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Obama Taps Well-Known Hacker as Security Adviser
FoxNews ^ | Monday, June 08, 2009

Posted on 06/08/2009 10:09:44 AM PDT by Joiseydude

The Obama administration is embracing the dark side to help it fight cyberattacks.

On Friday, a well-known hacker was one of 16 people named to the Department of Homeland Security's Advisory Council (HSAC).

Jeff Moss, aka "Dark Tangent," started out as a high-school "phone phreak" making free long-distance calls and later founded the DefCon and Black Hat hackers' conferences

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Yeah, put the fox in charge of the hen house.
1 posted on 06/08/2009 10:09:44 AM PDT by Joiseydude
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To: Joiseydude

Well, on the surface this certainly does seem unwise.

But I am hopeful that someone will be able to shed some more light on what this will mean.


2 posted on 06/08/2009 10:13:41 AM PDT by El Sordo
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To: El Sordo

All your pass words are belong to us??


3 posted on 06/08/2009 10:15:15 AM PDT by handy old one (It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristote)
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To: Joiseydude
After re-reading the article I don't think this is as bad as my first impression led me to believe.
4 posted on 06/08/2009 10:15:31 AM PDT by El Sordo
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To: Joiseydude

There is a very fine line between White Hat and Black Hat hackers....


5 posted on 06/08/2009 10:16:58 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Joiseydude

Perhaps.
But I’d rather have a proven (convicted ?) technician than a bureaucrat in charge of this.


6 posted on 06/08/2009 10:17:05 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ping.


7 posted on 06/08/2009 10:17:20 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Joiseydude

Well, the point of blackhat was to provide training and knowledge sharing for it security professionals. I didn’t realize he started defcon, which is kind of the alternate universe of blackhat.


8 posted on 06/08/2009 10:17:43 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Joiseydude

Jeff Moss

9 posted on 06/08/2009 10:19:57 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Joiseydude

They could have picked better choices.

Woz and Mitnick are the originals


10 posted on 06/08/2009 10:23:27 AM PDT by Vendome
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To: Joiseydude

It fits with his previous thinking - key appointees should be selected to destroy the integrity and functionality of the organization where they are to work:

A tax cheat to run the IRS.

Financiers who scammed the financial system for billions in charge of fixing the financial system.

An open borders advocate in charge of securing our borders.

A proponent of homosexual indoctrination as Secretary of Education.

A sexist, racist affirmative action appointee nomnated for the Supreme Court.


11 posted on 06/08/2009 10:24:27 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were a clueless, idiot, and suppose you were Barack Obama; but I repeat myself)
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To: Joiseydude

In the hacker world, when they get over being a purist, they go from being a “Black Hat” and proving to everyone how clever they are, to being a “White Hat” and making loads money exposing holes and building “Mouse Traps”.


12 posted on 06/08/2009 10:25:29 AM PDT by Vendome
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Might as well...we already have a tax cheat as Treasury Secretary.


13 posted on 06/08/2009 10:28:08 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: El Sordo

It means he will probably release his fellow oppressed brothers from penitaries and employ them in the war on drugs.


14 posted on 06/08/2009 10:33:34 AM PDT by Anti-Kenyan
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To: Joiseydude

Where’s Kevin Mitnick these days?


15 posted on 06/08/2009 10:35:32 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obamanation: an imploding administration headed by a clueless schmuck, with McCain as his Kowakian)
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To: Vendome

Yeah, but Jeff Moss is a businessman. ;)


16 posted on 06/08/2009 10:35:39 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: Joiseydude

When character is missing in the original acts...how can we expect it to develop for us later?

Just a “time bomb” to be released later.


17 posted on 06/08/2009 10:36:21 AM PDT by 3D-JOY
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To: Joiseydude

This is what our nation has become:

An illegal alien occupying the WH and ruining the country while posing as a citizen (show us the BC!).

A cabinet staff dominated by IRS tax cheats and criminal behavior.

A staff of WH advisors with criminal records and fraudulent credentials.

A Congress filled with amoral, unethical “monkey-sees” who refuse to do the job we elect and pay them to do, all the while dipping their hands deeper into our wallets, our pensions, our savings and our retirement plans.

So, how much more of this broken, corrupt political system are we willing to tolerate before we take our country back???


18 posted on 06/08/2009 10:41:46 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Joiseydude

before i read the name, thought we were talking about David Kernell. what ever happened to him?


19 posted on 06/08/2009 10:43:37 AM PDT by machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
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To: Joiseydude

Red pill blue pill.... hum....


20 posted on 06/08/2009 10:43:54 AM PDT by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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