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Cybersecurity Chief Resigns
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SIOBHAN GORMAN
The Wall Street Journal
March 9, 2009
The government’s coordinator for cybersecurity programs has quit, criticizing what he described as the National Security Agency’s grip on cybersecurity.
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The power battles Mr. Beckstrom describes in his resignation letter illustrate the challenges ahead for the Obama administration as it plans its defense against governments and terrorists who might try to disrupt U.S. computer systems, cybersecurity specialists said. One issue is what part or parts of the government should lead the effort.
The Bush administration last year started a cybersecurity initiative to protect government networks, which was estimated to cost at least $6 billion in 2009 and $30 to $40 billion over the next several years. The Obama administration is conducting a 60-day review of that effort and related policies. The reviewers, led by the official who started the cyber initiative for the Bush administration, are expected to issue recommendations next month.
Mr. Beckstrom’s National Cybersecurity Center, created last March to coordinate all government cybersecurity efforts, answered to the secretary of homeland security.
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March 9th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
spam
March 9th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
the internet must be free you dingbat!!!!!!!!!!
March 9th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
just try and regulate the web,you will only sell tour own freedom,then you will see that the master will turn on you. wake up all people,get on side with all patriots,let them know that they better stop their attack on the constitution or they will be charged with treason.
Aeronautical Engineer Reply:
March 9th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
@ March
Do you know what this article is about??
This guy is trying to stop hackers and he plain out said that he can’t do it becuase civilians are too smart. He said he can’t stop “intelligence culture”. The man has 5 people on his staff. I’d quit too.
March 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Take your spam and stick it up your ass. Keep it up and people will learn to hate your site!
March 9th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Beckstrom refuses to be the fall guy for the NSA.
Now, inform your fellow citizens Beckstrom ~
March 9th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Beckstrom is 100% correct. Giving everyone’s information to the government is a really stupid mistake. It’s as stupid as requiring everyone to be in the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Every principle of science that demonstrates survival of any species is based upon diversity! It is our genetic diversity and individually unique physiology that prevents viruses from wiping out an entire population. These differences are actually “INCOMPATIBILIES” in our physiology, that prevents the transmission of viruses and diseases.
When transmissions of viruses are “COMPATABLE” with everyone and are multi-species capable, you get horrendous epidemics like the Bubonic Plague, Swine Flu, Bird Flu, etc.. Realizing how SYSTEMS INCOMPATIBILITIES serve to BLOCK a viral invasion, why in God’s name would the government want to model our National Cyberspace Security System in the likeness of Swine Flu transmission where everything is cyber compatible. This is just plain insanity!!!
This is as dumb as sharing needles to prevent the transmission of HIV and I can guarantee you that sooner or later any such system under one, will get hacked and when it does everything will go down, just like a global Bird Flu epidemic when the virus adapts and develops universal compatibility.
The Fed is insane with this model which is patterned after the Swine Flu epidemic of 1918 and our best cyber defense would obviously be INCOMPATIBILITY of systems and networks and data. Tragically, our insane leaders will force the entire human race to discover this the hard way with either a mandatory universal vaccine that’s corrupt, or a Cyberspace Defense that’s patterned after such an obvious flaw.
Torry Reply:
March 9th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I agree with you Solutions. Alot of people out there in cyberspace are way too smart to be shackled and stamped and marked and tracked by the Fed. This could be disastrous if several smart and inconspicuous hackers banded together and launched a brute force attack at either the Fed systems and departments ie NSA DOD FBI, etc. and/or ISPs then it is down with the rest of the networks and systems and we will be sitting ducks for attack.
It is like setting up a topology of computers in a ring structure with only one modem and one server network and one token per computer. If the tokens ever travel on the same line but in opposite directions heading towards each other, they will crash and you’ve got a pile up eventually which in return slows down all the other computers and they will be prone to attack.
Commonsense
March 9th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
The Power Has Always Been With The People! Recognize it!
http://WWW.WARNTHEPEOPLE.ORG
March 9th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Maybe he was too smart to not fall for stupid government tactics that will blame him later if he would have stayed.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
He must have realised that it was not just a job, but life. It seems that there is one more person in the Government that has a conscience.
I wonder if he already knows too much? I hope Alex gets him on for a show.
March 9th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Maybe they just dont want to share their uber tools with any other agency.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Guys, back when printing was invented (I’m talking when books had to be hand written and copied by hand), the Church/Gov tried real hard to prevent the people buying or printing books… Well we pulled through that and I believe with effort we can pull through this.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
He’s probably pretty smart , and after years of snoopin’ on Alex’s programs and all the good posts
that truthers leave on the threads , thought ,” fuck this shit , I’m gettin’ out of here ” !!!
March 9th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Are we suprised?
The NSA is the largest and most secretive intelligence agency in the USA.
They are building the :mark of the beast” control grid.
See linx:
http://geocities.com/lionofjudah2019/master.html
Remember, there’s a WAR on for your soul!
March 10th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Fluff!!! The Fuckin’ NSA can READ the DATE off a DIME from fuckin’ orbit folks!!! Janes Defense Weekly. Nothing new, but food for thought now isn’t it??? Moniker rotation due to Trolling…”All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”
March 10th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Is Beckstrom really so naive as to think that this is some sort of failing on the part of the government or the NSA? The system, such as it is, was deliberately set up this way. They don’t WANT any civilian oversight.
March 10th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Total Information for Total Control —-Has the Department of Defenses taken over this country?
March 10th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Anyone else want to know why we have an NSA or a DHS at all? I sure do. They are not relevant; and get us in more problems than they ever solve. They really are the secret police of America.
March 11th, 2009 at 7:40 am
did you guys catch in the resignation letter where he mentioned he helped the DoD develop web 2.0? lol.