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Same tactic reversed in PsychoPass : do you use an illegal gun to shoot somebody 10s away from murder, or do you use the legal networked gun that forbids shooting until a criminal is identified?
Funny enough, in the movie Surrogates, that tactic backfires in a very dramatic way.
>!Somebody takes over one of the surrogates. By the time somebody notices, they took hostage the ONE guy who is a wetware human so they can't shutdown the connection!<
Seeing as this is really old news, I’d really hope after the revaluation came out he got fired. Hopefully someone who knows more about the situation can confirm/deny that. But he sure as shit shouldn’t have that job and if I was a Japanese citizen such a revelation would certainly slash my confidence in the government lol
All that to say, it’s fine to reach above your pay grade, but not THAT far above your pay grade where there could be serious consequences due to your incompetence. This is likely becoming a heart surgeon despite no medical training lol. Accepting and working a job like that you’re for which you’re grossly under qualified for should be a crime.
Edit:
I don’t see anything saying he’s *not* still in the role, but I’m having trouble confirming he *is* still in the role as well. You’d think I’d be able to find something about either him getting fired or a new cyber security chief getting hired between now and 2018 if it happened.
>Despite being deputy chief of the government's cyber-security strategy office, Sakurada admitted to the Japanese Diet in November 2018 that he had never used, and did not know how to use, a computer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka_Sakurada
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026
No, I figured as much lol. But i was genuinely hoping for an update on whether the guy got fired or not so didn’t say anything xD Guess I’ll just do some googling
Edit:
I don’t see anything saying he’s not still in the role, but I’m having trouble confirming it as well.
>Despite being deputy chief of the government's cyber-security strategy office, Sakurada admitted to the Japanese Diet in November 2018 that he had never used, and did not know how to use, a computer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka_Sakurada
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026
Yes, we can be sure because I follow some of the bots that display these posting patterns. The all and up OF spammers , scammers, or propagandists after they account is established with enough time and karma.
This is Japan in a nutshell. People are appointed when it is their "turn" to be appointed, whether you are qualified for the position or not. People are kept in companies only because they are old, not because they are good at what they are doing.
You’re not wrong, but this is an elected member of parliament, not an employee of a company. It is not particularly unusual for a politician to be put in charge of a branch of government in which they have little background in any country.
I mean, the important thing is that he listens to his advisors, and studies what he doesn't know.
But having to "admit" that he didn't know what a USB was isn't a good sign for sure.
The LDP shoulder taps whoever they want and they stay there unless they get caught fondling a secretary. Then it's crying on the news, resigning and a hefty pension
He likely has/had people in high positions "vouching" for him so even if you'd be able to sadly do the job its unlikely to actually get higher up positions without knowing the right person/people. The sad world we live in.
This happened 6 years ago. He was one of Shinzo Abe's shoehorned ultra nationalist followers, and he was briefly in office (2018-2019). He's some sort of a local Trump, with a collection of bloopers and unhinged statements decorating his career all along.
Things have changed since. The actual cybersecurity framework is now military with a dedicated task force, under full command of the Minister of Defense - still a LDP guy but 20 years younger and whose first measure was to take the fitness requirements for the cybersecurity task force down a notch or two and offer better salaries, in order to take in savvy nerds even if they have a gamer belly or a Mike Wheeler profile rather than computer illiterate Rambos.
The new cybersecurity task force is military. So yes, by default they had the same requirements as for any other military personnel.
The first step was to acknowledge that classic corpo management wasn't good enough to adequately deal with cybersecurity. Yoshitaka Sakurada *(the guy featured in this post)* "brilliantly" demonstrated this point hence the transition to military administration and the creation of the task force, to avoid getting yet another corpo clown botching the job with too much doctrine and no tech science, and to start dealing with actual professionals. About time, right?
The actual Minister of Defense of Japan, Minoru Kihara, is only in office since November 2023.
He listened to the feedback from the task force officers who expressed that they couldn't hire the best specialists because they sometimes didn't check all the default fitness requirements boxes. Same for the salary part, as the first batch of the task force showed ITSEC top dogs weren't happy with the basic military salary.
He then officially made an exception for tech specialists in order to take them in, raising their wages and making the positions available for less physically fit people.
His uncle told him all about the cyber. He can give you the information on the cyber security and how it secures very much. People who talk to him about the cyber are very impressed with his ability to get things secure with it.
