[HIB]Project Vigilant searching for volunteer hackers at Defcon

Project Vigilant, a division of BBHC Global LLC (an information security firm), is a private, semi-secret, volunteer-based organization of "cyber spies" that is sometimes employed by the U.S. government to give insight into situations that might require the attention of a more technologically skillful organization than most government agencies are at present. If the name of the organization doesn't ring a bell it is because it has not sought the attention of the public in the past. But, this last couple of days we heard the name repeated over and over again, and it is because its director Chet Uber has chosen Defcon to be the place where he would reveal some details of the organization's goals and methods, involvement in recent happenings, and broadcast their need for more volunteers to swell its ranks.According to Andy Greenberg, Chet Uber was the person who convinced Adrian Lamo - the ex-hacker who notified government officials about Bradley Manning's involvement in the leaking of confidential government documents to Wikileaks - to do his "patriotic duty" and step forward with the information.

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