Ivan of da InnerToobz
"direct access”—Holy Clap!
Do we really need another unelected, unaccountable Czar? [and weren’t Czars the whole raison d’êtr for that Russian Revolution thang and it’s charming aftermath? just, yanno, sayin’...]
And what’s the actual goal [as opposed to the stated goal] for this Czar at this time?
Cyberspace is real, and so is the risk that comes with it.’
"Our pursuit of cybersecurity will not — I repeat, will not — include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic,” Obama said. “We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish. I remain firmly committed to net neutrality so we can keep the Internet as it should be — open and free."
Here’s your incidental laff of the day:
Mr Obama noted that his own computer system for the presidential campaign at one point last year was compromised by hackers, but said the security of the names and financial information on contributors was intact.*
“Our pursuit of cybersecurity will not — I repeat, will not — include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic,” Obama said.
A famous German leader once observed, “Nothing is confirmed until officially denied”. (Off to Google ... it was Bismarck. Not that that matters. We’ve seen the effect over and over.)
I keep wondering why these people are called “czars” (Car czar, cyber czar, drug czar, ...). Doesn’t anybody remember where that word comes from?
Posted by ZZMike on 06/01/09 at 08:41 AM
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