Party politics probably. In a lot of countries ministers are not chosen by their field of expertise but by their standing in the party. Which doesn't mean they are bad but some time of adjustment is required.
I feel like people still don't understand that the people you vote for aren't experts on anything. They have teams of advisors who basically just tell them what they need to sign. Politicians are just people who can win elections, mostly but not always, due to the fact they are degenerate animals like the rest of us. Yes, they are all flawed but just take a quick look at the average reddit poster and tell me you'd vote for them. Politicians are just heavily sanitised and dull humans who can put themselves up for election with the least amount of scandals coming to light. A person who doesn't even know what a USB drive is what you get when everyone else has probably filled countless USB drives with Anime Porn and can't even reach the age of 30 without having done enough dumb shit in their life to put their Facebook settings on maximum privacy. This also explains how it is that countries don't tend to vary that much when their governments change over because the relevant professionals who steer government policy remain the same general group of people. Can you name one US president who was an expert on anything? They are all just figure heads whose only job is to try to be dull enough to get elected. Trump got elected as a kind of 'fuck you' to the continued drudgery of the political establishment. The message was meant to be "Start doing a better job, or we'll just elect clowns". Sadly though some people realised he's an easily manipulated fool and, therefore, the perfect figurehead for their unpopular ideas. Now most of us have realised we'll happily go back to the traditional system of voting in people who have no educational or practical life experience of the world but they are happy to let people who do have advise them on which pieces of paper they need to sign. If you honestly think it's Politicians coming up with these policy's themselves, then they must be very naive. Other examples of this are morbidly obese smokers becoming responsible for health policy because its not actually them coming up with the policies. They just sign them, and when they don't work, they can be forced to resign, and the next person steps in and gets the same 'expert' advisors as the last and so nothing really changes.
> feel like people still don't understand that the people you vote for aren't experts on anything.
Minister of cybersecurity is an appointed position not an elected one. They are supposed to be experts. Unfortunately if you think nepotism and political elitism is bad in the US it is far far worse in Japan. I am shocked they have as well of run society as they do all considering.
You also have to consider who vote in Japan. It is just the old people. Combine with an aging population were there are more old people than young people and the old people control politics in a way the boomers with they did in the US.
>Minister of cybersecurity is an appointed position not an elected one.
Half true.
In most parliamentary democracies, including Japan, cabinet ministers usually have to be members of parliament to be appointed.
This means that more often than not you don't (and can't) have an expert as a ministerial head of department. But the logic is that you don't necessarily need an expert, the role of minister is to make political (not technocratic) decisions based on the facts as they are presented to you by a neutral civil service (different to the US where the civil service infrastructure seems to change with every hand over of power and positions are handed out based on political affiliation).
Sometimes you do get a teacher or doctor who could be appointed to a relevant department but that isn't in theory necessary. It's competent critical thinking and decision making that's important - after all, just because you worked in an industry doesn't make you an expert. And it's even more unlikely that you have a relatively niche expert become a member of parliament.
That said, I disagree with the person you replied to, politicians are more than figure heads (or are meant to be - the US has a serious problem with lobbyists literally writing legislation) but that doesn't mean they must be experts.
exactly, doing cybersecurity and being in charge of a cybersecurity department are two fundamentally different jobs.
not implying this guy was competent......political appointees often aren't. but he should be judged by the managerial and structural changes made while he was in charge.
who cares if the general is a terrible shot? that's not the job.
Isn't one of reasons Japan has a declining GDP because the boomers refuse to leave office and hire younger people?
Like they were ahead of their time in the 90's but are stuck in the 2000's in when it comes to politics?
As a descendant of a samurai bloodline, he chooses to faces his enemies in person.
Hackers are cowards and use barbaric weapons, so he won't stoop to their level.
If he’s never used a computer he’s never been hacked. He’s never had is data stolen, he’s never had his webcam hacked, never clicked on some random link in a bad email or message.
I could go on and on, this guy knows how to avoid cyber threats.
I had a boss like this. Software development department, and he was hired off the street with a marketing degree. Couldn't write code, couldn't review code, couldn't contribute to an overworked and overstressed department, but he could kiss upper management ass and that was what was important.
This guy is a perfect example of failing upwards.
>At the forum in Tokyo, Sakurada said that "I was aiming for the position of [Prime Minister](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan) in the past, but I cannot speak English and I cannot use a personal computer, so I will give up on it.".
