Obama has demonstrated that he knows nothing about cyber security nor national security. He refuses to give up his CRACKberry so you know he has an addiction.

This has more to do with finding ways to spend money. US has a lot of domestic networking businesses and so spending in that field is more likely to swill around the US economy. Cisco, Symantec Microsoft etc.

Obama needs to spend $800 billion and generate at least $900 billion in real growth to cover it. Imagine if you had to create 40 Googles a year, you can see the size of the problem Obama faces.

Myself, I think it's wasted money and he won't be able to fix the Bush Legacy, if he gets $400 billion in one time productivity I would be surprised (i.e. 50% waste). Basically it will always be cheaper to *NOT* connect sensitive systems to public networks in the first place, rather than pay money to build expensive firewalls, so without the Government throwing money at the problem there isn't a real market there and those businesses would always be seeking government money to stay in business.

"This has more to do with finding ways to spend money." ... By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 11th February 2009 15:09 GMT

AC,

Make it simpler for Barack, by offering him something he might need and want to use. I imagine his gratitude and one's reward would be commensurate to the offering.

In fact, you will invariably find that all the smartest movers and shakers in such things, ensure that it is so.

And there appear to be moves afoot to dismantle the private mercenary armies/security firms which are so counterproductive to US troops...... whenever they act with gung-ho warrior immunity and impunity. This is news of a fat cat operation which is running as a private fiefdom .... http://cryptome.info/0001/hts-bailout.htm

Anything here?