Capital, thanks for joining us. Government is the engine that runs this city. Thats why government matters. Every week, we bring you the top headlines in tech, security, and management. Im your host, morris jones. Another week, anothebreach, this time at the irs. Agency officials first reported the attack in may, but its larger than they thought. Hackersattached accessed senensitive inforormatn on hundreds of tusands of taxpayers. Diane for the federal government, call in n a bad case of deja vu. First opium, now the irs reveals a hack that was larger than expected first opm, now the irs. Its nearly triple their initial 330 4000o at least people. Groundhog day, it is. Its now outime to stand up and say enough is enough. Weve had so many hacks. How many more people can be breached . Diane Social Security numbers and other data stolen from multiple sources to get past the multistep process and get past the agencys application, allowing users to view past tax returns. To those affected, t
This proposal. Yeah, that is a new slide that just got put up except for the fact that looks identical to the previous slide. There was identical service delivery. There is identical entitlement optimization. There is identical relaying of choice back to the cable system and there was identical delivery of programming. So what is the difference . Desire to systems that work the same. The difference is one is close and one is so good. They have no choice today. So with the competitive box or app functions exactly like the box or act in the cable system forces you to rent today, then the protections for copyright and security are the same. That is required. Theres nothing in here that allows third parties to disaggregate cable content, sell advertising around it, you know . Theres a misrepresentation thats been made today with the assertion that this item does allow that, an assertion that it creates all kinds of opportunities for free riders. It takes the same product that goes through
To b to c to d to e, on up through all the various iterations, you dont have to rebuild the Network Every time you do that. Thats one of the things thats taken into consideration as youre doing standard. Yes, sir . Thank you, sir. David mccabe from the hill. Im looking a the next couple months and it seems like im sorry, youre what . A the next couple months. It seems like there may be a point where youre fighting contentious battles. The set top box item lifeline and almost certainly a privacy ruling for isps. I wonder how you expect to handle the challenge of fighting on kind of three different fronts and also whether you are concerned at all that that might make it harder to get consensus among the five of you on less controversial atim tells . So, again, i think the reality comes down to the fact that there is, roughly 9 0 of the time theres consensus. All you get to see is the fun stuff. I was interested during the Media Coverage of Justice Scalias death that one of his quotes was
In behind roger and pick up. Because theres a few things that are going to be going on in the wireless i dont know if anybodys counting but its 41 days until the auction starts. And its great to have a guy like john in the Wireless Bureau who has been involved in this process leading up. And then john leaves a void. Fortunately mark stevens has been our cfo is stepping in to that. As acting managing director. Weve all grown to appreciate and respect mark, and the great skills that he brings. So were looking forward to him continuing that glide path that john put us on. So if there are no other things, i would have request one privilege of the chair to ask the secretary where she was about ay, and to tell us the story of that Great American who happens to be your grandfather. I had the honor and privilege of attending the premier in new york city of race. The incredible and true story of my grand father jesse owens. And i look forward to everyone going this weekend, opening weekend. Won
[inaudible] for helping with all of the organization. Not to mention [inaudible] at the back whos also been a great help. Thank you to all of you, and its been a wonderful and stimulating evening. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2, and watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Coming up next on booktv, Richard Chambers talks about his 40year career as an auditor for both business and the government, including his work with the Tennessee Valley authority, the u. S. Postal service and the u. S. Army. This is about an hour. [applause] thank you, leon, and its great to be with you all. This was my home chapter for a number of years, and im delighted to be back and to be a part of your program. This is the first audit conference that weve done with washington chapter for government auditors in a number of years. So were excited to be back and excit