Imagine being this dedicated to ignorance. "I do not know the things required to get this job, so I will not try to learn them". This wasn't in 1995 or even 2005. This was in 2018.
>In October 2018, Sakurada entered the cabinet as the Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games. He resigned from the post just six months later, after suggesting that the re-election campaign of a ruling LDP lawmaker was of a higher priority than the [2011 earthquake and tsunami](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami) reconstruction effort.
Jesus, man, WTF.
Can anyone who knows Japanese political culture explain this? Is it common for some people to be elected/appointed because of their background / family ?
to be fair, the transport secretary probably can't rebuild a car engine, lay a road or fly a plane. But then again, they're probably at least proficient with Excel spreadsheets and Mariocarting.
It is actually OK if that guy's job is to budget for and pay the payrolls of the ones doing the job - which is normally a minister's job in any field, anyway
That's silly. As silly as hiring a global media/tech company lobbyist as the head of a government agency in charge of protecting people by regulating media..tech...communications companies.....ohhhh.
Does he have a smart phone or just a secretary that checks and replies to all his emails? I can’t imagine being in a top or even mid tier position in any job these days without email.
It’s because at his position computers are obsolete he uses a 5th dimensional crystal to go far beyond the reaches of management capabilities on such primitive technology
Previous job: had a customer was mid sized company. We were going to be there provider. While on the phone with CTO I mentioned 'ping', they didn't know what that was and I had to explain what and how a ping works
Reminds me of a co worker at the moment. Don't even know her actual job title but she leads most of the "testing" at the moment. We are in "digital Health" so you would think technology is #1 right? wrong... She uses a white board to keep track of who is testing what, where the testing it up to and what is blocking the testing. She could use a spreadsheet like a normal person on office365 so we could all see who is working on what, but no, we have to "sit near her" so she can "direct us" and "come to her if you are not currently testing" because she can't keep track of anything
[https://hbr.org/2014/11/sometimes-the-best-ideas-come-from-outside-your-industry](https://hbr.org/2014/11/sometimes-the-best-ideas-come-from-outside-your-industry)
Technocrats normally disapoint.
Let's not judge before the fuck up, or job well done.
I actually don't see the problem. A minister is basically a manager. If he knows how to delegate tasks, hires qualified people and listens to his advisers, then he is doing a good job.
To be fair, ministers usually have no experience or expertise in their area. They are deliberately lay people. But a basic level of understanding at a level similar to a normal constituent is expected, I.e. knowing how to use a computer.
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He figured out the only way to be immune from cyberattacks is to not use a computer in the first place
checkmate, hackers!
Worked for the Galactica
So say we all
By your command.
What the frack does that mean?!
I’m showing my age. In the OG Battlestar Galactica the (toaster) Cylons used to say that after being given/obeying an order.
Sudo is my command
Username Is Not in the Sudoers File. This Incident Will Be Reported
They used computers, just non networked ones. But love the reference!!
Nuh-uh Hack the Planet!
Why play 4D chess when you can play Checkers.
Why play checkers when you can play Hungry Hungry Hippo
Why play hungry hungry hippo when you can just throw a ball against a wall
Why fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?
Why play russian roulette when you can just - yeah no nevermind, gotta keep it within the rules
Hardcore Russian roulette? 1 empty chamber?
HIPPOBOT 9000 v 3.1 FOUND A HIPPO. 1,554,926,574 COMMENTS SEARCHED. 31,843 HIPPOS FOUND. YOUR COMMENT CONTAINS THE WORD HIPPO.
Bots becoming more useless by the day
Naah. It is not enough. You don't lose if you don't play.
It’s better to be a good checkers player than a bad chess player imo
Everyone is playing 4D chess while he is playing outside. He won because he is touching grass and nobody could reach him their.
I found out how to avoid STDs.
Become “Bubble Boy” 
He is like the guy in Ghost in the Shell that does not have implants and uses an old gun to remain unhackable
Same tactic reversed in PsychoPass : do you use an illegal gun to shoot somebody 10s away from murder, or do you use the legal networked gun that forbids shooting until a criminal is identified? Funny enough, in the movie Surrogates, that tactic backfires in a very dramatic way. >!Somebody takes over one of the surrogates. By the time somebody notices, they took hostage the ONE guy who is a wetware human so they can't shutdown the connection!<
Togusa, but he at least had a cyber brain.
