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Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar?

Posted by Soulskill on from the fine-i'll-do-it dept.

dasButcher writes "President Obama is expected to name a new cybersecurity czar sometime soon. This person will be charged with defending the digital boards from attack by hostile nation-states and terrorist organizations. But the question Larry Walsh asks is: Who really wants the job? The previous three people who held the post barely made a dent in solving the security problems. Government bureaucracy and private sector resistance make it nearly impossible to find any measure of meaningful success in this job, he writes." Reader eatcajun contributes a related link to the long-awaited US cyberspace policy review.

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  1. Stephen Conroy by Gandalf_Greyhame · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll give you Stephen Conroy if you like.

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  2. is that anything like a Secretary of the Internet? by Xtifr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obligatory XKCD link (five part story).

  3. I paid my taxes by Wonko+the+Sane · · Score: 5, Funny

    so I guess I am ineligible even if I wanted the job.

  4. Bruce . . . by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . Schneier and Campbell . . .

    . . . Schneier can lecture us on, "What is Cybersecurity?" . . . Campbell can cut 'em up with chainsaws, and blow their brains out with his shotgun.

    How could we lose?

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  5. The answer is obvious by mqduck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cowboy Neal.

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  6. Re:A no win situation by KahabutDieDrake · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you forgot to include the punchline.

  7. Re:A no win situation by BlueParrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, stop. A Windows "backbone" can be made just as secure by a competent admin as a *nix "backbone" can.

    And you CAN attach wheels to your tower and CRT, hooking it up to lead acid battery and dragging it along behind you, but it is just so much easier to get a laptop...