of military networks does not mean "diagnosing the malware, cleaning up the systems, and getting set up again and waiting for the next exploitation.”

As for paradigms, Ackerman notes that government officials have a variety of ideas, from secure networks apart from the internet to an internet without anonymity.  Each model has its problems.  Thus, DARPA appealed to these "visionary hackers" to find a new, better model.  The article cited Dugan as saying she wants “the efforts of technical experts at unprecedented levels, including at the development of policy and legal frameworks."  In effect,  DARPA wants hackers to help set policy. 

The source article can be found here.