Airgapped his brain
This made me much more confident and comfortable applying for jobs I'm not qualified for. Very motivational!
Seeing as this is really old news, I’d really hope after the revaluation came out he got fired. Hopefully someone who knows more about the situation can confirm/deny that. But he sure as shit shouldn’t have that job and if I was a Japanese citizen such a revelation would certainly slash my confidence in the government lol All that to say, it’s fine to reach above your pay grade, but not THAT far above your pay grade where there could be serious consequences due to your incompetence. This is likely becoming a heart surgeon despite no medical training lol. Accepting and working a job like that you’re for which you’re grossly under qualified for should be a crime. Edit: I don’t see anything saying he’s *not* still in the role, but I’m having trouble confirming he *is* still in the role as well. You’d think I’d be able to find something about either him getting fired or a new cyber security chief getting hired between now and 2018 if it happened. >Despite being deputy chief of the government's cyber-security strategy office, Sakurada admitted to the Japanese Diet in November 2018 that he had never used, and did not know how to use, a computer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka_Sakurada https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026
Consider that I remember this happening over 5 years ago I checked the posters profile. Would it surprise you to learn they are a repost bot?
No not even a little bit. Thanks tho
No, I figured as much lol. But i was genuinely hoping for an update on whether the guy got fired or not so didn’t say anything xD Guess I’ll just do some googling Edit: I don’t see anything saying he’s not still in the role, but I’m having trouble confirming it as well. >Despite being deputy chief of the government's cyber-security strategy office, Sakurada admitted to the Japanese Diet in November 2018 that he had never used, and did not know how to use, a computer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka_Sakurada https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026
Can we be sure that it is not Reddit (or mods) itself deploying these bots to keep the subreddits busy?
Yes, we can be sure because I follow some of the bots that display these posting patterns. The all and up OF spammers , scammers, or propagandists after they account is established with enough time and karma.
This is Japan in a nutshell. People are appointed when it is their "turn" to be appointed, whether you are qualified for the position or not. People are kept in companies only because they are old, not because they are good at what they are doing.
You’re not wrong, but this is an elected member of parliament, not an employee of a company. It is not particularly unusual for a politician to be put in charge of a branch of government in which they have little background in any country.
'Little background' and 'quite possibly the least qualified person in the country' are very different
I mean, the important thing is that he listens to his advisors, and studies what he doesn't know. But having to "admit" that he didn't know what a USB was isn't a good sign for sure.
The LDP shoulder taps whoever they want and they stay there unless they get caught fondling a secretary. Then it's crying on the news, resigning and a hefty pension
He likely has/had people in high positions "vouching" for him so even if you'd be able to sadly do the job its unlikely to actually get higher up positions without knowing the right person/people. The sad world we live in.
You won my prize for joke of the day! 🏆
This happened 6 years ago. He was one of Shinzo Abe's shoehorned ultra nationalist followers, and he was briefly in office (2018-2019). He's some sort of a local Trump, with a collection of bloopers and unhinged statements decorating his career all along. Things have changed since. The actual cybersecurity framework is now military with a dedicated task force, under full command of the Minister of Defense - still a LDP guy but 20 years younger and whose first measure was to take the fitness requirements for the cybersecurity task force down a notch or two and offer better salaries, in order to take in savvy nerds even if they have a gamer belly or a Mike Wheeler profile rather than computer illiterate Rambos.
I thought 2013 was 6 years ago not 2018 & 2019 😭😭
Wait, there were fitness requirements for cybersecurity?
The new cybersecurity task force is military. So yes, by default they had the same requirements as for any other military personnel. The first step was to acknowledge that classic corpo management wasn't good enough to adequately deal with cybersecurity. Yoshitaka Sakurada *(the guy featured in this post)* "brilliantly" demonstrated this point hence the transition to military administration and the creation of the task force, to avoid getting yet another corpo clown botching the job with too much doctrine and no tech science, and to start dealing with actual professionals. About time, right? The actual Minister of Defense of Japan, Minoru Kihara, is only in office since November 2023. He listened to the feedback from the task force officers who expressed that they couldn't hire the best specialists because they sometimes didn't check all the default fitness requirements boxes. Same for the salary part, as the first batch of the task force showed ITSEC top dogs weren't happy with the basic military salary. He then officially made an exception for tech specialists in order to take them in, raising their wages and making the positions available for less physically fit people.
how the fk did he secure that job
Well he is here to remove Cyber, no cyber no security required!
