(Bloomberg Business) -- It's a seller's market for thecyber war's special forces.

Just ask Scott Davies, 30, who left a careersnooping on Australia's enemies in December for a similar gigat FireEye Inc. Or Brian Varner, 35, who swapped a job with theU.S. Department of Defense breaking into networks in the MiddleEast and other hot zones to be a security engineer at SymantecCorp.

"I have a blank canvas to paint whatever I want," says Varner,exulting at the lack of bureaucracy, not to mention hisability to work remotely from Florida.

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