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government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
computers with security features."
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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."
+
January, 2003
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