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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. In Other News by Satai · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is fairly reminiscient of other stupid crossover attempts by "artists" speaking outside their medium.

  2. I wish... by maunleon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We could moderate topics. Yet another random Anti-MS flame. What does have a person in charge of internal IT infrastructure have to do with security holes in IIS and Outlook?

    I wonder if the whole topic would be marked offtopic. It's too silly to qualify as Troll.

  3. Re:First policy: Dump Windows by Almace · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod this up please!!!!
    20 sec rule can suck on it

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