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Re:Darpa Is Weaponizing Oculus Rift for Cyberwar by mattkrea on Friday May 23, 2014 @10:37AM (#7789520)
> After all, the Pentagon is currently working to hire thousands of digital warriors to fill out its ranks, and many of them may not be familiar with using a command line, let alone writing code. “The genre of people that Cyber Command are working to recruit are fresh out of high school and college,” says Pound.

Why are they recruiting people with no technical skill for a highly technical field?

edit: added bit from the article

Re:Darpa Is Weaponizing Oculus Rift for Cyberwar by swalsh on Friday May 23, 2014 @03:21PM (#7790863)
It seems like if they can make things generic enough for a non technical person to do the job, they can just place a computer at the seat instead. You're probably get faster reactions, and better decisions.