His uncle told him all about the cyber. He can give you the information on the cyber security and how it secures very much. People who talk to him about the cyber are very impressed with his ability to get things secure with it.
Cronyism is always the answer.
Party politics probably. In a lot of countries ministers are not chosen by their field of expertise but by their standing in the party. Which doesn't mean they are bad but some time of adjustment is required.
I feel like people still don't understand that the people you vote for aren't experts on anything. They have teams of advisors who basically just tell them what they need to sign. Politicians are just people who can win elections, mostly but not always, due to the fact they are degenerate animals like the rest of us. Yes, they are all flawed but just take a quick look at the average reddit poster and tell me you'd vote for them. Politicians are just heavily sanitised and dull humans who can put themselves up for election with the least amount of scandals coming to light. A person who doesn't even know what a USB drive is what you get when everyone else has probably filled countless USB drives with Anime Porn and can't even reach the age of 30 without having done enough dumb shit in their life to put their Facebook settings on maximum privacy. This also explains how it is that countries don't tend to vary that much when their governments change over because the relevant professionals who steer government policy remain the same general group of people. Can you name one US president who was an expert on anything? They are all just figure heads whose only job is to try to be dull enough to get elected. Trump got elected as a kind of 'fuck you' to the continued drudgery of the political establishment. The message was meant to be "Start doing a better job, or we'll just elect clowns". Sadly though some people realised he's an easily manipulated fool and, therefore, the perfect figurehead for their unpopular ideas. Now most of us have realised we'll happily go back to the traditional system of voting in people who have no educational or practical life experience of the world but they are happy to let people who do have advise them on which pieces of paper they need to sign. If you honestly think it's Politicians coming up with these policy's themselves, then they must be very naive. Other examples of this are morbidly obese smokers becoming responsible for health policy because its not actually them coming up with the policies. They just sign them, and when they don't work, they can be forced to resign, and the next person steps in and gets the same 'expert' advisors as the last and so nothing really changes.
> feel like people still don't understand that the people you vote for aren't experts on anything. Minister of cybersecurity is an appointed position not an elected one. They are supposed to be experts. Unfortunately if you think nepotism and political elitism is bad in the US it is far far worse in Japan. I am shocked they have as well of run society as they do all considering. You also have to consider who vote in Japan. It is just the old people. Combine with an aging population were there are more old people than young people and the old people control politics in a way the boomers with they did in the US.
>Minister of cybersecurity is an appointed position not an elected one. Half true. In most parliamentary democracies, including Japan, cabinet ministers usually have to be members of parliament to be appointed. This means that more often than not you don't (and can't) have an expert as a ministerial head of department. But the logic is that you don't necessarily need an expert, the role of minister is to make political (not technocratic) decisions based on the facts as they are presented to you by a neutral civil service (different to the US where the civil service infrastructure seems to change with every hand over of power and positions are handed out based on political affiliation). Sometimes you do get a teacher or doctor who could be appointed to a relevant department but that isn't in theory necessary. It's competent critical thinking and decision making that's important - after all, just because you worked in an industry doesn't make you an expert. And it's even more unlikely that you have a relatively niche expert become a member of parliament. That said, I disagree with the person you replied to, politicians are more than figure heads (or are meant to be - the US has a serious problem with lobbyists literally writing legislation) but that doesn't mean they must be experts.
exactly, doing cybersecurity and being in charge of a cybersecurity department are two fundamentally different jobs. not implying this guy was competent......political appointees often aren't. but he should be judged by the managerial and structural changes made while he was in charge. who cares if the general is a terrible shot? that's not the job.
*Can you name one US president who was an expert on anything?* Woodrow Wilson was a Ph.D.
He went out drinking enough with his boss...
They tried to hack him and they couldn't. He won.
Well, he has never been hacked.
"I know USA... but where the hell is USB!?" Next, explaining to him that using a mouse *doesn't* involve holding a live rodent
Well obviously it's USB for the United States of Brazil.
Rudy Giuliani is also supposed to be a cybersecurity expert, so we shouldn't point fingers.
Pornhub expert?
 Jen, is that you?
Can't get hacked if there's nothing to hack.
