White House appointment: Officer of Cyber-security

[Declan McCullagh]

Just to be clear: The fellow is Richard Clarke. Roger Clarke is the
Australian cryptographer/academic/engineer:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02621.html

-Declan


On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 02:20:05PM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> LA Times reported it in today's paper:
> http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000080558oct09.story
> 
> Clarke is correct. He's a Clinton admin holdover. Rather hawkish:
> 
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-02337.html
> >The gloom and doom sayers pointed out why the nation was on the verge
> >of an "electronic Pearl Harbor." Chief among them was Richard Clarke,
> >the National Security Council's "Dr. Strangelove" of cyber-security.
> 
> A letter that Tauzin sent Clarke last year:
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-01680.html
> 
> Google will have more on Clarke. But this isn't that terribly
> interesting, IMHO.
> 
> -Declan
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Xeni Jardin wrote:
> > White House press spokesman Ari Fleischer just announced pending
> > appointment of the "Officer of Cyber-Security" to the Homeland Defense
> > Team. I believe the appointee name was Roger Clarke, I may have the
> > first name wrong. They're going to brief more on this in about 30
> > minutes, and I'm sure more details will be evident by day's end.