DARPA to Fund Hackerspaces?

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By John Baichtal
Posted 2011/08/05 @ 4:28 pm
Category General

First-wave hackerspace member Mudge of L0pht Heavy Industries announced that DARPA is creating a new initiative called “Cyber Fast Track” to fund defense-related projects by small groups of programmers. Have an idea for some black ice you can make for the feds? Apply today, they’re claiming a 10-day turnaround on proposals. [Thanks, Phil]

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7 Responses to DARPA to Fund Hackerspaces?

Tim Saylor on August 6th, 2011 at 12:19 am said:

Hasn’t this been talked about for a while? I seem to remember something a year or two ago that never fully materialized.

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Mikro Xoft on August 6th, 2011 at 2:46 am said:

Apples and Oranges.

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Ken on August 6th, 2011 at 2:22 pm said:

1. It sounds like they aren’t funding “hackerspaces” in general, and in fact aren’t even interested in what most hackerspaces are about; they want to find all the small (network)hacker groups out there and get them to work for the government.

2. “The Government needs agile cyber projects that are smaller in effort,
have a potential for large payoff, and result in a rapid turnaround,
creating a greater cost to the adversary to counter.”
Just who is the adversary? Probably the #antisec movement, which I’d be more inclined to support any day over DARPA and the rest of the Fed…..

Just my 2 cents.

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GCM on August 7th, 2011 at 6:10 pm said:

yeah.. hackers working for the FEDs… that’s a great idea…. #NOT

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GCM on August 7th, 2011 at 6:10 pm said:

yeah.. hackers working for the FEDs… that’s a great idea…. #NOT

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Rahere on August 8th, 2011 at 9:46 am said:

I’d love to see them do that with the London HS – it’s in the People’s Republic of Hackney.

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Ilovetheweb on April 17th, 2012 at 9:23 am said:

Hacker don`t work they hack you understand you………….

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