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** The police also sometimes hires them for training the recruits. This tends to be only the case with non-violent criminals however - thieves, pickpockets, burglars and frauds.
** Plus many large corporations will hire hackers to try to break their systems and advise them on how to beef it up.
**Part of the thing is that cyberwarfare is so young a phenomenon that for a while there was no other way to get a White Hat but to convince a Black Hat to change sides. This may already be changing.
* During [[World War II]] the [[OSS]] obtained a number of skilled criminals from prisons to train it's agents for specialty skills; most agencies maintain a number of state-sponsored safecrackers, pickpockets, etc. Of course when you think about it, those criminals recruited were the criminals that got ''caught'' but they presumably had to make do.
* Averted by casinos (in the US, at least), which DO NOT hire convicted cheaters to catch cheaters.
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