Bush Names New Cyber Security Czar

goombah99 writes "The Washington Post reports that Cybersecurity "czar" Richard Clarke has confirmed widespread reports that he is leaving the White House, to be replaced by former microsoft security chief Howard Schmidt. He was also part of the Air Force's 'Computer Crime and Information Warfare division'. In related news, the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace has received Bush's signature and will be released to the public in the next few weeks. Clark's blunt staements on the to the need to avoid erosion of privacy rights is rumored to have rubbed the administration the wrong way, prompting his exit. Anyone know how Schmitt will view the relative security of closed versus open source?" Nothing says "Security" better to me than "Former Microsoft Security Chief".

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Re:Can anyone say Fox watching the Henhouse???

[SN74S181]

Unfortunately, Schneier is a cryptography expert, not a security expert.

They aren't the same thing.

Grow Up!

[red5]

Nothing says "Security" better to me than "Former Microsoft Security Chief".

Nothing says lame journalism like cheep potshots at Microsoft employees.

Good choice, MS has most security breaches

[bkontr]

Microsoft on security:

Blame your customers for not applying patches soon enough....but forget to mention you haven't applied them yourself.

Blame your customers for not being trained enough on your software products.....but don't let them catch on that they've been beta testing final realeses for bugs you supposedly fixed awhile back.

Bush uses linux for the Whitehouse.gov site (Bush uses Macs also) and the Department of Homeland Security swithched from Win2k/MS SQL to Linux/Oracle. It looks like the government TRUSTS Linux/Unix for security, but to return the favor for campaign contributions selected someone from Microsoft.....to contain the Microsoft security problem.