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.'"

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Re:More change for the US

[Anonymous Coward]

Careful what you wish for -- it seems Germany had an inspiring, charismatic, popular leader a half-century ago and we saw how that worked out.

Change doesn't always mean improvement or even progress. Changing from a Constitutional Republic to a socialist territory run by a dictator (complete with a dozen "czars") is hardly what freedom-minded Americans had in mind. We are now teetering on the edge of financial ruin, committing to an unprecedented level of debt that makes economic collapse and/or hyperinflation a near certainty.