US To Release International Cyber Strategy Today 64
vivIsel writes "Today, the Obama Administration will be releasing its first-ever strategy for 'international cooperation in cyberspace.' Following on Friday's release of the White House domestic cybersecurity proposal, this strategy document will govern how the US behaves on the international stage — including around big issues like internet governance and internet freedom. The strategy's unveiling, which will be keynoted by Hillary Clinton with remarks by Secretaries Holder, Locke and Napolitano, will be streamed live on whitehouse.gov starting at 3:00PM EDT today."
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The US strategy will be:
1) Look for copyright infringement (or poker, maybe even porn)
2) Seize domains
3) Profit
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I feel so guilty
I was away from Pokerstars for a few years, and earlier this year I used it to make a little extra cash. I cashed out some money, and a few days later wham!
When people ask me why I am a Libertarian, I tell them that all I want to do is play poker online and maybe not wear my seatbelt at certain times if I don't want to. Seriously, is that too much to ask?
Let me guess (Score:5, Insightful)
It will include yet even more revenue, and assume yet even more power over the people, all the while making the business of government more lucrative for those at the top of the pyramid.
I can't put my finger on it, but this all seems very, very familiar, as if this cyclical expansion of government has been repeating for 200 years.
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It will include yet even more revenue, and assume yet even more power over the people, all the while making the business of government more lucrative for those at the top of the pyramid.
I can't put my finger on it, but this all seems very, very familiar, as if this cyclical expansion of government has been repeating for 200 years.
Of course, you can't just have a free and open internet, anywhere in the world. You get upstarts like WikiLeaks and DemocracyNow that tell people things they should not know.
This does not please the corporate Overlords. Look for the complete reversal of net neutrality over the next few years.
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I can't put my finger on it, but this all seems very, very familiar, as if this cyclical expansion of government has been repeating for 200 years.
I think it's more like repeating as long as humanity has existed.
The Collapse of Complex Societies... (Score:2, Redundant)
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization#Fall_of_civilizations [wikipedia.org]
"Joseph Tainter in "The Collapse of Complex Societies" suggested that there were diminishing returns to complexity, due to which, as states achieved a maximum permissible complexity, they would decline when further increases actually produced a negative return. Tainter suggested that Rome achieved this figure in the 2nd Century AD."
The suggestion is that civilizations tend to refuse to accept going down any path to a more sensible solution
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Yeah, because the (D) can do no wrong, and the (R) can do no right. Here's a summary of counter points ...
1) Grandma's plug is being decided Obamacare Death Panels due to lack of unlimited government funding to keep 85 year olds alive.
2) Poor don't pay taxes, therefore all tax cuts come from the "rich".Can't give tax breaks to those who don't pay any.
3) And the Government makes 10 times what Big Oil does, off Big Oil. And I suggest you don't drive your car ever again. Ride your bike, in the snow, uphill bot
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>>>There never were any death panels in the healthcare reform package, even Fox news has admitted to the fabrication.
Actually there are death panels (just set-up two months ago) but of course they are not called that. They are "life advisement panels". Kinda like how the Libyan War is not a war, but "ballistic peacekeeping" (or something like that). These panels advise people they should accept 80 years as long enough, voluntarily pull the plug, and save the government money.
"There will necessar
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This seems slightly different than the commercial death panels that stop the checks and advise you to prove it wasn't pre-existing, and save themselves money.
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Yes, how dare he not provide footnotes. After all, you provided citations and references for each of your carefully-researched, exhaustively studied counterpoints, relying on hard facts and numbers, rather than appeals to emotion and "common sense" that you no doubt picked up from some politicians' talking points.
