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href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/schmidt-cyberwar/"
target="_blank">“As for getting into the power grid, I can’t
see that that’s realistic,” Schmidt said.</a></span></p>
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font-size: medium; ">Likewise as that Threat Point article from
the start of his time in the White House points out: </p>
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line-height: 20px; text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255,
255, 255); ">“People have to recognize that when we close the
door and go home, we are just normal netizens like anyone else,”
Schmidt said. “I’ve been in the internet from the very
beginning. We don’t want to see it changed to where it is no
longer available and we don’t have the ability to do things<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>anonymously</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as we choose to in
certain realms.”</span></p>
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face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:
14px; line-height: 20px; ">Also in that article you can see
the initial tension between the NSA and the office of the
Cyber Security Coordinator. And</span></font></span><span
style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51,
51); font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;
line-height: 20px; text-align: left; "> the last few weeks have
been dominated by the NSA and White House together<a
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/26/legislation-address-growing-danger-cyber-threats?utm_source=related">
trying (and failing) </a>to push forward legislation that
regulates the security of critical infrastructure (such as the
power grid).</span></p>
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sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align:
left; ">But Schmidt's dream was always elsewhere - in the role
of human identity and the internet. And you can see it in his<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/06/25/national-strategy-trusted-identities-cyberspace"
target="_blank">trusted identities strategy</a>. This also is
where I see the largest influence from his Microsoft days, from
the days the technologies Passport and CardSpace (remember
them?) looked "promising".</span></p>
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color="#333333" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">But trusted
identities is not necessarily where people want to go, even
if it helps security in some way (or enables rather
revolutionary things like Internet voting). And aside from a
few favored vendors who wanted to make money implementing an
identity scheme for every American, you don't see a
groundswell of support. <br>
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Keep in mind that we have Aurora and the associated rise of
"APT", Wikileaks, and the <a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57330029-245/dhs-denies-report-of-water-utility-hack/">public
hacking of various water utilities</a> during his time in
office. Also during his time <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/china-us-vow-cooperation-cybersecurity_n_1498245.html">America
and Russia and China</a> have connected on CyberSecurity
more than you may have thought they would. Most of what a
Cyber Security Czar does is shrouded in secrecy, so it's
hard to truly say what Howard's legacy will be, but it's
probably safe to say a new identity management policy for
the entire country will not be it.<br>
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-dave<br>
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