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US mulls drafting gray-haired hackers during times of crisis

DavCrav

What are they going to do? Point rifles at you and say "You build database now"? You might be able to draft a naive 18 year old to fight, because he dies otherwise. But unless this coding is taking place in a warzone, that's going to be harder with a 45-year old software designer.

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