2012/11/21

Why there are few hackers in Japan

In this few weeks, many Japanese media insists that Japanese both private and public organisations should educate young people to become hackers for protecting their organization against to cyber-terrorism.

On the background, many attacks to Japanese site are exposed recently and we found there are a very few people who can deal with that. Especially, when Japanese police have done several mistaken arrests this year because of misunderstanding illegal access caused by virus software and CSRF(Cross Site Request Forgery), many people disappointed about public organization's acknowledge level of information technology.

I think main reason of luck of hackers(I don't like this usage in this context, anyway) is stiffness of Japanese labor environment, Japanese High tech people tend to stay in one company for a long time as compared other countries, like U.S. or China. There are few people to build their career by moving across public sector and private sector. Farther more there are few to study at high educational organizations when they became adults. Those are all caused by stiffness of Japanese labor market.

Once you drop the rails of hiring, you couldn't recover that. Ordinarily people who work at a big company think that feeling in greater or less. That allows uneven distribution of knowledge about high technology. Eventually, uneven knowledge bring our society inefficiency and unfairness. Those accidents remind me that it is a good time to change the rules regulating Japanese labor market to ease the stiffness.


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