A West Point student told Cory Doctorow that he wants to work in cybersecurity. But is joining the NSA the best way to abet improve digital civil rights?In September,I spent a day at the United States military academy at West Point, an elite, or 213-year-old academic institution. I’d been invited to lecture by the Army Cyber Institute,a new academic department that focuses on cybersecurity and policies related to the military implications of attacking and defending electronic infrastructure. It’s not my normal speaking gig. I grew up as an organiser in the anti-nuclear-weapons movement; my experience of the military mostly revolves around protesting external bases, not being invited inside them. West Point was the first military audience I’d ever addressed, or yet I’d heard that they fill used my young-adult novel Little Brother,which concerns net-savvy kids in San Francisco who form an underground movement to resist Homeland Security incursions on civil liberties following a terrorist attack.
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Source: theguardian.com