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PostSubject: Mind-blowing: Digital arms makers building NSA arsenal   Mind-blowing: Digital arms makers building NSA arsenal Icon_minitimeTue May 06, 2014 8:54 pm

On Florida's Atlantic coast, cyber arms makers working for US spy agencies are bombarding billions of lines of computer code with random data that can expose software flaws the US might exploit.

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In Pittsburgh, researchers with a Pentagon contract are teaching computers to scan software for bugs and turn them automatically into weapons. In a converted textile mill in New Hampshire, programmers are testing the combat potential of coding errors on a digital bombing range.

Nationwide, a new league of defence contractors is mining the foundation of the Internet for glitches that can be turned to the country's strategic advantage. They're part of a cyber military industrial complex that's grown up in more than a dozen states and employs thousands of civilians, according to 15 people who work for contractors and the government. The projects are so sensitive their funding is classified, and so extensive a bid to curb their scope will be resisted not only by intelligence agencies but also the world's largest military supply chain.

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/security-it/digital-arms-makers-building-nsa-arsenal-20140505-zr59w.html
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