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Government, Hackers Learn To Make Nice

InformationWeek: It's not every day you hear the chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission brag about learning how to pick a lock. But that small side trip during the recent Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas proved illuminating for the FTC's Lorrie Faith Cranor and underscored the changing relationship between government and the hacker community.

Cranor, along with Cris Thomas, aka "Space Rogue" and strategist for Tenable Network Security, were part of a panel discussion in Washington today that examined how this relationship has shifted from its adversarial nature to something more cooperative -- and even trusting. The discussion was part of a "cyber risk" discussion series sponsored by the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.

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