Re: whitehouse cyber strategy review

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> 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
larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/

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