Hacker Jeff Moss Sworn Into Homeland Security Advisory Council 139
Wolfgang Kandek writes "Hacker Jeff Moss, founder of computer security conferences DEFCON and Black Hat, has been sworn in as one of the new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) of the DHS. Moss, who goes by the handle 'the Dark Tangent' says he was surprised to be asked to join the council and that he was nominated to bring an 'outside perspective' to its meetings. He said, 'I know there is a new-found emphasis on cybersecurity, and they're looking to diversify the members and to have alternative viewpoints. I think they needed a skeptical outsider's view because that has been missing.'"
Re:More change for the US (Score:4, Funny)
Quite a few of us back here would like him to be over there as well.
Re:Maybe Jeff can explain this (Score:1, Funny)
do we have to re-hash this again?!
Re:Maybe Jeff can explain this (Score:5, Funny)
Could a slashdotter post some "simple to understand code" that produces output I cannot reverse engineer?
function f(int x) { return x/x; }
Find the original value of x, when given f(x) == 1. To get you started, x is not 3853, 178470 or -8956583566.
And "Spot the Fed" just got a lot more interesting (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder how the rules of "Spot The Fed" will change now that DEFCON is somewhat run by a fed????
Re:Not quite (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good for the council (Score:3, Funny)
I think he meant white hat hackers. ^^
Holy Crap! (Score:5, Funny)
This almost makes me believe that the government is serious about cyber-security.
Now, next, add a Constitutional Rights specialist from the EFF or ACLU and I might have an honest-to-goodness heart attack.
Re:DC = suits = Borg (Score:2, Funny)
At least you partly benefit. Less of your tax dollars needed to fuck you over ;D
Re:DC = suits = Borg (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, I think he'll be fine.
Just don't be surprised when all of a sudden "Hail to the Chief" gets replaced with "All your base are belong to us."
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