[Genesis]

I'd never qualify, but if I did, I wouldn't want to get involved as in that way I would lose my anonymity. I'd become a marked "hacker". Security clearances for Government officials are enormously thorough as I understand, and I'd imagine in Australia even more so, since it's a typical British colony type Government with layers of bureaucracy, paper work and now probably creating a database of hackers and connecting them electronically with all of their other databases - cross referencing them. I doubt once one has been made part of the system, that one would be able to bale out easily.

Think the only way it could work is if the hacker had the option to join "anonymously" and maintain his/her anonymity. Otherwise for me it would be the Government killing all of the originality of the hacker, by trying to control the hacker.

I'm just naturally suspicious and cynical of Governments, their systems and their culture. It runs complete counter to the originality of anything creative, including hacking.