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The Military Will A'Hacking Go by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)

12:30 p.m. 5.Jan.2000 PST WASHINGTON -- In a move to enlist hackers as part of the nation's defense, the US military is drafting a plan to penetrate and disrupt the computers of enemy nations, officials said Wednesday.

"If you can degrade the air defense network of an adversary through manipulating 1s and 0s, that might be an elegant way to do it," said General Richard Myers of the US Space Command, which is coordinating the effort.

Myers told reporters that Pentagon planners are currently devising general hacker-war procedures, which must be approved by the Secretary of Defense and should be complete by October.

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