'Hack the Pentagon' and Get Paid Legally in New Program
Source: ABC News
'Hack the Pentagon' and Get Paid Legally in New Program
By LEE FERRAN LUIS MARTINEZ
Mar 2, 2016, 1:02 PM ET
Attention hackers: Time to re-watch WarGames and crack your knuckles, the Pentagon is about to pay you to break into some government systems.
Today Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the militarys first-ever Hack the Pentagon program in which vetted hackers will be paid a bug bounty to find vulnerabilities in what Carter called an unprecedented effort to test our digital security.
The hackers wont be set loose on just any Pentagon systems, however; they'll only be allowed to find holes in a predetermined asset in a controlled, limited duration program.
This bug bounty will not compromise any of the departments critical, mission-facing systems, Carter said. Instead, it will challenge our digital security in new and innovative ways.
Carter said that participants in the program will have to be registered and to submit to a background check before taking to the keyboard.
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