Japan cyber security minister admits he has never used a computer

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For mail he uses this:

[Juanitology]

6 hours ago, Shally said:

Yeah this is crazy shit. Why even admit that?

The Japanese are honest to a fault. 

[peanuts104]

9 hours ago, ScratchCat said:

This shouldn't even be a question. No such facilities should ever use removable media, ideally logging and configuration changes should be the only state changes.

To play devil's advocate, if he doesn't know anything about computers, and he is the talking head to the media, theoretically he wouldn't be able to reveal sensitive technical information like that.  Being confused by the question means that a potential bad actor does not get a yes or no answer.

[Princess Luna]

He doesn't really need to, he just needs to know the right people to put to work in the ministery for what is worth it

[ZcanKal]

I thought the first thing they give to Japanese citizens was a Gameboy and a bowl of Ramen?
(I am sorry.)

[Drak3]

17 minutes ago, ZcanKal said:

I thought the first thing they give to Japanese citizens was a Gameboy and a bowl of Ramen?
(I am sorry.)

He's too old for that. He got a Katana and Miso soup.

[mr moose]

Many politicians don't know shit about their portfolios.  that's why they have committees and inquiries and consultants. 

 

And to be honest, a specialist ion any field would make for a bad politician just the same way politicians make for bad specialists.

[yian88]

  this made my day the most hilarious negative news ive heard in quite a while.

 

[JuNex03]

13 hours ago, David Anderson said:

I think in his life, he touched a computer but he didn't use it

I don't know, if it was me touching a Japanese computer, I'll be sure as hell be using it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

 

for those who don't know, these are persocom from an anime titled "Chobits"

[NumLock21]

He may not know how to operate a computer, but i'm sure he knows how to operate a abacus.

[JuNex03]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

He may not know how to operate a computer, but i'm sure he knows how to operate a abacus.

Yeah, we know an average Japanese using an abacus would be magnitudes faster than a human in peak condition operating a computer.

[Fnige]

9 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

if there's numeric locks on his safes everywhere I'd bet it's set to someone's birthday, LOL (go ask Richard Feynman)

Jokes on you, I had a password lock set to DRAM

 

i guess im a tech nerd then...

[NumLock21]

18 minutes ago, JuNex03 said:

I don't know, if it was me touching a Japanese computer, I'll be sure as hell be using it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

 

for those who don't know, these are persocom from an anime titled "Chobits"

I have the manga version of that. Some parts are really nsfw. While some thinks a pervert created this, but the fact is, it's created by Clamp. A all female manga studio.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_(manga_artists)

[JuNex03]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

I have the manga version of that. Some parts are really nsfw. While some thinks a pervert created this, but the fact is, it's created by Clamp. A all female manga studio.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_(manga_artists)

I miss some Clamp shows.

 

one of the nsfw scene I remember was when the guy was looking for the power button. Imagine if it were us going through all that to *ehem* turn on a computer

[Andreas Lilja]

Does he know how to operate a smartphone? I believe the Japanese are PC averse.

 

Game prices over there are ridiculous, don't know whether it changed.

[ScratchCat]

11 hours ago, peanuts104 said:

To play devil's advocate, if he doesn't know anything about computers, and he is the talking head to the media, theoretically he wouldn't be able to reveal sensitive technical information like that.  Being confused by the question means that a potential bad actor does not get a yes or no answer.

I do see your point but in the country which had a nuclear disaster 7 years ago you don't instill confidence in the public by not knowing if the rest of the nuclear facilities could be exploited using removable media.

 

11 hours ago, JuNex03 said:

Yeah, we know an average Japanese using an abacus would be magnitudes faster than a human in peak condition operating a computer.

At least an abacus can't be bricked by certain *cough* untested *cough* updates

[Linus_torvalds]

That's actually smart! If you do not use PC you are 12124x times more secure then who uses it. Thing is you can't hack my papers which are at home in my security safe

 

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/mobile-hacking-exploits.html

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities.html

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/microsoft-patch-tuesday-updates.html

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/facebook-vulnerability-hack.html

 

[asus killer]

you'd be amazed how common this is all over the world, ministers are chosen by their party affiliation and friendship to the leader. This happens in my country and happens in the US (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/politics/rick-perry-energy-secretary-donald-trump.html), almost everywhere.

 

this is his exact quote:

“I don’t use computers because since I was 25 I have been in a position of authority where secretaries and employees handle such tasks for me.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/dont-use-computers-says-japans-minister-charge-cybersecurity/

[DeScruff]

This reminds me how I once heard that a lot of Japanese households don't have a computer (apparently only ~50%)... Looking it up: According to a 2015 study by the Japanese Cabinet Office, only 30% of Japanese high schoolers use laptops, and only 16% use desktop computers. (Compare that to 98% of US Highschoolers)

Computers over there are mostly viewed as business machines. (Which would explain why PC gaming over there never took off and has always been a niche thing) and I recall it isn't unusual for the older generation to just not use computers...

[mr moose]

19 hours ago, asus killer said:

you'd be amazed how common this is all over the world, ministers are chosen by their party affiliation and friendship to the leader. This happens in my country and happens in the US (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/us/politics/rick-perry-energy-secretary-donald-trump.html), almost everywhere.

 

this is his exact quote:

“I don’t use computers because since I was 25 I have been in a position of authority where secretaries and employees handle such tasks for me.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/15/national/politics-diplomacy/dont-use-computers-says-japans-minister-charge-cybersecurity/

No, I refuse to accept there is a logic to such a claim and that it is reasonable, I want to have a stupid naive shit dig at politicians because I have a preconception about their relevance. 

[Castdeath97]

On 11/15/2018 at 10:51 AM, huilun02 said:

This is an example of the situation in many Japanese organisations. Their leadership being full of old Japanese men often too uptight to let go of their old ways and being overprotective of their existing mode of business. The structure being strictly heirarchical with younger members at the bottom having no power to question their superiors or initiate change.

 

This is why we have companies like Konami and Nintendo behaving in a ways that are hostile or out of touch with their audience. Japanese companies led by old men and struggling to do much more than making the same thing over and over again.

*COUGH* *COUGH* Japanese Car Makers *COUGH* *COUGH*