[Infowarrior] - Fwd: FUD March at FOSE

[Richard Forno]

I would add to the final paragraph that a lot of folks leave USG  
cybersecurity service when they realize the futility of the system  
they're working in.  On one hand, they are dealing with an  
unconventional task in an unconventional, dynamic environment.  On the  
other hand ---- they work for the USG, which is a centralized, top- 
down, stovepiped, conventional organisation that cannot embrace change  
or adapt easily.  Hence, they're in a catch-22.   -rick


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> Date: March 25, 2010 4:38:13 PM EDT
>
>
> In response to:  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/24/us_under_cyber_threat/
>
> The very existence of the US is under threat from cyberspace.  You  
> mean
> I can delete the US with a script.  Please, someone get this ass  
> clown a
> bit of perspective.
>
> "Chabinsky was certainly emphatic in his warnings. "I am convinced  
> that
> given enough time, motivation and funding," he said, "a determined
> adversary will always - always - be able to penetrate a targeted
> system."
>
> How deep he must be.  Real security folks have been stating this for
> years.  Time is the ultimate killer of any security solution.
> Congratulations on passing InfoSec 101.
>
> "Although cyber-terrorism is his top priority, Chabinsky is also  
> worried
> about cyber-snooping. His concerns include foreign agents and  
> criminals
> who "seek every day to steal our state secrets and private sector
> intellectual property, sometimes for the purpose of undermining the
> stability of our government by weakening our economic or military
> supremacy"."
>
> I am not worried about foreign agents, the elected criminals in the  
> Sore
> on the Potomac do enough to weaken the economy.  As for military
> supremacy, I would like Chabinsky to move out of 1940 and let me know
> what military conflict the US won.  Korea, draw, Vietnam, lost, Iraq,
> still there, Afghanistan, still there.  I think the Washington  
> Generals
> have the same record against the Harlem Globetrotters.
>
> "If you're an IT type who has been made redundant during the economic
> meltdown, the FBI's Chabinsky wants to talk with you. He told the FOSE
> crowd that the FBI is looking for agents who can "talk the talk" to  
> join
> the cyber-wars against cyber-baddies."
>
> Ever think maybe most of the fired were let go because they were not
> good at what they did.  Similar to most of the tech "experts" of the
> tech bubble, gone once it was determined they only floppy of which  
> they
> were aware was their pcker.