Re: whitehouse cyber strategy review

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

Hey, maybe they'll hire Gadi. Several years ago the governor of New
Jersey (my state) hired his Israeli gay lover as a security advisor. The
guy had a marketing degree I think. It led to the Governor's
resignation.

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/


-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Seltzer 
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 11:23 PM
To: rick wesson
Cc: funsec
Subject: RE: [funsec] whitehouse cyber strategy review

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/
>
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