[Am-info] M$ security (cough, choke) chief to work for the white house??

[Geoffrey]

Gag me with a full version of XP, caught this on /. this morning:

> MS Chief Security Officer to work for White House
> Posted by chrisd on Monday December 03, @03:36AM from the
> h4x0rs-r3j01c3-m4dl3y dept.

> NerveGas writes "An Interesting People message reports that Howard Schmidt,
> Microsoft's Chief Security Advisor, will be leaving MS to work as a security 
> adviser for the White House. With the track record that Microsoft has in the 
> area of computer security, this strikes me as a very bad move." CD: you'd 
> think people would examine the job someone did at thier previous job before 
> offering them a new one. Isn't this is like putting Capt. Hazelwood in charge 
> of an oil tanker?

Comes from some list (interesting people) I'm not familiar with, so I
can't really validate it.  Scary just the same.  Here's the link:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/02/2342247&mode=thread

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