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 government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized  government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
 computers with security features."  computers with security features."
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   <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
   <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
   Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
   Slate,
   March 3, 2003.
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   Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
   surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
   <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
   to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
   big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
   made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
   Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
   are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
   of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
   dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
   as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
   making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
   out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
   of more secure open-source solutions like
   <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
   I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
   them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
   Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
   yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
   are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
   The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
   the Beltway."
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