Howard Schmidt Resigns As Cybersecurity Advisor

scubacuda writes "CNN and others report that former Microsoft chief of security Howard Schmidt has resigned as White House cybersecurity adviser. 'With the historic creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the transfer of many of the responsibilities from the Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and the release of the strategy, I have decided to retire after approximately 31 years of public service and return to the private sector,' Schmidt said in his April 21 e-mail."

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Re:What?

[Anonymous Coward]

>I know they really are not doing too much for >homeland security too.

How can you say that?
Every time the govt announced a high scotch tape alert, hundreds of federal agents usually go storming into some medical marijuana patients home or center.

You know how hard it is to spin the media when taking agents of less pressing matters like the security of airports, federal buildings and various McDonalds and diverting it to those terrorists in wheelchairs?

Whenever one of those alerts is gone, ifeel safer just knowing that one of those terminally ill threats to my way of life is busted.

ANd dont you dare compare the homeland snitch program to those in totalitarian states, just because the methods are the same. When our government does it its for our own good...

zeke