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.'"

Comments

Re:More change for the US

[Anonymous Coward]

Quite a few of us back here would like him to be over there as well.

Re:Maybe Jeff can explain this

[Ant P.]

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.

Holy Crap!

[Bob9113]

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.

Re:DC = suits = Borg

[ErikTheRed]

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."