The Department of Defense has started "CyberCorps," a kind of nerd ROTC. Haxx0r kids get trained, get a Master's degree, hang out with creepy three-letter-agency spooks, then go to work for the Man for two years.
Getting paid to hack using some of the most high-tech equipment on the planet might be worth a few sacrifices and a background check, particularly if it means he can work for a super-cool agency like the NSA.
"That agency didn't even admit it existed until a few years ago," says Mark. "You've got to figure if you want to get into the really hairy stuff, that's where it's gonna be."
He says he really has no idea what kind of "hairy stuff" the NSA might be up to, though he assumes it involves the same type of high-tech gadgetry as was portrayed in the hacker-friendly movie "Enemy of the State."
(Thanks, Scott!)
