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http://www.tribstar.com/opinion/local_story_201220549.html 

By Stephanie Salter
The Tribune-Star
July 19, 2008

TERRE HAUTE =E2=80=94 Purdue computer science professor Eugene Spafford had the 
best line about media coverage of Barack Obama=E2=80=99s extensive national 
security seminar in West Lafayette last week:

=E2=80=9CGood thing Angelina Jolie gave birth earlier in the week or the summit 
wouldn=E2=80=99t have even made the press.=E2=80=9D

=E2=80=9CSpaf,=E2=80=9D as he is known by his students, colleagues, associates and 
fellow experts in international cyber security, is always good for a 
humorous, big-picture observation that lasers in on the truth.

As director of Purdue=E2=80=99s CERIAS program =E2=80=94 the Center for Education and 
Research in Information Assurance and Security =E2=80=94 he has served on 
numerous national research teams, testified before Congress and advised 
presidents. His name is synonymous around the world with cyber security.

Who better to summon to the invitation-only Obama security summit at 
Purdue. Ah, but no one thought to invite Spaf until the night before.

=E2=80=9CThe press was told that Purdue was chosen because of the leading role 
our researchers have in various areas of public safety and national 
security =E2=80=94 including the leading program in cyber security =E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D Spaf wrote 
on his long blog entry about the summit (http://snipurl.com/obpugs). =E2=80=9CI 
found it rather ironic that security would be given as the reason =E2=80=A6 and 
yet those of us most involved with those security centers had not been 
told about the summit or given invitations.=E2=80=9D

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