I think it's a welcome change. It doesn't say so in this article clip, but he is Dr. Zatko, and has worked in instruction and academia, so it's not too far a leap for them. He's also been working in the federal space quite a bit since the L0pht sold out and shutdown. Dan Geer did something similar a couple years ago when he joined In-Q-Tel.
On 2/11/10 8:42 AM, Jeremy Epstein wrote: > OK, many of you don't care about DARPA, but here's something that > happened there you *should* care about. DARPA funds research, and has > historically drawn its program managers from the ranks of academia and > occasionally the military. This is a massive change in outlook.... > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10450552-245.html > > Peiter Zatko--a respected hacker known as "Mudge"--has been tapped to > be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding > research designed to help give the U.S. government tools needed to > protect against cyberattacks, CNET has learned. > > Zatko will become a program manager in mid-March within the Strategic > Technologies Office at DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects > Agency), which is the research and development office for the > Department of Defense. His focus will be cybersecurity, he said in an > interview with CNET on Tuesday. > > One of his main goals will be to fund researchers at hacker spaces, > start-ups, and boutiques who are most likely to develop technologies > that can leapfrog what comes out of large corporations. "I want > revolutionary changes. I don't want evolutionary ones," he said. > > He's also hoping that giving a big push to research and development > will do more to advance the progress of cybersecurity than public > policy decisions have been able to do over the past few decades. > > [...] > _______________________________________________ > Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org > List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l > List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php > SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) > as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. > _______________________________________________ > > -- Benjamin Tomhave, MS, CISSP tomh...@secureconsulting.net Blog: http://www.secureconsulting.net/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/falconsview LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/btomhave [ Random Quote: ] "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." Woody Allen _______________________________________________ Secure Coding mailing list (SC-L) SC-L@securecoding.org List information, subscriptions, etc - http://krvw.com/mailman/listinfo/sc-l List charter available at - http://www.securecoding.org/list/charter.php SC-L is hosted and moderated by KRvW Associates, LLC (http://www.KRvW.com) as a free, non-commercial service to the software security community. _______________________________________________
