Publicly, Poindexter and the rest of the criminals under Bush Jr. went all-offence and launched the Information Awareness Office [0] to pursue a strategy of Tot

Publicly, Poindexter and the rest of the criminals under Bush Jr. went all-offence and launched the Information Awareness Office [0] to pursue a strategy of Total Information Awareness [1]. They wanted to ramp up ECHELON to hoover the whole world, started hoarding 0-days, and eventually created a whole industry to shop exploits. Now that is a business, nobody is going to make director leading the blue team. Privately, I speculate that they also assessed the state of play and just gave up. Microsoft back then still believed that code-signing would fix their bug-of-the-week run. Industry security practices were so weak as to be non-existent. Hell - telnet was still common. The only nice thing I can say about it was they had an amazingly honest logo [2]. That is, until congress freaked out and made them hide it all behind a bit SECRET sign. And so we heard little more about except via a steady drip of whistleblowers like Mark Klein, Thomas Drake, William Binney, and Snowdon. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office#/media/File:IAO-logo.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office#/...