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MS Chief Security Officer to work for White House

Posted by chrisd on from the h4x0rs-r3j01c3-m4dl3y dept.

NerveGas writes "An Interesting People message reports that Howard Schmidt, Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor, will be leaving MS to work as a security adviser for the White House. With the track record that Microsoft has in the area of computer security, this strikes me as a very bad move." CD: you'd think people would examine the job someone did at thier previous job before offering them a new one. Isn't this is like putting Capt. Hazelwood in charge of an oil tanker?

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  1. Job qualifications by shlong · · Score: 5, Funny

    you'd think people would examine the job someone did at thier previous job before offering them a new one.

    What you mean like the job GW did in Texas? This guy should fit right in.

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  2. Who better to help you implement Magic Lantern by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 5, Funny

    than one of the people involved in allowing the very exploits you want to exploit to exist in the first place?

    ;)

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  3. MS Security Guy probably didn't write code... by abh · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know how we all love to flame Microsoft, but if the guy was the head of MS Security, odds are he was an executive who never wrote a line of code.


    He's guaranteed not to have anything to do with holes in MS products.


    A better thing to look at would be how often was Microsoft's network hacked.

  4. Reminds me of star trek TNG. by nuintari · · Score: 3, Funny

    No one would think a kligon would make a good ship's counseler, and I don't think that an android would make a very good captain.

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  5. Checking on someone's previous work. by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Funny
    CD: you'd think people would examine the job someone did at thier previous job before offering them a new one.
    <cheap shot> Yeah, you might.</cheap shot>
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  6. Not really. by ChrisBennett · · Score: 5, Funny
    Isn't this is like putting Capt. Hazelwood in charge of an oil tanker?

    Actually, no. Captain Hazelwood was drunk at the wheel before the accident. Apparently he was a fine captain when sober. Microsoft has bad security whether or not you consider them to be drunk.

  7. So does this mean ... by jstockdale · · Score: 2, Funny

    that we won't have to go on tours to see the whitehouse anymore?

    tourist> yay ... the backdoor's open
    tourist> common guys lets go

    security officer> um sir please don't tell too many people about this ... it is a secure facility

    tourist> er ... ok
    *walks inside*

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  8. it seems to me by fyonn · · Score: 5, Funny

    that he's not so much leaving microsoft as merely changing departments. it's all the same company isn't it?

    dave

  9. Re:DEF CON 10? by mlafranc · · Score: 2, Funny

    From DEFCON.org

    DEF CON 10 will be August 2nd-4th, 2002 in Las Vegas. More details soon.

  10. Not quite by JediTrainer · · Score: 3, Funny

    More like:

    "Howard Schmidt, Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor"

    Sure, he gives advise. But nowhere did it say that they actually listen.

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