The Associated Press (AP) reported that the US Federal authorities are looking for hackers NOT to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the United State's networks. (http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090419/ap_on_hi_te/us_cyber_security)
The US government according to the report is looking for people who could "think like the bad guy", and applicants must "understand hackers' tools and tactics and be able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems".
This was already done by the Philippines, reformed(?) hackers are already in the government's payroll but according to some of them, they could not do anything because their "handlers" -- the agency who took them in are clueless on what to do. Only the NBI among all the agencies have a credible cybercrime unit. The hackers are now under a different unit.
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