Schneier Says We Don't Need a Cybersecurity Czar

Trailrunner7 writes "Threatpost.com reports that security guru Bruce Schneier says not only should the NSA not run cybersecurity for the federal government, no one should. 'Really what I think is it shouldn't be anybody. We do better without a top-down hierarchy. Our economic and political systems work best when there isn't a dictator in charge, when there isn't one organization in charge. My feeling is there shouldn't be one organization in charge. Not only shouldn't it be the NSA, it shouldn't be anybody,' Schneier said."

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Re:Makes sense

[cayenne8]

"If you have any discretionary income at all, then you have excess. In the US, that's most of us. In other countries.. not so much. Our definition of excess includes a car that costs more than $50,000. Most people's definition of excess is having their own car. Our definition of excess is a residence with more than 2 rooms per person. Most people's definition of excess is fewer than 2 people to a room. While poverty certainly exists in the US, odds are you're not in that group, and nobody you know is in that group either. If so, you're in a very small minority. Even our homeless can probably scrounge together one meal/day, and most seem to have money to blow on booze and smokes. Our current economic crisis is not because there's no enough to go around, but because we (as a nation) tried to live beyond our means. For most of us, tightening our belts means passing on a new TV, moving to a smaller place, taking a more modest vacation, or selling our overpriced car.. not skipping meals and collecting cans."

So what?

We're not here to take care of the world, our government is here to look out for OUR interests, above all others.

We have a huge debt, and we need to pay it off.

If we quit trying to fund/bribe countries, that's a start in paying that debt down.