> Is it me or is the new Whitehouse cyber security document just b/s of > more cooperation yet again?
I for one am reassured and inspired. The Bush administration was incapable of making so attractive a document. What was it supposed to be about again? In a recent CircleID (http://www.circleid.com/posts/20091104_the_role_of_a_cybersecurity_czar /) Steven Bellovin talked about why it's taking the administration so long to appoint a cyber czar. I pointed out in a comment that we have Obama to thank for raising expectations for government leadership in this area and that he had specifically promised to appoint such an advisor reporting directly to him and that he would make computer security the high priority issue it needed to be. Obviously these were as insincere as most of his campaign promises. The Bush administration made several low-profile efforts at these problems with, to my knowledge, no real success. As with Afghanistan, Obama is finding out that solutions that will work and gain political acceptance in the real world aren't as simple as his very clear campaign promises. Larry Seltzer Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [email protected] http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
