New Cyber Security Bills Open Door To Gov't, Corporate Abuse 93
Gunkerty Jeb writes with a selection from Threatpost about upcoming legislation to watch out for: "EFF looked at two bills making their way through Congress: The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (S. 2105), sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) of Connecticut and the Secure IT Act (S. 2151), sponsored by Senator John McCain (R-AZ). The digital rights group claims that the quality of both bills ranges from 'downright terrible' to 'appropriately intentioned.' Each, however, is conceptually similar and flawed, EFF said."
Re:Is Congress mad at Slashdot/The Web? (Score:5, Informative)
ObamaRomney's Top Donators:. They are just paying back the media companies to say "thank you". Oh and "Here's your copyright law to protect your old-fashioned cable or media business."
A bunch of banks plus:
University of California $1,648,685
Harvard University $878,164
Microsoft Corp $852,167
Google Inc $814,540
---> Time Warner $624,618
Sidley Austin LLP $600,298
Stanford University $595,716
---> National Amusements Inc $563,798
WilmerHale LLP $550,668
Columbia University $547,852
--> Skadden, Arps et al $543,539
UBS AG $532,674
IBM Corp $532,372
---> General Electric $529,855
US Government $513,308
Morgan Stanley $512,232
Latham & Watkins $503,295
If this list was longer we'd probably see donations from Verizon, Comcast, Sony, MGM, RIAA, and MPAA.
Re:An old prophecy comes true (Score:5, Informative)
>>>what I do worry about is the total lack of CARING on the part of the young people, today.
That's what I used to think until I started visiting the Ron Paul page and talking to them (almost all 39 and younger). They are not going to let go of "their" internet. They consider it their property and their voice, and the way to fight back against the Corporate-owned NBC, FOX, CNN channels.
Re:Explain which Provisions (Score:4, Informative)
Try these excerpts from the article:
"In an e-mail conversation with Threatpost, Auerbach of EFF characterized the bills as âoealarming.â Of particular concern: a section in both the Lieberman bill and the McCain bills that authorizes monitoring by private firms of any traffic that transits their networks. Ostensibly intended to facilitate private-public information sharing, the passage would grant complete private sector immunity for data monitoring and sharing practices. Private entities would be unbound from the Wiretap Act and other legal limits and immunized against a swath of questionable monitoring practices, EFF claims.
Furthermore, Auerbach and Tien worry that the bills' definition of a "cyber security threat" is too broad, and could cover everything from stealing passwords from a secure government server to scanning a network for software vulnerabilities. Similarly, the bills calls for more ISP traffic analysis and monitoring could bring about more civil liberties violations. For example, ISPs could simply block Tor, cryptographic protocols, or traffic on certain ports under the guise of defensive countermeasures, the EFF speculated."
So given our new over-reaching governments, it's not hard to see how those kinds of measures then later get warped out of control even more than they already are.