PITAC Cybersecurity Town Hall Meeting

Nils Janson writes "The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee's Cybersecurity Subcommittee will be holding a town hall meeting on cybersecurity at the GovSec conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC from 8:00AM to 10:00AM on July 29 (this Thursday). The meeting is open to the public and people interested in cybersecurity are encouraged to attend. It should be a pretty interesting time -- the subcommittee members are actually trying to solicit opinions from people who're interested in and passionate about this sort of stuff."

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Re:C'mon, be serious

[krital]

That's quite possibly the most inane sentiment I've ever heard. If you'd taken two seconds to research this, you would've realized two things:

1. The PITAC was actually created by President Clinton. The council appointed while Clinton was in office stayed there until 2002, which, I might note, is minimally a year after Bush took office.

2. The PITAC is composed of real, interesting, professional people who collectively have a huge breadth of experience in the industry. Having been appointed to the PITAC while Bush was in office does absolutely nothing to diminish their credentials.

Realize that I'm not sticking up for Bush, but I'm sticking up for the PITAC and pointing out that your blanket comment was completely off the mark and ridiculous. It's that sort of knee-jerk idiocy that helps Bush's supporters write off all of his opponents as worthless. Stop, take a second, and think; when you come back with a halfway intelligible response I'll be ready to listen.