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Re: whitehouse cyber strategy review
From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:23:12 -0500
People take jobs like that in government all the time, like super-rich lawyers. You do it for the power or the connections so that you get a top job (not lobbying) after you get out. Nobody's taking this job because it's set up to fail. Instead of giving the position the power he promised to in the campaign they're making it report to two different white house officials with vastly different priorities. That's why only a sucker would take it. Although for $120K and the exposure I'll put up with some failure for a while. Larry Seltzer Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ -----Original Message----- From: rick wesson [mailto:rick () support-intelligence com] Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:16 PM To: Larry Seltzer Cc: funsec Subject: Re: [funsec] whitehouse cyber strategy review Who wants the job? The pay is like 120K year, anyone worth their salt just won't go for it. also the 2 year no lobing after you quit. Your not going to get the best candidates... -rick Larry Seltzer wrote:
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/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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