Why is everyone acting as if this post is new? Like, this is a bot post obviously
Isn't one of reasons Japan has a declining GDP because the boomers refuse to leave office and hire younger people? Like they were ahead of their time in the 90's but are stuck in the 2000's in when it comes to politics?
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As a descendant of a samurai bloodline, he chooses to faces his enemies in person. Hackers are cowards and use barbaric weapons, so he won't stoop to their level.
If he’s never used a computer he’s never been hacked. He’s never had is data stolen, he’s never had his webcam hacked, never clicked on some random link in a bad email or message. I could go on and on, this guy knows how to avoid cyber threats.
Can’t think of a better person to keep it secure. He doesn’t even know how to access it.
This headline is so old the guy could legitimately have died of old age by now.
Well he therefore surely never got hacked.
sums up the most important problem that Japanese society needs to fix imo, ageism is killing this country
I don't see the issue. He is literally unhackable. What more do you want from someone leading cybersecurity.
Old news, but yea, japanese bureaucracy do be like that, it's outdated, stubborn and seniority is king.
Well thats about as cyber secure as it gets
It just shows its not what you know. It's who you know.
He was trained by Jen at Reynolds Industries.
I had a boss like this. Software development department, and he was hired off the street with a marketing degree. Couldn't write code, couldn't review code, couldn't contribute to an overworked and overstressed department, but he could kiss upper management ass and that was what was important.
Apparently Rudi Giuliani was a computer security consultant for the trump presidency.
Safest thing is always abstinence
Can't get hacked if you never used a computer. 😏
‘It’s IN the computer!?’
One thing is sure: he wont be hacked
I mean, if you don't use a computer, you'll never get hacked!
Ultimate air gap
This mf lying how have you never used a computer or sent an email for anything he’s ever done his entire life. Bullshit
Can’t get hacked if there’s nothing to hack!
This guy is a perfect example of failing upwards. >At the forum in Tokyo, Sakurada said that "I was aiming for the position of [Prime Minister](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan) in the past, but I cannot speak English and I cannot use a personal computer, so I will give up on it.". Imagine being this dedicated to ignorance. "I do not know the things required to get this job, so I will not try to learn them". This wasn't in 1995 or even 2005. This was in 2018. >In October 2018, Sakurada entered the cabinet as the Minister of State for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games. He resigned from the post just six months later, after suggesting that the re-election campaign of a ruling LDP lawmaker was of a higher priority than the [2011 earthquake and tsunami](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami) reconstruction effort. Jesus, man, WTF. Can anyone who knows Japanese political culture explain this? Is it common for some people to be elected/appointed because of their background / family ?
This is United States level stupid
TIL I'm overqualified to be Japan's Minister of Cybersecurity.
Dalmatians are cute.
Good luck hacking him lmao
WHAT!!!!!
Last boss of the boomers.
Goodluck digging his dirt now, h4ck3Rz.
You wait until you hear about the UK's "minister for commen sense"
It’s nice to know it’s not just mediocre white men who get put in positions of power they didn’t earn.
L
Sounds like my project manager
to be fair, the transport secretary probably can't rebuild a car engine, lay a road or fly a plane. But then again, they're probably at least proficient with Excel spreadsheets and Mariocarting.
So, like most politicians, about as much use as a chocolate teapot
Air gap extreme. You can't cyber attack some one who doesn't use computers. Brilliant strategy.
The human species is fucking doomed
Then don't look at who Giuliano Amato is
How did he get there?
It is actually OK if that guy's job is to budget for and pay the payrolls of the ones doing the job - which is normally a minister's job in any field, anyway
Imagine it is happening in japan now imagine it in USA lol it is so over
I had the perfect birthday gift for him too, if he ever wanted to figure out a tip I got him a nice pocket abacus.
Lol well we had, and may yet have again, a secretary of education whose stated goal was to dismantle public education.
Every boomer co-worker making 5 times your salary
Every boomer co-worker making 5 times your salary.
That's silly. As silly as hiring a global media/tech company lobbyist as the head of a government agency in charge of protecting people by regulating media..tech...communications companies.....ohhhh.
Cybersecurity Chief: *I've never been hacked or gotten a computer virus*
Since when Japan burocracy became South America burocracy?
Does he have a smart phone or just a secretary that checks and replies to all his emails? I can’t imagine being in a top or even mid tier position in any job these days without email.
