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  • + +Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat , +Slate, +March 3, 2003. +
    +Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD +surrounding the Bush Administration's recent +National Strategy +to Secure Cyberspace, 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 +OpenBSD?" +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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