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Cybersecurity Chief Resigns
Doc Ruby writes "AP is reporting that 'The government's cybersecurity chief has abruptly resigned after one year with the Department of Homeland Security, confiding to industry colleagues his frustration over what he considers a lack of attention paid to computer security issues within the agency. Amit Yoran, a former software executive from Symantec Corp., informed the White House about his plans to quit as director of the National Cyber Security Division and made his resignation effective at the end of Thursday, effectively giving a single's day notice of his intentions to leave.' Yoran is the third cybersecurity chief in a row, after Richard Clarke and Howard Schmidt, to quit the Bush administration citing organizational inability to do his job. Maybe the job can't be done." In a possibly related story, individuals take cybersecurity lightly: Ant writes "This story says that consumers have a casual approach toward cybersecurity and fail to grasp the pervasiveness of online threats, according to a study released Thursday. More than a third of the 493 PC users surveyed by the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) said they had a greater chance of winning the lottery or being struck by lightning than of being hit by malicious code."
because i have a patent pending for transmitting crude oil over the internet
vodka, straight up, thank you!
One of my friends (an older lady) actually bought a book on my recommendation because she wants to know what's going on on her computer, and learn more about even basic security. :)
It takes time, but it's a grassroots movement
May I ask what book? I've been looking for a computer book for the technically illiterate that doesn't just show someone how something is done, but some of the why. An introduction to digital common sense, perhaps.
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To be honest, maybe it's hard to take seriously because we're busy trying to distort its meaning and importance
It's also hard to take seriously when companies like Microsoft have been telling the public, for years and years and years, that it's perfectly okay to click that EULA because the program was definitely worth $200. There was a corporate brainwashing of the public before putting them online back in '95 and that brainwashing hasn't worn off.
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And since you can't moderate and post in the same thread you wasted those mod point.
It was mostly because she has some teenagers using the system, and they are the type who download Comet Cursor, etc. without thinking of what could happen. I know what I'm doing, so I was going off of the review here. HTH
-Pita
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