Uncle Sam's Defcon Jam

The Wire August 11 2005 : Radar Online: "In a move akin to your guidance counselor showing up at a kegger to advise you to avoid throwing your life away, officials from the Defense Department visited the 12-sided die-chucking, ponytailed masses in Vegas for the national hackers convention, Defcon. Hackers responded by offering free T-shirts to anyone who outed a federal agent at what could be called the lamest undercover operation since a young Donald Rumsfeld tried to infiltrate the Dungeons & Dragons convention in '76 dressed as a wizard. The Defense Department was actually on a recruiting mission. For what, no one would say specifically, although they are often rumored to be looking for geeks who could help them launch computer attacks on foreign governments. Jim Christy, director of the Pentagon's Cyber Crime Institute (they teach that?), said recruiters weren't looking for criminals. "We're looking for people who haven't crossed that line yet. You've got to get folks with the right morals," he said."