Comments on: Bush’s Secret Cyber Initiative

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:15:45 +0000

What is all this hand wringing about secrecy.

Yep hand wringing and caterwalling are your two bugaboos.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:08:21 +0000

So you don’t like law enforcement.

What I like is the rule of law, the Constitution, due process, probable cause, and equal protection, things that people who think and speak in strawmen never seem able to wrap their itsy bitsy minds around.

By: fgator

fgator — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:31:52 +0000

So you don’t like law enforcement.

Ok, we will take your house off the grid, off the 911 list, and not run the patrol cars up your streets. We wouldn’t want to infringe on any crooks night time activities.

Then using the example given by melior at #18, we will publish this (open source) so everyone knows about it.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:59:05 +0000

What is all this hand wringing about secrecy. When you are combating evil, you don’t tell them how you are going to do it.

I hate it when the police use a clever strategy to find or catch the crook, and then the stratagem is broadcast over the evening news so that the next crook won’t get caught by the same method.

Yes, why can’t we do it the old fashioned way where you take them out in the night and just shoot them. Problem solved!

By: melior

melior — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:28:51 +0000

When you are combating evil, you don’t tell them how you are going to do it.

This maxim is often false when applied to information security.

As just one example, open source cryptographic algorithms that have been published, analyzed, and strengthened in the sunlight do a far better job of ensuring security than the alternative, known as ”security through obscurity”.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:29:16 +0000

Agree that cybersecurity is a problem.
I’d prefer to see Congress fund those 1200 FBI fraud agents, for a start.

No one will ever convince me the Big Shitpile could conceivably have occurred if there had been more FBI fraud and cybersecurity investigators. There’s simply too much money to be made in mortgages, and the WH and Congress completely dropped the ball.

By: wcsally

wcsally — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:00:35 +0000

What is all this hand wringing about secrecy. When you are combating evil, you don’t tell them how you are going to do it.

I hate it when the police use a clever strategy to find or catch the crook, and then the stratagem is broadcast over the evening news so that the next crook won’t get caught by the same method.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:23:15 +0000

I think there are ways to get rid of bureaucrats. Think Office Space.

By: masaccio

masaccio — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:18:10 +0000

This is why for me the most important question in this election is which candidate is most likely to root out the ideologue maggots the spawn of satan is burying all over the bureaucracy.

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:26:43 +0000

TomJ (or anyone else)

What do you think of the effort to reduce the number of portals?

It will also oversee the effort to reduce Internet portals across government to 50 from 2,000, to make it easier to detect attacks.

I understand the idea of cutting down the number of doors you need to remember to lock, but if you’ve got fewer, doesn’t any eventual access give you much greater access overall?