Hackers & Warriors in the US Army - MIT SSP Lecture - Prof. Erica Lonergan

[Tiny Chinaman]

"The growing role of cyberspace in warfighting raises questions about the implications of the interactions between cyber cultures and military cultures. Cyberspace poses unique cultural challenges to military organizations, pitting the decentralized, individualistic, and more risk-acceptant practices that typically constitute cyber cultures against the often highly centralized, group-oriented, and tradition-bound ideas enshrined in many military cultures. We explore the causes, processes, and outcomes of culture change in military organizations in response to cyberspace. Focusing on the U.S. Army as a theory-building case study, we show how a group of “culture entrepreneurs” within the Army attempted to cause cultural change through strategically combining elements of cyber “hacker” culture and the Army’s traditional warfighting culture to define and delimit a new cyber culture within the Army. Overall, we find that cultural change was only partial, resulting in a cyber culture within the Army characterized by internal contradictions. Our findings build on the literature on cultural change. They also suggest broader implications for cyber strategy and military effectiveness. "

 

[notafloridian]

Peace-time governments and militaries around the world have typically solved this issue by contracting everything that needs competent tech people out and paying the 30-40% profit margin that big consulting typically takes.

I don't see how the army could ever re-structure in a way to look attractive to tech people. Any earnest attempt at this show a complete lack of understanding of these two mentalities.

Also, this bitch specifically researching on the "empowerment of cyber people" is hilarious. She's got a PhD in political science and has only had to do with "cyber" as a buzzword - and she's supposed to give the insight on working in tech? I really hope she's just a DEI hire and no-one over there takes her seriously.

 

[Fcret]

You want to attract tech people? Stop revoking security clearances for mundane recreational drug use.

You can literally be a tranny pedophile diaper fetishist and work in NatSec but god forbid you smoke weed once a month. I don't even smoke weed and that level of anal control of my life outside of work irks me. I know a lot of talented engineers and developers who specifically avoid government jobs because of this shit.

 

[NoraKozlowski_*>f7U]

You want to attract tech people? Stop revoking security clearances for mundane recreational drug use.

You can literally be a tranny pedophile diaper fetishist and work in NatSec but god forbid you smoke weed once a month. I don't even smoke weed and that level of anal control of my life outside of work irks me. I know a lot of talented engineers and developers who specifically avoid government jobs because of this shit.

When there's a will, there's a way.

 

[RACISM]

I know a lot of talented engineers and developers who specifically avoid government jobs because of this shit

Working for the government is for niggers.