Pentagon Turns to High-Speed Traders to Fortify Markets Against Cyberattack Experts attend brainstorming sessions to identify how hackers might wreak havoc
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Dozens of high-speed traders and others from Wall Street are helping the Pentagon study how hackers could unleash chaos in the U.S. financial system.Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-turns-to-high-speed-traders-to-fortify-markets-against-cyberattack-1508065202The Department of Defense’s research arm over the past year and a half has consulted executives at high-frequency trading firms and quantitative hedge funds, and people from exchanges and other financial companies, participants in the discussions said. Officials described the effort as an early-stage pilot project aimed at identifying market vulnerabilities.
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I would love to be a fly on the wall in that room.
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fuck the financial system
Hi @contentjunkie Crazy. I like that the military is at least open minded enough to explore different unventional avenues to address possible vulnerabilities.
I wonder how much the traders are getting paid.
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