Shachtman participated in the milblogging conference this weekend, along with Matthew Currier Burden, author of The Blog of War and founder of the blog Blackfive.

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Shachtman suggests chipping off the more defense-oriented chunk of the group to create a Cybersecurity Agency or CSA, which could more easily interact with the private sector in scenarios like the Google hacking and other public-private partnerships.

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