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Obama Forms Commission To Bolster US Cyber Security (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader writes: President Obama unveiled a commission of private, public and academic experts to bolster the US cyber security sector. The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will be co-chaired by former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano and Tom Donilon, the President's former national security adviser. Some other notable members include MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga, Microsoft Research VP Peter Lee, Uber's current (and Facebook's former) Chief Security Officer Joe Sullivan, Frontier Communications Executive Chairperson Maggie Wildrotter, and Annie Anton, chair of the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. The specific goals of the commission are to: "Raise the level of cybersecurity in both the public and private sectors, deter, disrupt, and interfere with malicious cyber activity aimed at the U.S. or its allies and respond effectively to and recover from cyber incidents."
Don't set up your own personal e-mail server to do government business!
keep your enemies closer.
Clearly, the answer to better National Cybersecurity is to require more backdoors with special gov't keys. We know no one else will be able to use them.... /s
Yay, totally filled with executive types that have no actual clue about computer security. Maybe if there were actual security researchers, hackers, and programmers working on the problem... Wait, we already are working on it, and still no silver bullets.
they could start by not forcing (or allowing) backdoors or weak or broken encryption on Software or Hardware....
and beefing up the reporting requirements and penalties for security breaches that expose private and personal data would be another thing to aspire to.
-I'm just sayin'
The first step towards making Security better is to stop the Government from trying to make it worse.
stop demanding that security be weakened,
This is not only a matter of stopping efforts to require backdoors in products, but also stop secrecy around warrents for data
How do we, or anyone else (including the people at Microsoft) know that all the the "National Security" letters that they have received from different people over the years actually came from the Government? There have been enough issues that I'm sure the bad guys have copies from somewhere. What stops them from sending something out demanding data?
David Lang
don't forget to read the teepeeleaks etchings again please https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=history+acquisition+resources+natives .. cease fire... in the moms we trust...
Seriously, they spend billions on cracking systems, zero day exploits, breaking encryption, etc. Why doesn't Obummer just say the NSA has to let manufacturers know of the defects in their products?
Yeah yeah, I know. The NSA is all terrorists, and his new organization is all show no substance.
We'd be better off if instead of bolster Obama would simply re-upholster the cyber security.
This way, the commission can sit on their asses more comfortably.
That's why everyone is so grumpy in DC...hard asses and soft money. Time for new furniture.
Where's the golf course?
Maybe don't force everybody to put back doors in their cell phones and try to avoid outlawing encryption.
See subject: What about THE PEOPLE??? Reason I ask, is this-> http://www.usnews.com/news/bus...
* It concerns us all (the "little people" who fight the wars, & pay the taxes since BIG BUSINESS SURELY DOESN'T (Google, MS, Oracle, IBM, Apple, CISCO keeping it to the tech sector of course ONLY in those, etc.) -> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... )
ESPECIALLY SINCE WE ARE FOOTING THE BILL IN TAXES - NOT THEIR ALLIES & BIG BUSINESS (they can afford to employ US citizens with computing security themselves, INSTEAD OF OFFSHORING or OUTSOURCING IT LIKE THEY DO!)
APK
P.S.=> I wish them luck though - but that wasn't just sarcasm above either... apk
...is not this one. This one seeks to curtail privacy, remove encryption, punish whistleblowers, and use the Espionage Act and Treason against any and all (except their own David Petraeous and Hillary Clinton).
Their own OPM was the subject of the worst hack of its time. http://www.computerworld.com/a...
This administration and our government in general have NO CLUE how to protect systems, and the word 'cyber' isn't used by anyone who isn't ripping off the government for money. The word used to mean 'sex'. http://io9.gizmodo.com/today-c...
I have great faith that if the Obama Administration wanted to do something useful that they would have come out AGAINST the Feinstein draft bill, that they would have come out against forced decryption of iPhones; that they would not charge Edward Snowded with treason, or in the alternative charge Hillary Clinton with treason.
Absent all those, this is hardly more than pissing in the wind.
