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Re:Estonia institutes volunteer cyber army by nkassis on Friday January 07, 2011 @10:41AM (#2079804)
"The people who work in IT in the U.S. tend to be quite suspicious of government," says Stewart Baker, a former general counsel at the NSA. "Maybe they think that they're so much smarter than governments that they'll be able to handle an attack on their own. But there's a standoffishness that makes it much harder to have that kind of easy confidence that you can call on people in an emergency and that they'll be respond."

That section made me laugh, seriously, it's not because they think they are smarter and better, they just don't want to deal with the gov and be told what to do.

Re:Estonia institutes volunteer cyber army by pavel_lishin on Friday January 07, 2011 @10:52AM (#2079846)
I thought it's that they didn't trust the government.
Re:Estonia institutes volunteer cyber army by wladimir on Friday January 07, 2011 @11:45AM (#2080029)
Exactly. It's not any illusion of being 'better'. Some level of distrust is pretty rational, governments have their own agendas and those might not always be aligned with that of a multinational. And if multiple governments want to be involved in your IT infrastructure it could get pretty messy. You're inviting the "cyberwar" on your turf instead of keeping it out.
Re:Estonia institutes volunteer cyber army by sad_hacker on Friday January 07, 2011 @12:21PM (#2080162)
I guess Estonians do trust their government, at least the IT part of it, they even vote online.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Estonia