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Day 3 at CORE

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Eric
Oct 02, 2013
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Yet another day of fun at CORE today. Spent the day getting to know the people, figuring out critical strategies, and places where I can start inserting myself to have some immediate impact.

Started working on goals for the next 90 days with my boss, as well. Always good to know what you are supposed to do for the next quarter.

Today a few folks who have been reading Instapundit came over and read a few things I’ve written here when Glenn linked to my post about my new job. A few left comments and many thanks to them for starting to create a conversation. A prevailing theme appeared in those comments, both here and on Glenn’s blog, that I thought I would say something about.

I spoke of being in a war that we (the guys who are trying to protect information and property) are losing. The general tenor of the comments was that our government refuses to acknowledge there is a cyber war happening. And that even if they do, the government has made it much worse through the spying, eavesdropping…

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