Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar?

dasButcher writes "President Obama is expected to name a new cybersecurity czar sometime soon. This person will be charged with defending the digital boards from attack by hostile nation-states and terrorist organizations. But the question Larry Walsh asks is: Who really wants the job? The previous three people who held the post barely made a dent in solving the security problems. Government bureaucracy and private sector resistance make it nearly impossible to find any measure of meaningful success in this job, he writes." Reader eatcajun contributes a related link to the long-awaited US cyberspace policy review.

Stephen Conroy

[Gandalf_Greyhame]

We'll give you Stephen Conroy if you like.

is that anything like a Secretary of the Internet?

[Xtifr]

Obligatory XKCD link [xkcd.com] (five part story).

I paid my taxes

[Wonko the Sane]

so I guess I am ineligible even if I wanted the job.

Bruce . . .

[PolygamousRanchKid]

. . . Schneier and Campbell . . .

. . . Schneier can lecture us on, "What is Cybersecurity?" . . . Campbell can cut 'em up with chainsaws, and blow their brains out with his shotgun.

How could we lose?

lol cyberczar

[Anonymous Coward]

is the cyberczar going to declare a "WAR ON BLOGS"?

I nominate BOFH

[linzeal]

I am sure he will find away around this so called bureaucracy of yours as he has been doing quite well for himself in the private sector [wikipedia.org].

Of course with the new job comes new nomenclature, I present to you ladies and gentlemen the BCCFH (The bastard cybersecucurity czar from hell) and don't worry about assigning him any more power than a normal UNIX sysadmin, he'll get the job done.

I pay my taxes every year,

[argStyopa]

...so clearly I'm not qualified to be on Obama's cabinet.

The answer is obvious

[mqduck]

Cowboy Neal.

Re:Czar fetish

[BJ_Covert_Action]

Well, you see, we all have fond memories of playing with mamushka dolls when we were little and...I mean...come on... who honestly doesn't love those things?

I'd take the Job!

[gyrogeerloose]

Of course, I'm not qualified but we're talking about the U.S. government here so since when would that matter?

Re:Doesn't sound so bad actually...

[ColdWetDog]

In old country, we shoot Czars. Not to be wanting this, I think.

Re:A no win situation

[KahabutDieDrake]

I think you forgot to include the punchline.

Re:A no win situation

[BlueParrot]

Oh, stop. A Windows "backbone" can be made just as secure by a competent admin as a *nix "backbone" can.

And you CAN attach wheels to your tower and CRT, hooking it up to lead acid battery and dragging it along behind you, but it is just so much easier to get a laptop...

Re:A no win situation

[janwedekind]

The impudence of this lie was so strong that it send ripples through space time causing momentary discomfort to a Linus Torvalds in a parallel universe deciding to go out for dinner instead of sending a post about developing an operating system kernel.