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ByDarleneSuperville and Martha Mendoza TheAssociatedPress PALO ALTO Cyberspace is the new "Wild West," Pres- ident Barack Obama said Friday, with everyone look- ing to the government to be the sheriff. But he told the private sector it must do more to stop cyber attacks aimed at the U.S. every day. "Everybody is online, and everybody is vulnera- ble," Obama said during a White House cybersecurity summit at Stanford Univer- sity, just miles from Google, Facebook, Intel and other internet giants. "The business leaders here want their privacy and their children protected, just like the consumer and privacy advocates here want America to keep lead- ing the world in technology and be safe from attacks," he said. Partnering with the fed- eral government is a hard sell in the Silicon Valley. The pace of innovation in California's tech hub out- strips Beltway bureaucracy, and tech firms chafe at reg- ulations that could limit their reach. Further, disclosures from former intelligence contrac- tor Edward Snowden ex- posing sweeping U.S. gov- ernment surveillance pro- grams have angered many. The programs tapped into data from firms including Google and Yahoo. "There's a drastic col- lective disconnect that I think the administration is working hard to bridge," said Amy Zegart, co-direc- tor of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, who met with Obama before his speech. Obama told more than 1,500 business leaders, stu- dents, professors and re- porters that information about threats must be shared and responded to quickly. And he signed an executive order aimed at making it easier for private firms to have access to clas- sified information about cy- ber attacks. He also stressed there would be oversight to en- sure protections for privacy and civil liberties. The administration wants Congress to replace the existing patchwork of state laws with a national standard giving companies 30 days to notify consum- ers if their personal infor- mation has been compro- mised. "The new proposals face significant headwinds, both legislatively from Congress and cooperatively from heavyweights in the tech sector," said Ben Desjar- dins, director of security solutions at cybersecurity firm Radware. "Based on the Snowden leaks, these companies believe they've already been badly burned by the government, and have very little to gain by publicly backing the presi- dent's proposals." Scott Algeier, executive director of the nonprofit Information Sharing and Analysis Center, has been working from the private- sector side to get the gov- ernment to share informa- tion. He said the new execu- tive order seems more like a federal takeover of private- sector information sharing. "There's a lot of talk to- day about 'public-private partnerships.' But there isn't a partnership here," he said. Nonetheless, there was agreement at the daylong summit among White House officials and lead- ers from a broad business sector — including utilities, health care, insurance and finance — that the threat is getting worse, and no single institution can take it on. "Right now there are peo- ple trying to hack into all our companies, and one of those idiots might succeed. That's the fearful part," said MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga. Numerous companies, ranging from mass retail- ers like Target and Home Depot to Sony Pictures En- tertainment and health in- surer Anthem, have suf- fered costly and embarrass- ing data breaches in recent months. The Twitter feed of U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the volatile Middle East, was hacked as well, while the White House detected "activity of concern" in October on its unclassified computer net- work used by White House staffers. TECH AND SECURITY SUMMIT Ob am a ca ll s on S il ic on V al le y to help thwart cyber attacks EVANVUCCI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS President Barack Obama meets with business leaders at a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection on Friday at Stanford University in Palo Alto. From le are, Obama, Stanford University President John Hennessy, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. By Justin Pritchard The Associated Press LOS ANGELES Seaports from Southern California to Seattle reopened as negotia- tors labored to resolve a crip- pling contract dispute and let cargo flow freely across the West Coast waterfront. Friday was a reprieve for international trade — a nor- mal workday with normal crews. None of the massive ships crammed with products from Asia were loaded or unloaded Thursday at the 29 ports — and none will be handled on Saturday through Monday. Employers are locking out most dockworkers, saying they have slowed work as a bargaining tac- tic. Wages are higher on weekends and Presidents Day, and operators of ma- rine terminals don't want to pay the premium. Talks on a new contract stalled in recent weeks, all but paralyzing 29 ports that handle about one-quarter of U.S. international trade. Friday's negotiations pro- duced no breakthrough. LABOR DISPUTE Coast seaports reopen for day; no contract breakthrough RICH PEDRONCELLI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Direction signs to various ski li s at the Donner Ski Ranch near Norden are posted. Patches of dirt and rock are seen on mountains in the background that are normally covered in snow this time of the year. By Scott Smith The Associated Press FRESNO With California entering its fourth drought year, even some big resorts with millions of dollars in modern snow-making equipment don't have all their lifts running. The midsized and fam- ily-owned resorts strug- gling most had hoped to reopen for the Presidents Day holiday, traditionally the year's biggest week- end for skiing. A recent winter storm that washed over the state originated in the tropics and dropped more rain than the much-needed snow. While any wet weather is welcome in Cal- ifornia, the storm didn't end the drought or put all the dormant resorts back in business. "We're basically the ca- nary in the coal mine," said Janet Tuttle, who owns Donner Ski Ranch northwest of Lake Tahoe and one of about seven re- sorts forced to close mid- season. "It's kind of a sad state here in California." A stingy snowfall had left Donner's mountain face marked with brown patches of exposed dirt and rock. Tuttle and her husband, Marshall, closed the resort's six chairlifts and two beginner runs by mid-January. They re- opened Wednesday with a little boost from the recent storm, hoping to keep the lifts running this weekend. She worried about more warm weather in the fore- cast. "I'm not very happy about that," she said. California's 27 resorts — and two in neighboring Ne- vada—makeupthenation's second-most-popular desti- nation for skiers and snow- boarders after Colorado, said Bob Roberts, executive directoroftheCaliforniaSki Industry Association. China Peak Mountain Resort east of Fresno was among the latest ski areas forced to suspend busi- ness, following others in Northern California such as Donner Ski Ranch, Dodge Ridge and Yosem- ite's Badger Pass. Mt. Baldy Ski Lifts near Los Angeles also closed. Homewood Mountain Resort at Lake Tahoe sus- pended skiing early this month but also plans to open for the Presidents Day weekend with a few inches of fresh snow from recent storms. Ski season started strong with heavy snow- fall in December blanket- ing California's mountains. Resorts opened before Christmas, earlier than the previous year, with raised hopes that more snow would follow. But January set records as the driest and the sec- ond warmest in recorded history, said Michael An- derson, a climatologist with the state's Department of Water Resources. The Si- erra Nevada this January received 2 percent of its normal precipitation, with an average high tempera- ture of 53 degrees, he said. In an unsettling trend, four of California's 10 dri- est Januaries have oc- curred since 2007, said Anderson, adding that several days recently at Lake Tahoe have reached the mid-60s. He spent last weekend with his family in the Sierra's Donner Sum- mit, where it rained. "When it's raining at the top of the mountain, it's awful hard to build a snowpack," he said. Other Western states have gotten their share of snow this year, said Michael Berry, president of the Na- tional Ski Areas Associa- tion, noting favorable ski- ing in Colorado, Utah, Wy- oming and Montana. He said storms have hit Wash- ington, but the warm tem- peratures pushed the snow level to higher elevations. Meanwhile, much of California remains locked in extreme drought. Tim Cohee, owner of China Peak Mountain Re- sort, thought he could keep the lifts running through Presidents Day weekend. But Cohee said that only the beginner skiing hill and a slope for sleds and inner-tubes would be open for the holiday. Cohee said China Peak and other small resorts are facing serious finan- cial hardship. "Name a business that could go through four years of this," said Cohee, who has owned and man- aged ski resorts in Califor- nia for 22 years. "I've seen a couple wimpy years be- fore, but nothing like this — nothing even close." 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