EE Times -CTOs lobby Bush for commission on cybercrime Aren’t these the same folks that want (demand!) zero government interference in anything?
WASHINGTON — Technology executives from some of the U.S.’s biggest high-tech companies are urging the Bush administration to create a national commission on organized cybercrime.
The 15 chief technology officers from companies such as Adobe, Dell, HP, Microsoft, IBM, Veritas, Symantec and McAfee met with lawmakers, White House officials and their counterparts in federal agencies to plead their case.
“Consumers who rely on the conveniences and benefits of online technologies are increasingly faced with a number of problems, including spam and identity theft,” said Robert Holleyman, the president of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). All the companies represented are members of the BSA, a trade group that usually focuses on antipiracy issues.
While legal ‘solutions’ to cybercrime will probably be necessary, my opinion is that technical solutions are still the way to go, simply because it is so simple to commit this type of crimes with almost no risk of being caught that having an unenforceable law might actually provide a sort of temptation to these people to break it.
Microsoft, Symantec, Veritas, McAfee, hmmm don’t all these companies sell anti-virus software. Are they trying to kill their market? I doubt it, they probably want this cybercrimes division to work more for anti-piracy stuff.
Unpublished budget projections prepared by the White House make it clear that Mr. Bush cannot reach his budget goals without making deep cuts in programs. I’m sure the White House numbers crunchers will get right on this.
Mr. Smith. Yes Jones. These modem scrodum people say kids are downloading music without paying the man. Breaking the law, trading business software for free. The whole works. Jones: Write me a report, make 3 hardcopies and CC the Congressional Budget Office. We have a problem over at Defense, it takes priority. Can you sign this sir? Don’t send Sec. Rumsfeld email.
I’m sure the market will kill the unsecure companies with crappy technology as investors pull out before the house of cards comes falling down. Try finding help in Washington, because your software sucks. Is this a joke? Develop better stuff. Fire your lobbyist, who is robbing you blind. The government setup PCII and the industry didn’t use it. Now the same people are complaining the government should do something. Write a paper John. Amazing stuff!
“Nearly a year after its launch, a federal office created as a conduit for corporate America to provide the government with sensitive information about critical vulnerabilities has been all but rejected by the technology industry that helped conceive it.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/15/us_infosharing_initiative_flop_claim/
It is a very bad idea to go to Washington and waste the time of people in the Federal government. Do we need a cybercrime commission? I see that the President is receptive to the idea.
Maybe they didn’t tell him how these people ignored what Homeland Security did with PCII. Help from the U.S. government is needed, particularly to encourage other countries to pay attention to cybercrime issues, said Craig Mundie, CTO at Microsoft Corp. You people need help alright. This just looks like a big con job from what I have read. Wait until Microsoft gets cracked real good. They’ll blame it all on Bush and the Feds.
This is how the FBI thing went down. SAIC claims their stuff is great and the FBI screwed things up and the Bureau gets slammed by the Insp. Gen. at Justice. SAIC couldn’t of delivered a crappy solution. SAIC is secure! Yea right. It makes you sick. Microsoft has it all figured out. They set the standard. This is like the people who put lead in gasoline. Killers with code! We have some new code for you. Get the lead out.
I demand that the government fix this dang social security number problem. They created it, they need to fix it.
I demand an ID number that I can share without risk of identity theft.
Write your congressman. A blog post ain’t going to get it fixed. This is like having your car broken down and instead of calling for road service, you call a talk radio show to figure out the problem when you need a mechanic or a tow. Why waste everyones time. We can’t fix social security. Hank is making demands here. Lets try!
Yea Hank, we’ll all get right on it. It should be fixed Monday morning for you. Everything will be perfect then. Here is a temp. ID number 2322562 for Hank. Feel free to share it. You might want to encrypt it before you share it. Make sure you give it Microsoft if you have a Passport.
Hank,
Go work at Microsoft. You could become a fake person, lose your soul, the whole bit. Microsoft will give you a new number and their Passport. Maybe Microsoft can just tatoo the number on your arm so you never lose it. Check with Cy at Microsoft. He wrote for Talon News and when that failed, he found a future in Redmond with GOPUSA.
http://www.msnfound.com/