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Re:Summary (Score:4, Insightful)
"1. Pull the plug on Grandma, as per Republican Budget plans
2. Tax cuts for the rich paid for by pulling the plug on medical care for the poor
3. Transfer of American natural resources to oil companies, who will sell us back these resources at a 500% markup
4. Vote for the same Republicans that just ruined the country
5. Lose the Senate in 2012 (enables moneygrab/poormurder)
6. Censor the internet on behalf of the MAFIAA"
You seem to be buying the stagecraft. The Democrats are just playing Dean Martin to the Republican's Jerry Lewis. There has to be a remotely credible opposition to facilitate the transition to oligarchy without the frog jumping out of the pot. As long as a significant portion of the populace thinks the Democrats present a realistic threat to corporate integration into government, Democrats (and Republicans) will keep getting elected, and keep approving corporatist handovers like the health care package.
People need to believe there is a balance struck by opposing forces, so they imagine that Democrats and Republicans are not on the same side. The CItizens United ruling (and most critically its affirmation of the utterly antithetical-to-American-democracy concept of corporate person-hood) put a bullet in the head of that dying notion.
I completely understand, and agree, that there is at the moment no more credible opposition to the oligarchy than the Democrats. But that is only because it is a two-man show and their role is meant to be less obviously hostile to We The People, not because they are dancing to a different piper's tune.
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The incredible thing is, that the british electorate just gave away the chance to end the corrupt two party system. They rejected the voting law reform which would have led to more coalition governments that are usual in most north & central european democracies.
More party systems give more parties and new parties a realistic chance of getting to power and thus are a very good balance against the corruption of power.
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6. [Democrats] will censor the internet on behalf of the MAFIAA
Fixed that for you.
I noticed your negativeity was directed toward the R's, but both D's and R's are basically the same. They are simply two branches of the same big government party. Both have pledged to sell-out the citizens to the money-holders (i.e. the corporations). Both have proven themselves to be warmongers, power-hungry, and untrustworthy.
IMHO
Remember COICA came from *this* administration. The copyright czar came from *this* adminis
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Would it be more humble if he were to pick a side and defend the position with extremism like the majority of the vocal do?
Anyhow IANAD but you might want to get that raw nerve looked at.
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1. Pull the plug on Grandma, as per Republican Budget plans
But it was fine when the Dems were going to do it with health care reforms I suppose. But those evil Republicans are just horrible for doing it now. In the end, "we the people" are the ones that are going to be screwed by people with both D and R after their name.
2. Tax cuts for the rich paid for by pulling the plug on medical care for the poor
It's a good thing we have other altruistic parties that want to give ponies to everyone.
3. Transfer of American natural resources to oil companies, who will sell us back these resources at a 500% markup
It's probably even more than that, but to be fair Amazon stopped selling that do-it-yourself oil refinery kit.
4. Vote for the same Republicans that just ruined the country
And the Democrats that did before that, and the Re
US document... (Score:5, Insightful)
Let me summarize: "We'll use a bunch of flowery language like "freedom" and "democratic," but in the end, we'll do WTF we want, while you'll bend over and like it."
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I'm sure your god appreciates that kind of language as much as your mom does
no brainer (Score:2)
1. "violate the common sense rights of everyone we can find a legal loophole for or write a new law to allow"
2. "also do anything else we think we can get away with"
This is very serious business! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Our campaign contributors and special interest lobbies^Wintelligence agencies have indicated that pirates^Wterrorists are causing massive profit losses to our chief campaign supporters^Winfringements on our patriotic American freedoms, so therefore we decided we now have the power to confiscate any domain name for any reason without due process. GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Fixed that for you.
Useless (Score:2)
And the |-|4c|3r$ will be right there reading the strategy and figuring out more ways to exploit the net and make money or engage in other activities (terrorism, etc.). This sounds like a useless document.
Should've waited until after the release (Score:2)
That way we wouldn't have to see this story twice, and all the foolish speculation that's filling this submission.
