Hacker Joins Homeland Security Advisory Council
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: DefCon, Blackhat, HSAC, Obama, Cybersecurity | Themes: Business
The newest member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council is none other than the founder of the hacking conferences DefCon and Black Hat, Jeff Moss.
CNet reports that Moss is among 16 people sworn in to the Homeland Security Advisory Council late last week. The remaining fifteen includes CIA and FBI directors Bill Webster and Louis Freeh respectively, a Los Angeles County sheriff, Miami mayor, a New York police commissioner, governors of Maryland and Georgia, former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, and the president of the Navajo Nation.
Moss told CNet that he was "fantastically honored and excited to contribute" and in an interview said that he feels he’s the skeptical outsider that has been missing from the HSAC. "I know there is a newfound emphasis on cybersecurity and they're looking to diversify the members and to have alternative viewpoints," he said. "I think they needed a skeptical outsider's view because that has been missing."
HSAC members are supposed to provide recommendations and advice to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. What do you guys think of the latest addition to the council? Let us know in the comments below and check out the full story here.
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Ofcoarse hes a good addition. From reading that list of names, he is probably the only one who knows the internet is not actually a "series of tubes."
Go figure the government does have good ideas...too bad it's always late
Maybe the suits will actually learn the technology instead of the typical...What is it, what does it do, I do not understand so it must be bad and we need to contain it and squash it. So here is hoping.
That your news? Where is the news that Sweden's Pirate Party won a seat on the European Parliament.
Finally...they get someone who knows what they're doing...
That your news? Where is the news that Sweden's Pirate Party won a seat on the European Parliament.
Already written, in the pipe to be posted.
I agree Pei-Chen.... that is really GOOD news.
Who cares about HS and their privacy robbing practises?
Then they are going to ask him smart questions like... what is a browser? Do you need to put www. in front of it? Is PC better than Mac? Should we use Norton or McCaffee for our nuclear weapons network? You know... really smart government questions. Unfortunately you got a super smart guy interfacing with morons. They need a dozen like minded Moss's...
Then they are going to ask him smart questions like... what is a browser? Do you need to put www. in front of it? Is PC better than Mac? Should we use Norton or McCaffee for our nuclear weapons network? You know... really smart government questions. Unfortunately you got a super smart guy interfacing with morons. They need a dozen like minded Moss's...
Yeah, no adapter for that situation.
Should we use Norton or McCaffee for our nuclear weapons network?
Yea use Norton some a network that doesn't exist.
It's about time someone who knows the dangers and goodness the internet can bring takes a seat in HSAC. The internet is the new frontier XD
cyber security is in a way putting more security and restrictions to us users later on. if they want to be full proof...PENTAGON has zillions of money. why not create a different OS that is not windows based. in that way nobody can get into them. this is all crap from the pentagon and CIA. next thing you know once you start doing something...there will be warnings poping up n your system and probably a bunch of FBI agents breaking your door coz they think your a terrorist.
Throw out the last 2 sentences, please.
The only other two that I agree with are CIA and FBI directors Bill Webster and Louis Freeh. How about putting some actual IT folks on the council instead of people who pay someone to surf the internet for them.