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Re: Obama to name Howard Schmidt as cybersecurity coordinator


From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:31:05 -0800

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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio
<juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:

"Seven months after President Obama vowed to "personally select" an
adviser to orchestrate the government's strategy for protecting computer
systems, the White House will name a former Bush administration official
to the job Tuesday.

Howard A. Schmidt, who was a cyber-adviser in President George W. Bush's
White House, will be Obama's new cybersecurity coordinator, an
administration official said Monday night." --clip--

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/21/AR2009122
103055.html


Yeah, nobody else wanted the job.

- - ferg

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