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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. First policy: Dump Windows by rjamestaylor · · Score: 1, Troll
    Or at least firewall all Windows computers away from the Internet and outlaw Outlook (except, maybe, crippled Outlook 97 running on a WinNT 3.51 server -- no chance for MIME-header virms there).

    It'll b interesting to see what he does.

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    1. Re:First policy: Dump Windows by Osty · · Score: 0, Troll

      outlaw Outlook

      <rant>God damned hippy bleeding-heart liberal socialist bastards. Everytime there's something you don't like or agree with, you start shouting, "There should be a law!", and, "Let's outlaw that!" But as soon as something you feel is vital is threatened by law (oh, I dunno, say anything threatened by the DMCA?), you start whining about government. You can't have it both ways.</rant>


      And on a side note, Outlook has had patches that will strip executable content from messages (Outlook XP does this by default). Outlook is a very good PIM app (it's more than just e-mail. Perhaps you're thinking of Outlook Express?), and there's really nothing that compares (okay, so Evolution has pretty much copied the look&feel straight from Outlook, but it's beta software, and still doesn't support all that Outlook does).

  2. Huh? by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 3, Troll

    Was he responsible for all the holes in Microsoft code over the years? No? But you're going to hold him to that because... Or was that just another random MS flame? How do you figure you know anything about what this guy can or cannot do?

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    1. Re:Huh? by Suppafly · · Score: 0, Troll

      yet another wonderfully stupid anology brought to you by the faithful readers at /.

  3. Re:Reminds me of star trek TNG. by Suppafly · · Score: 0, Troll

    how does this get a score 3? its not even a good anology..

  4. Re:more info on Schmidt by linzeal · · Score: 0, Troll

    Correct, thats why security freaks like theo are the only way to go. Humane or not to the people below.

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  5. Re:It's all part of the same kind of thinking. by jon_c · · Score: 1, Troll

    I dono, he still looks like a moron

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