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Re:The US military could begin drafting 40-year-old hackers by Synaesthesia on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:35AM (#16574559)
The NSA has had a long history recruiting elite cryptographers and keeping secrets from the public.

Given today’s prevailing attitudes towards China and Russia (ie Cold War 2.0),I’m not shocked.

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Re:The US military could begin drafting 40-year-old hackers by King-Aaron on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @05:30AM (#16574750)
Hackers being involved with the government isn't what surprises me, moreso the consideration of bringing a draft back, after the public backlash from Vietnam. I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word?
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Re:The US military could begin drafting 40-year-old hackers by krapp on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @05:52AM (#16574822)
>I would have expected it to be politically suicidal to even utter the word?

Backlashes are cyclical and sometimes generational - the hippies against the beatniks, the yuppies against the hippies, etc. The current political and cultural zeitgeist in the US seems to be much further right and pro-war than it might have been 40 years ago.

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