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Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar?
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.
We'll give you Stephen Conroy if you like.
I am not stubborn. I am right!
...nuff said.
Obligatory XKCD link (five part story).
Are there any RIAA lawyers left who don't yet have high level Obama positions?
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
so I guess I am ineligible even if I wanted the job.
. . . 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?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
We don't need a "czar", we need a new military branch. I am not aware of ANY real and lasting contribution any "czar" has ever made in the United States. The first drug czars came close... if you call that a contribution, but from everything I've seen, they're basically PR and cheerleaders, and don't have much authority or get much done.
If we're serious... and I mean really serious... we need a branch of the military to do the heavy lifting. We don't need to start this in a big way, but we need the security infrastructure to build on should tensions begin rising with nation states. These guys would be the grunts doing the front line lifting and poking around while the NSA focuses it's talent on developing high level techniques. This is what we'd do if we got really serious.
In my view, the position of czar is a joke. Czars are for 19th century Russia and have no place in a modern United States government.
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What is up with this American love affair with old Russian titles?
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Oh, stop. A Windows "backbone" can be made just as secure by a competent admin as a *nix "backbone" can.
Cowboy Neal.
Property is theft.
I'd take this job in a second. The position has a track record of failure and thus, expectations are low. This is exactly the kind of job I'm looking for. If you succeed, you're a miracle worker, if you fail, nobody blames you, either way it's not bad. It looks even better when you add in the fact that the pay is good and you have an awesome title. I mean c'mon, you'd be a freaking czar, how many people can legitimately put "Czar" on their resume?
I think you forgot to include the punchline.
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...