Re: Security exec picked for board

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Jay D. Dyson <jdyson () treachery net>

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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, InfoSec News wrote:

> Howard Schmidt, Microsoft Corp.'s chief information security officer, is
> in line to be vice chairman of the federal Critical Infrastructure
> Protection Board. 

        This does not bode well for the United States if the "security" we
get is of the same caliber that we've seen via Microsoft these past years.

        Without fail, Microsoft has consistently been vulnerable not only
to remote attacks, but remote attacks so bloody *TRIVIAL* that they
readily lend themselves to automated, full-blown worms for services
ranging from IIS to Outlook. 
        
> President Bush announced Dec. 21 his intention to nominate Schmidt to
> the board, which Bush created to coordinate the protection of the
> government's and the private sector's critical cyber assets. 

        I got twenty bucks right here that says that the first thing that
Schmidt will push is Microsoft's idiotic party line that demonizes both
Full Disclosure and Open Source, preferring instead a mandate of closed
source stupidity in which information on attack methodologies are kept to 
an exclusive cabal that doesn't always have our best interests at heart.

        In short, we are not just doomed, we're as good as dead.

- -Jay

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