MS Chief Security Officer to work for White House

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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First policy: Dump Windows

[rjamestaylor]

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.

Huh?

[Anonymous DWord]

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?

Re:It's all part of the same kind of thinking.

[jon_c]

I dono, he still looks like a moron