E
ok, seriously, this is a list of people who know appear to know security to someone who doesn't but they really are a group of all the wrong people.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Snotnose, my hat's off to you - that was a most brilliant insightful reply... better than my own even here by far -> https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
* Why do I say that? Heck, you are RIGHT as RAIN!
APK
P.S.=> Paying another "oversight committee" of stuffed shirts (who probably MIGHT know a thing or two but are vastly overpaid 'exec' types, when a real in the trenches techie would know far more imo) is dumb, especially when an AGENCY that's SUPPOSED TO DO SECURITY (not insecurity as you noted) is already in place... my point in my post was more along the lines of issues in things that affect ALL US CITIZENS (healthcare system breaches) - & the fact our "allies" should come SECOND to us - WE PAY THE BILL FOR THESE THINGS (big business, which I show evidence of, surely doesn't) & we're the ones fighting wars for them too - wtf, help us, FIRST (big business, with all their double-dutch tax evasion can afford their OWN security staff, & so can their overseas allies own governments)... apk
>word 'cyber' isn't used by anyone who isn't ripping off the government for money. The word used to mean 'sex'.
Huh? Cyber is short for cybernetic, which has been in use since at least the 1950's.
Obama has what? Nine months left? This commission is nothing but a publicity stunt to try and make it look like his administration actually did something in the eight years they had.
Of people who know absolutely nothing about cybersecurity.
If they want us to believe they actually care about cyber security, the first thing they can do is stop certain 3 letter agencies from waging war on it.
I am not sure multinational ex-CEOs have any clue about security.
Obama has what? Nine months left? This commission is nothing but a publicity stunt to try and make it look like his administration actually did something in the eight years they had.
Um. No. The end of a two-term presidency is when a president is free to actually try to do useful things.
If we go by quantity alone, the US Government has lost more of my data than any other entity - as far as I am aware. For better or worse, my data is all over the place. I've had countless notices. I probably have a lifetime's worth of free credit monitoring which really doesn't do me a damned bit of good. Instead, I have the major credit bureaus set the flag to, "Do not issue credit." I think it was something like $10 to do that? I'm not really sure - it probably ought to be free.
If I did want credit (sometimes a card is handy) then I have to call and make a one-time request for them to remove the flag and they only remove it for one specific creditor. An oddity is that the one specific creditor is not actually always the name of the lending institution. I'm not sure why that is. For example, it's not "Franklin/Somerset Federal Credit Union" if I want to get credit from them. They do their checks under a name of a larger entity which is sort of like a union of credit unions.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Why are you always talking about cyber sex?
And what exactly is cybersex security?
.. the need for all that security for the government but no acceptance for similar security for the people.
And we call it democracies..
That is the normal hire for all of these commissions, mostly because nepotism would be too obvious if done too often.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
He drew a red line in the cyber sand. That'll show them!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
It sounds so fucking stupid, it is not a real word, it is an adopted word from 80s hollywood films.
Suck my cyber asshole with the fucking cyber bullshit OK?
the password is root.
Get Feinstein & Hillary to retire, as well as all the other anti-crypto kooks.
. . . . .this OTHER Slashdot headline on Federal Cybersecurity. Yep. Our vaunted Federal Cyber efforts are WORSE that pretty much everyone else, except maybe that guy who "rm -rf."-ed his hosting business. . . .
Obama Forms Commission To Bol..^H^H^H. .. "Crack Iphone" .. There, fixed that for you..
Expect it to cost a lot more than it would otherwise and get in the way of actual cyber security.
If i recall correctly the NSA's original purpose was things like this. Developing strong encryption and security measures for the US government and US companies, thus the export ban on certain encryption tech (not that that makes much of a difference in this era).
That to me would be a real change for the better. Use all these, frankly, quite amazing technical feats and system the NSA is building and use them for our cyber defense. They really have some of the best cyber-security minds and practices, wouldn't they be best used to shore up and defend our infrastructure instead of destroying it.
I know I'm speaking to choir here but I would love to see a politician use this line of thinking so people can't make the misguided "But...terrorism!!!" argument when discussing shutting it down (and i would rather it's role be one of developing secure practices and technologies rather then dismantling it completely, but it may be too far gone)