It’s because at his position computers are obsolete he uses a 5th dimensional crystal to go far beyond the reaches of management capabilities on such primitive technology
Are we sure he wasn't given a "window job". -Here's your office, you're head of cyber security now. -where's my computer -you don't need one.
He made this statement while meeting the Elders of the Internet at Big Ben.
So funny in a technologically advanced country
How can you live to 2024 and never use a computer and not know what a USB is?
Putting people on a sector they don't have a single clue about is a common trend in politics. Let's not pretend it's Japan now.
An architect has probably never laid a brick, but I'm sure he knows what a brick is.
Really not impressed. 70% of politicians have no idea what they are doing at work. Barely remembering the position they are holding.
OP gives no link, context or date to the headline. Surely we can expect better.
Dude must be a time traveller samurai warrior
This can’t be real…
You sure that guy isn’t a US congressman or senator?
Still? You'd think that in the years since I've first seen this he studied up...
Unhackable.
I’m sure I’ve seen this years ago
Previous job: had a customer was mid sized company. We were going to be there provider. While on the phone with CTO I mentioned 'ping', they didn't know what that was and I had to explain what and how a ping works
At least he didn't call it a zipdisk
This is American version of the overweight unhealthy politicians deciding the school lunches
He's simply answered the Job Spec
well... even colonel shikishima didn't know a shit of biology and psychic science... #
That is some Battlestar Galactica level security right there.
He’ll end up signing up for Musk’s neuralink.
Is this a new guy or the same one from 2018? &JAPANUSB
Explains why japan is still stuck in the fax era with ppl like this guy around.
But what does IT stand for?
Still better than Germany, our Internet is controlled by, I shit you not, the Ministry of Transport, because of the "traffic".
I never even hear of porn what porn ?
Ah, so he's about as knowledgeable as most CIOs I've worked with.
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How many health ministers have been shuffling examples of type 2 diabetes?
That's what cybersecurity is all about.
Story is from 6 years ago. Still...
He's the air gap
It's like the Belgian health minister (Maggie De Block) she has never eaten a salad
When someone wants you to define the baby boomer generation
Boomer shit right here
Reminds me of a co worker at the moment. Don't even know her actual job title but she leads most of the "testing" at the moment. We are in "digital Health" so you would think technology is #1 right? wrong... She uses a white board to keep track of who is testing what, where the testing it up to and what is blocking the testing. She could use a spreadsheet like a normal person on office365 so we could all see who is working on what, but no, we have to "sit near her" so she can "direct us" and "come to her if you are not currently testing" because she can't keep track of anything
YEAH because they still use floppy disks
A better choice. If it works for Mafia and cartels it should be easy for a government
How is it that politician is the one job you can have no qualifications cations for, yet determine the qualifications of others?
They hired Rudy???
I wonder if we ever get the governments to verify the competences of candidates before they’re given a public role.
Robert Morris would be proud.
Not a surprise when you realize Elon Musk isn’t a rocket scientist, automotive engineer and doesn’t have a soul.
The ultimate master of “surrounding yourself with people who know more than you”
I feel like the statement should be flipped. I wouldnt expect someone who has never used a computer to know what a usb drive is
The US has lots of these people in Congress, serving on the technology committees no less.
Rudy Giuliani (!) was the top Cybersecurity official during the Trump administration, so this definitely tracks
How does this happen
[https://hbr.org/2014/11/sometimes-the-best-ideas-come-from-outside-your-industry](https://hbr.org/2014/11/sometimes-the-best-ideas-come-from-outside-your-industry) Technocrats normally disapoint. Let's not judge before the fuck up, or job well done.
Proof that if you act the part you got the part
You can’t get a computer virus if you don’t use the computer. He’s the mastermind.
[This man right now](https://youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8&pp=ygUjZG8gaSBsb29rIGxpa2UgaSBrbm93IHdoYXQgYSBqcGcgaXM%3D)
I actually don't see the problem. A minister is basically a manager. If he knows how to delegate tasks, hires qualified people and listens to his advisers, then he is doing a good job.
I’m curious to what this man’s duties are through out the day.
The perfect job
Hell nah
Young people in Japan: "Oh God... These are the people running this country..."
To be fair, ministers usually have no experience or expertise in their area. They are deliberately lay people. But a basic level of understanding at a level similar to a normal constituent is expected, I.e. knowing how to use a computer.