Obama fights cyber threats with new White House post

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sage

So what's the plan? #

Posted Friday 29th May 2009 19:40 GMT

Running Windows with every antivirus, antispyware, and firewall out there and pretend that they're finally safe?

Or will they wise up and realize it's time to move to a more secure Unix/Linux platform?

Anonymous Coward

Follow the Leader #

Posted Friday 29th May 2009 21:21 GMT

Hosh posh. When will we realize that government oversight leads to the most inefficient and apathetic management? It is foolish to think that an organization itself does not have more invested in securing its systems than does the government. This is just another disappointing case of transferring the power upwards, demoting our upper-management and business owners into "rule followers"

Anonymous Coward

Great #

Posted Friday 29th May 2009 23:54 GMT

Another politically correct appointment coming up.

Anonymous Coward

LOL what a sucker #

Posted Saturday 30th May 2009 07:58 GMT

>"Indeed, in today's world, acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on a computer, a weapon of mass disruption.""

He must have been listening to Fox News talking about 4chan. What a complete and utter Blair.

jake

Waste of time, energy and tax payers money. #

Posted Saturday 30th May 2009 07:58 GMT

The international Internet will do what it's always done (patch around "issues"), and the hopefully air gapped .mil systems will carry on as they have for decades. Whoever is appointed will be a figurehead with no power, nothing to do, and most likely politically expedient.

Player_16

Well at least he's aware and not wearing blinkers... #

Posted Saturday 30th May 2009 07:58 GMT

... unlike some other (and former) governments that are in self denial and won't admit.

Anonymous Coward

Oh great, computers are WMDs. #

Posted Saturday 30th May 2009 22:42 GMT

Now we can be abducted and tortured for running snort.

Bert Ragnarok

Move along now, nothing to see... #

Posted Sunday 31st May 2009 15:43 GMT

No mention of the NSA, I notice, who just happened to create SELinux. Those are the guys and gals he should be consulting with....given that they're probably reading this email as I write. No, no, not the orange suit, it clashes with my hair!

Anonymous Coward

Re : So what's the plan? #

Posted Monday 1st June 2009 09:28 GMT

Wow, sage. I'm surprised they haven't hired you already. Nothing like 'Just use Linux' comments to demonstrate your in-depth analysis and effectiveness of your proposal. Not to mention putting a penguin icon on there to show your balanced viewpoint.

Anonymous Coward

this sshould have been done over 10 years ago ... #

Posted Monday 1st June 2009 10:48 GMT

Anyone remember Mathew Bevan? he hacked into military computers over ten years ago on his Amiga 500, - afterwhich the US military secured funds to secure their own networks .....

what happened to all that money?

Not long after mathew bevan hacked in, Gary McKinnon hacked in and found he didnt need to do much as there were no passwords at all ......

Wayland Sothcott

Can we fix it? #

Posted Monday 1st June 2009 13:46 GMT

Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!

Hail Obama

Yes we can!

It's like Bob The Bilderberg