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It's just that all those things are now so obvious, we don't need to waste any more disk space yakking about it anymore. How often do we have to keep repeating ourselves when nobody cares, or just gets shouted down? You can pull up ten year old submissions, and the comments are word for word identical to today's. What is needed is more discussion and implementation of workable countermeasures, technical and otherwise.. Maybe then we can leave the fascists crying in their soup.. and we can carry on our norma
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But we are Slashdot! We are strong! We are invincible! [youtube.com] We can protect ourselves at least... Let the others sink in the quicksand if that's what they want.
Hang on a minute... (Score:2)
"US To Release International Cyber Strategy" - don't people get busted for releasing US strategies? Isn't that what all the fuss about Wikipedia is for?
So now they're just saving the leakers some (jail?) time, or does this mean something else?
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I know, duh, but I'd already pressed "submit" and the stop button didn't work in time... normally my latency sucks, but when I need high latency, well, Murphy's Law and all that...
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The wikileaks "fuss" was about somebody releasing classified information to the public, and has nothing to do with whether "strategic" or "tactical" information was leaked. The information is classified, therefore it is illegal to release - whether or not it's considered "strategic" or "tactical" is irrelevant.
Strategy is regularly and openly discussed by many people, and I don't think you'd have much difficulty finding people discussing the US strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan all over the media - they use
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1) It is absolutely illegal for Bradley Manning to have improperly handled (and released) classified information, as he is alleged to have done. This is what I was referring to when I mentioned a relese of classified information.
2) It is not always legal for the press to publish leaked information, though admittedly the bar is high, and the government must show a significant likelihood of danger to troops or plans in order to suppress publication. This is further compounded by the fact that Wikileaks is
Live Streaming (Score:3)
Whatever the politics are, I'm glad that things like this are being streamed over the Internet. I wish that there was more streaming (like a 24/7 stream of the floor of the House and Senate), hopefully that will happen in the future.
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C-SPAN offers 3 streams: http://cspan.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/ [cspan.org]
Whitehouse.gov has a live channel, mostly presidential events (tis the season): http://www.whitehouse.gov/live [whitehouse.gov]
CNN also offers live streams: http://live.cnn.com/ [cnn.com]
The full range of corporate, I mean, US interests (Score:2)
The 'full range of US interests' include, but are not limited to, a two-tiered internet, painfully slow transfer speeds, and uncontrolled spying and invasions of privacy.
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And, make sure that the US is allowed to do things which if "certain governments" tried to do, the US government would talk about how those governments are suppressing freedom and democracy. (Syria, Iran, China for instance)
I really do fully expect to see a bit of a blatant double standard as the US proclaims they need to be able to do thi
Early release of cyberstrategy... (Score:2)
Buy all brand name products and OS's, plug ears, wear rose colored glasses and pray... Lighting hair on fire and running around option required.
Prosperity, Security, and Openness (in that order) (Score:5, Insightful)
From the Article: 'It said the document outlines the US agenda "for partnering with other nations and peoples to ensure the prosperity, security, and openness that we seek in our increasingly networked world."'
Let's see: Prosperity, Security, and Openness.
Let me guess -- in that order, right?
Here's how it plays out:
"What's first on the agenda today, gentlemen?"
"Prosperity"
"All-right, I asked around, and all the lobbyists in my outer office agree on how to maximize prosperity. We should give total control of popular content to the MAFIAA and the Cable and Telcos. Next?"
"Security"
"Right; absolute authority to shut down anyone, anywhere, anytime, for any reason, without having to document anything goes to National Cyber Command. Next?"
"Oppenness"
"Perfect -- nations we don't like, and which are small enough that we can kick their ass, have to allow their people to speak freely on the Internet."
"Awesome, I think we're done. Who's up for a round of golf?"
"Now hang on, there -- we have to make this look like it was a challenging struggle between opposing voices interested only in the best principles of American democracy."
"Right, let's get a couple of the spin doctors to rewrite the health-care debate script. Most of the public bought that."
"Hahaha, that's awesome. Make it so."
If you don't understand it -- make it illegal! (Score:2)
This is the beginning of the middle of its long slow death by a thousand cuts.
The backing track (Score:2)