Iran Recruits More Hackers for Cyberwar Militia

Jeffrey Carr over at Forbes’ Digital Dao blog reports that the Iranian Parliament has ordered the Basij (Iran’s voluntary paramilitary corps) to increase recruitment of hackers to “fight the ‘soft war’ in cyberspace.”  Carr speculates that we may see this cost-effective policy replicated quickly develop across the globe.

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