Question

You are one of the top students in your university’s computer science program of 200 students. You are surprised when you are met after class by two representatives from a federal intelligence agency. Over dinner, they talk to you about the increasing threat of cyberterrorist attacks launched on the United States by foreign countries and the need to counter those attacks. They offer you a position on the agency’s supersecret cyber terrorism unit, at a starting salary 50 percent higher than you know other computer science graduates are being offered. Your role would be to both develop and defend against new zero-day exploits that could be used to plant malware in the software used by the government and military computers. Would such a role be of interest to you? What questions might you ask to determine if you would accept their offer of employment?

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