Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'

Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' by michaelt on Thursday November 15, 2018 @12:43PM (#18461404)

Let's say a minister talks to two groups, which give him two different pieces of advice. Each group is an industry body with supporters that includes some companies the minister has heard of.

Group A says he should ban IoT devices that don't come with a guarantee 5 years of security updates.

Group B says he should ban cell phones that don't come with antivirus software.

How would you propose a minister weight the advice of the two industry bodies?

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Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' by tomatotomato37 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @06:05PM (#18464329)

Ideally the minister would troll[1] the universities for security experts and defer those type of decisions to them so that he would have more time to play the politics game and secure funding and resources

In actuality he would probably try banning keyboards in the organization after learning USB devices could carry viruses

[1] fishing definition

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Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' by settler4 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @07:13PM (#18464856)

Do whatever the one that donates more money to him wants him to do.

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