This article is indistinguishable from satire. I know that’s cliche, but this is honest-to-god something someone here would have banged out in an afternoon as a niche joke. I don’t have anything clever to say, you just have to read it.

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    7 months ago

    “Both the NSA and the DOD have a ton of talented hackers, yet when it comes to actually performing disruptive cyber operations, for some reason we as a country are just frozen and scared,” Caceres says. “And that needs to change.”

    healthcare pls

    [The hacker and his handler] spent much of the past two years advocating within the US government for that far-more-brazen approach to state-sponsored cyberattacks. They describe it as a special forces model: single hackers or small teams carrying out nimble, targeted digital disruptions, in contrast to the US’s traditionally slower and more bureaucratic approach to cyberwarfare.

    Yes we need script kiddie cyber death squads.