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DHS to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts
cnn ^ | 10/02/09 | Carol Cratty

Posted on 10/02/2009 1:27:22 PM PDT by Nachum

The Department of Homeland Security will hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years to help protect U.S. computer networks, an Obama administration official said. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano seeks to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano seeks to hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts.

"Cybersecurity is one of our most urgent priorities," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in making the announcement Thursday.

She unveiled the plans at an event marking the beginning of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhodhs; cybersecurity; democrats; dhs; helpwanted; hire; homelandsecurity; internet; obama
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1 posted on 10/02/2009 1:27:22 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 10/02/2009 1:27:55 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Countdown to conspiracy posts....

5...4...3...2...


3 posted on 10/02/2009 1:28:39 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: Nachum

Big, BIG government “creating” more “jobs” for dummies.


4 posted on 10/02/2009 1:29:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't remember Americans being called "racists" when we fought against Hillarycare.)
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To: Nachum

Any bets on how many will be non-American visa workers?


5 posted on 10/02/2009 1:29:33 PM PDT by rocksblues (Sarah and Joe, Real Americans!)
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To: Nachum

I am one of those “cybersecurity experts” they’d likely be hiring, including having the Masters in Information Assurance developed and chartered by the NSA. However, I’d have a real hard time justifying working for this administration, even given that I know we as a Nation desperately need the infusion of computer security.


6 posted on 10/02/2009 1:35:26 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: Little Pig

>>this administration

The country and nation are more than the Administration.

And jihadis don’t fight by the Marquis’ rules.

If we’re on the defensive, they’re gonna wanna take advantage of it.


7 posted on 10/02/2009 1:40:20 PM PDT by swarthyguy (MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
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To: rocksblues
Any bets on how many will be non-American visa workers?

What % will be named Mohammed?

8 posted on 10/02/2009 1:41:47 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Nachum

I think we need better security for our medical records. As it stands now, more and more hospitals are going with vendors use widespread databases. If I were to ask the hospital for names and addresses of all the people who have access to my medical records, it would probably fill a book. We need to bring our medical records back home locally and not put them out in cyberspace.


9 posted on 10/02/2009 1:52:17 PM PDT by Samizdat
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To: Nachum
The Obama administration has set cybersecurity as a top priority but has yet to hire a cyberczar to head up its efforts.

Of course, "cyberczar," of friggn course...

10 posted on 10/02/2009 1:53:54 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Nachum
The Department of Homeland Security will hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity experts over the next three years to help protect U.S. computer networks,

... to hack and attack the sites and systems of pro-American, anti-communist, freedom-loving patriots.

11 posted on 10/02/2009 1:57:21 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Nachum

who says it’s a jobless recovery?


12 posted on 10/02/2009 2:13:34 PM PDT by usshadley (It's time to choose..the empire or the republic? You can't have both. Time is running out.)
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To: rocksblues
Any bets on how many will be non-American visa workers?

If this follows normal government hiring procedures, none. Security clearances will be required.

13 posted on 10/02/2009 2:30:57 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: TLI
Of course, "cyberczar," of friggn course...

No, no, no! What we need is a wizard!

14 posted on 10/02/2009 2:37:51 PM PDT by foxfield (Sarah Palin, America's "girl next door".)
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To: Little Pig

Ditto that. Got a dice inquiry along these lines in this morning’s mail. No thanks.


15 posted on 10/02/2009 2:41:59 PM PDT by SoDak (bitter clinger)
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To: angkor
Countdown to conspiracy posts....

5...4...3...2...

You know, it isn't really a conspiracy theory to say that this administration would love to shut down criticism on the internet; their FCC "diversity" czar Mark Lloyd has said exactly that. I think the Obama administration would nationalize the internet backbone in a heartbeat if they thought it was in their interests.

16 posted on 10/02/2009 2:51:10 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Proud to be an American, where I least I know I'm free!)
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To: backwoods-engineer

>>> the Obama administration would nationalize the internet backbone in a heartbeat if they thought it was in their interests. <<<

who would run it for them?


17 posted on 10/02/2009 3:05:58 PM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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To: Nachum

I watched ‘State of Play’ on DVD last night. A little plodding and longer than it needed to be, but worth the cheap price of admission to watch at home. (Based on a BBC series; Russell Crowe, Ben Afleck, Robin Wright.)

It deals with a murder, a CongressRat and the takeover of Homeland Security (which, in real-life, is FLUSH With gazillions of dollars in contracts for the taking!) by ‘Soldiers of Fortune’ types.

Creepy...


18 posted on 10/02/2009 3:26:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: TLI

Does your name mean, “I’m gonna SEND you to Valhalla, Sucker!” or does it mean, “The End is Nigh?”


19 posted on 10/02/2009 3:35:59 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: angkor
who would run it for them?

Are you thinking a company like Google wouldn't be interested in "filtering" content?

They have been out of that closet on that for years, yet they steadfastly refuse to block al Qaida snuff films, and it's not easy to have them removed.

How long did it take CBS to acquire everything they wanted to know about Buckhead when he realized that the phony National Guard reprimand from the 70's was written on a window's template? An hour?

And that was during a Bush administration.

One of our local posters emailed an anonymous response to an article, and later found her name, town she lived in, and occupation used in a subsequent article.

Everything the left was accusing "Darth Cheney" of in the way of domestic surveillance, they were already engaged in, and to disconcertingly low levels.

Obama is currently in the process of "sharing" control of the internet, to be more "fair".

That doesn't send a red flag up for you?

20 posted on 10/03/2009 11:09:24 AM PDT by 4woodenboats (Facts are like fried eggs - just give 'em to me hot off the griddle, I'll add my own dang salt .)
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