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From: Peter Swire <peter@peterswire.net>
Date: March 12, 2009 1:55:34 PM EDT
To: "dave@farber.net" <dave@farber.net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post | 44 | washingtonpost.com
Dave:
Perhaps your list would be interested in one person’s perspective on Phil Reitinger.
I worked with Phil extensively when he was a senior lawyer in the Computer Crimes part of Justice in the late 90s. I was working at OMB on privacy issues, and we met intensively on a variety of projects, including on a legislative proposal on how to update the surveillance laws for the Internet age. I have seen Phil less regularly since, but have spoken with him in some depth on his computer security work at Microsoft.
Based on this experience, I think Phil is an outstanding choice. He has depth on many relevant aspects of the challenge: law enforcement; national security; a major company’s infosec’s efforts (and Microsoft has invested heavily in the area in recent years); inter-agency experience in government; public-private partnerships; and a very solid technical capability (far more than most lawyers). Also, partly through having to sit through meetings that I was at in government, he is very well-versed in the privacy and civil liberties issues.
Many of your readers may not have met Phil. But I think he has great experience and abilities to bring to his new job at DHS.
Peter
Prof. Peter P. Swire
C. William O'Neill Professor of Law
Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
(240) 994.4142, www.peterswire.net
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:18 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post | 44 | washingtonpost.com
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:18 AM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Microsoft Executive Tapped For Top DHS Cyber Post | 44 | washingtonpost.com
Phil Reitinger, currently "chief trustworthy infrastructure strategist" at Microsoft, will become deputy undersecretary of DHS's National Protections Program division.
