Elite US cyber team courts hackers to fight terrorists: "An elite US cyber team that has stealthily tracked Internet villains for more than a decade pulled back its cloak of secrecy to recruit hackers at a DefCon gathering here Sunday.
Vigilant was described by its chief Chet Uber as a sort of cyber 'A-Team' taking on terrorists, drug cartels, mobsters and other enemies on the Internet.
'We do things the government can't,' Uber said. 'This was never supposed to have been a public thing.'
Vigilant is an alliance of slightly more than 600 volunteers and its secret ranks reportedly include chiefs of technology at top firms and former high"
