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Hacker Jeff Moss Sworn Into Homeland Security Advisory Council
Wolfgang Kandek writes "Hacker Jeff Moss, founder of computer security conferences DEFCON and Black Hat, has been sworn in as one of the new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) of the DHS. Moss, who goes by the handle 'the Dark Tangent' says he was surprised to be asked to join the council and that he was nominated to bring an 'outside perspective' to its meetings. He said, 'I know there is a new-found emphasis on cybersecurity, and they're looking to diversify the members and to have alternative viewpoints. I think they needed a skeptical outsider's view because that has been missing.'"
Quite a few of us back here would like him to be over there as well.
do we have to re-hash this again?!
Could a slashdotter post some "simple to understand code" that produces output I cannot reverse engineer?
function f(int x) { return x/x; }
Find the original value of x, when given f(x) == 1. To get you started, x is not 3853, 178470 or -8956583566.
I wonder how the rules of "Spot The Fed" will change now that DEFCON is somewhat run by a fed????
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Where have you been? The federal government frowns on talking about obvious security holes because doing so makes them exploitable. As long as we pretend that the DoD and other government agencies are properly securing their networks the crackers can't get in.
I think he meant white hat hackers. ^^
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This almost makes me believe that the government is serious about cyber-security.
Now, next, add a Constitutional Rights specialist from the EFF or ACLU and I might have an honest-to-goodness heart attack.
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At least you partly benefit. Less of your tax dollars needed to fuck you over ;D
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Oh, I think he'll be fine.
Just don't be surprised when all of a sudden "Hail to the Chief" gets replaced with "All your base are belong to us."
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It's going to be a lot easier at the next Defcon. Or, is he just going wear an "I am the fed" t-shirt for the whole conference?
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