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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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Dropping bats on cats rubbing 'em out like spider monkeys, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Chicken nanny devils are taking over the world.
In heaven there is nothing but Americans and our British/Canadian/Australian/New Zealand bitch servants. In hell, there are lots of Arabs, Europeans, and people from all those other weirdass countries. You are a cock junky.
Chicken nanny devils are taking over the world.
The final fight has begun. Choose sides, but choose wisely. Or die. Bitch.
Chicken nanny devils are taking over the world.
to be replaced by former microsoft security chief Howard Schmidt
A microsoft "security chief"? Sounds as a joke. Anyway, with all the competence this butthead must have, I wonder how many days will some chinese hackers need to build silly worms that put the whole US government systems in their knees?
Unfortunately, Schneier is a cryptography expert, not a security expert.
They aren't the same thing.
I will say one thing, I am truly deeply and honestly sorry that I voted for George W. Bush in 2000. I apologize from the bottom of my heart to the people of the United States and citizens of the world community for throwing my vote behind such a big headed dopey-eared buffoon. I will try to salvage some shred of dignity by pointing out that I voted for McCain in the primaries and only reluctantly voted for Bush since there were no other choices other than not voting at all. (Al Gore would've been even worse). Now, as for this situation, I really wish Bush would just go away. Please please please nominate someone else for the Republican candidate in 2004 guys. Otherwise I may just have to abstain from voting. :-( He's a war mongering moron. They have provided NO evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq yet they want us to support invading them. They've toss out all the management of NASA and replaced them with even BIGGER bean counters (O'Keefe is a blundering dumbfuck whose biggest priority is "OneNASA" rather than safety), they've brought us the PATRIOT act and actively supported the DMCA, and now they go and throw weight behind an ex-Microsoft security chief? Nothing says insecurity like "Microsoft Security". It's a fucking oxymoron. God damn I should've just voted for Nader.
Nothing says "Security" better to me than "Former Microsoft Security Chief".
Nothing says lame journalism like cheep potshots at Microsoft employees.
I know I'm going to hell, I'm just trying to get good seats.
perhaps if we all voted for who we really wanted, then maybe someday we will have a libritarian in office.
Yeah, then the day after he/she is sworn in, almost every government agency will be abolished, almost every law repealed, and almost every prisoner pardoned.
not that that's a bad thing....
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.
"You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 -- 1976." --George W. Bush, to Queen Elizabeth, Wash