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Alleged zero-day viruses and affinity worms will sunder business records, as reported in Network World Fusion and credited to a Schmidt speech at an Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) conference. Brokerage house trading records will be scrambled, corporate networks rendered molten, CEOs humiliated.
This is not the worst. Traffic lights, pacemakers, appliances all subject to outages and interruptions because in the future theyre controlled via Internet, declares Schmidt. The power grid could fail catastrophically by 2005! [That was certainly prescient. -- DD, 2010.] Cats and dogs fornicate in the street as the sky turns black as sackcloth.
If its the first time for you at one of these [security] cons, where your employer coughs up anywhere from $500 $1900 for the price of admission, Schmidts virus alarums might seem quite remarkable, even prescient. The remora-like journalists who get in gratis will assuage any lingering doubts you have as to the value of his lecture by emphasizing the most fantastic elements of it in the trades. If your boss reads the published result, its all good. You were educated at the feet of the guru.
In simplest terms, Schmidt is a computer security celebrity junketeer, a highly specialized occupation somewhat obscured by an official biography bulging with professional-strength acronyms. Much of his time is spent as a featured speaker jetting around corporate America. Search engines return Schmidt lectures everywhere in 2002: Atlantic City/HTCIA 2002 con, Cybercrime 2002, IT Business Forum, RIMS.ORG, New York States the Chicago National Cybercrime Conference, South Sound (Washington), the National State Association of Chief Information Officers midyear confab, High-End Computing in an Insecure World, WSATA 2002 (the Western States Association of Tax Administrators), Trust Security in Cyberspace at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Defending Against Information Warfare, the Secure e-Business Executive Summit, Winning the War on Cyberterrorism at Washington University of St. Louis, Microsofts Government Leaders 2002
Ouch, I feel an airline coach-class thrombosis coming on just browsing the list!
As a deliverer of keynote addresses, Schmidt has created a powerful image of furious action in the name of national security. Indeed, he has become an invaluable mover in the computer-trouble industry economy.
Not for everyday public idlers are these affairs, oh no.
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