Wednesday, April 09, 2003

Sunset never! PATRIOT may live forever. Republicans Want Terrorism Law Made Permanent. The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans are working on making permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal agents after the Sept. 11 attacks. By Eric Lichtblau. [New York Times: Politics] comment [] 3:09:15 PM

Y2K Deja Vu Wired has a nice interview with the guy who took Richard Clarke's place as uber cyber security guy.  The "what if" questions reminds me of the same "hype" concern which surrounded Y2K, mostly about critical failures that would place life and limb at risk -- and never happened.  While the concerns for security are real, are we spending too much time worrying about hypotheticals that may never occur? Meet the Minister of Net Defense. White House cybersecurity chief -- and lifelong hacker -- Howard Schmidt wants to protect America from weapons of mass disruption. By Douglas McGray from Wired magazine. [Wired News] comment [] 2:54:16 PM