Given Team Obama's supine behavior in the face of deliberate and demeaning provocations by the North Korean and Burmese regimes, what it calls "the elected president of Iran" - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - will doubtless seek to add to the ignominy of American diplomatic approaches aimed at freeing the latest American captives, fostering improved ties, ending the Iranian nuclear program, etc.

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Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, for instance, made this argument to us when he explained to us why offensive hacking should be included in the Cyber Challenge program for finding and training young hackers, despite the risk of fostering young cybercriminals.

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Earlier this year FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a competition called the Open Internet Challenge, aimed at fostering the creation of apps to detect net neutrality violators, though it has yet to produce a public program.

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