The sad thing about this task force is that some of the people on the committee are not the grunts that understand cyber-security, but the managers of the grunts. Some barely understand how the Internet even works and wouldn't know a TCP packet if it bite them. I am still amazed how the government can spend billions of dollars on cyber-security and still overlook some of the basic principles.

Over the years I tried to provide advice to several government organizations about cyber-security issues, but few corrected the problems even after years of assessments on the same systems.........!!!!

I hope that the government gets it right, but with the current politics of the United States I do not see that happening anytime soon.

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