How Benjamin Franklin is inspiring defenders to protect critical infrastructure
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The digital world is (mostly) on fire. Two new projects have tapped hackers to try and put it out.
After a fire that started on a ship near Philadelphia in 1730 hit land and raged through the city’s streets, Benjamin Franklin formed the country’s first volunteer fire department. Nearly three centuries later, a pair of cybersecurity experts are drawing on that colonial call to direct action for a new-age fight: volunteer hackers vs. malicious actors intent on taking down critical infrastructure.
With the Franklin Project, the brainchild of DEF CON founder Jeff Moss and former White House acting Principal Deputy National Cyber Directory Jake Braun, volunteer hackers are enlisted to help protect some of the most vulnerable sectors in real-world settings, while also serving as resources for some of the thorniest national security and foreign policy debates.
“They want to help, they want to get involved, they want to give back,” Braun told CyberScoop during DEF CON in Las Vegas. “They just need a venue to do it.”
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