Hackers sought as allies in war on terrorism and cyber crime by Delia Cruceru

The US federal agents are trying to convince hackers to help them in fighting terrorism and cyber crimes. At DefCon, the international gathering of hackers in Las Vegas, where almost 6000 hackers and computer security specialist made it to the conference, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Defense and the FBI were present too. NSA vulnerability analysis chief Tony Sager spoke at DefCon in a try to bring hackers to be allies for cyber security. "I think we are part of a larger community. In the old days it was about what we found was really precious, because what we had was all there was. Now, it's less important what we find and more important what everybody finds," Sager said. Although hackers and federals got along well, many of the hackers are concerned about the privacy matters. One hacker from Leuven University in Belgium, Len Sassaman said that "the balance of privacy and public safety swung way out of whack with people on the Internet being so trackable. I believe the need for privacy is fundamental to a working democracy." Roger Dingledine, working on an "anonymity network" called Tor, which tracks who is doing what online said he is happy that NSA finally realized that other people can help them. "The NSA spent decades trying to do things themselves and that didn't work," Dingledine said.

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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