A technician hurriedly slings his backpack over his shoulders, straps on his M9 pistol, and bolts out of the transport with his squad of commandos in a hail of gunfire. As soon as his team reaches the compound, he whips out a laptop and starts deploying a rootkit to the target server, bullets whizzing overhead all the while. This might sound like the action movie of a hacker’s dreams, but Army Cyber Institute’s recruits are training to do just that. At Chicago’s Thotcon hacker conference last week, attendees got a glimpse of the action.
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What Internet-Connected War Might Look Like
Posted by: Jonathan Terrasi May 10, 2017 05:00 AMA technician hurriedly slings his backpack over his shoulders, straps on his M9 pistol, and bolts out of the transport with his squad of commandos in a hail of gunfire. As soon as his team reaches the compound, he whips out a laptop and starts deploying a rootkit to the target server, bullets whizzing overhead all the while. This might sound like the action movie of a hacker’s dreams, but Army Cyber Institute’s recruits are training to do just that. At Chicago’s Thotcon hacker conference last week, attendees got a glimpse of the action.