Cybersecurity

[unixronin]

bruce_schneier on why the NSA should NOT be in charge of US cybersecurity:

Putting national cybersecurity in the hands of the NSA is an incredibly bad idea. An entire parade of people, ranging from former FBI director Louis Freeh to Microsoft’s Trusted Computing Group Vice President and former Justice Department computer crime chief Scott Charney, have told Congress the same thing at this month’s hearings.

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Comments

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

And, clearly, Microsoft's Trusted Computing Group has our best interests at heart ;-) (they're probably just steamed that the NSA created their own distro of linux, and made it public).


(I'm not commenting on the larger issue, though, just their trying to use microsoft as a credible reference)

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

I agree completely that putting the NSA in charge is not only wrong, but dangerous. The current conflict of interest alone is enough to veto the idea - but what happens if the current administration (or one in the future) decides to use NSA resources to develop a "hit list" of people who are "enemies of the state" simply for disagreeing with the current White House occupant?

*shudder*

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

NSA are external monitoring and cryptography! Cold war assholes are screwing a good reputation by empire building.

What will they want next? Another letter for some atrocity they commit like the ATF now gets?

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

Is it possible to create another department in the US government specifically for IT security of the United States?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Do we really need yet ANOTHER new government department? The government is already spending us out of house and home.

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

How else are we going to find a bunch of people who don't have such a nasty conflict of interest?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Maybe the government could call in some folks from some of the big data security orgs to show them how it's done? If the government does it, the appointments will be politically motivated and the odds are they'll screw it up anyway.