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Friday, March 05, 2010

Cyberwar? What Cyberwar?

Well, if we are in a cyberwar this may be one reason why we're losing it:

Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing.

“There is no cyberwar,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.

“I think that is a terrible metaphor and I think that is a terrible concept,” Schmidt said. “There are no winners in that environment.”

Instead, Schmidt said the government needs to focus its cybersecurity efforts to fight online crime and espionage.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous2:29 AM

    Unfortunately Czar Schmidt would not recognize a Cyberwar if it landed on his head.

    For example, he worked for a CyLab "insider threat" for five years but never had a clue.

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