The bastion of common sense security, Bruce Schneier, speaks his mind on the appointing of a cyber security Tsar…
http://threatpost.com/blogs/do-we-really-need-cybersecurity-czar
As the man himself puts it.
Really what I think is it shouldn’t be anybody. We do better without a top-down hierarchy. Our economic and political systems work best when there isn’t a dictator in charge, when there isn’t one organization in charge. My feeling is there shouldn’t be one organization in charge. Not only shouldn’t it be the NSA, it shouldn’t be anybody,
I find myself agreeing with him yet again. I don’t know where this idea of appointing so called “Tsars” came from since we aren’t a Russian Monarchy but it’s getting bloody annoying. Having a single person in charge of anything generally fails. That’s why we have the Senate and Congress (granted they don’t really do their jobs in my book). Our founding fathers saw first hand what having one buffoon in charge does so they set up a system with many buffoons in charge.
Having a single person in charge of anything, especially security, leaves a single point of failure in the system.