President Urges Congress to Pass Bipartisan Cybersecurity Legislation

By and | January 14, 2015

  • January 14, 2015 at 12:05 pm
    ExciteBiker says:
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    This is the 2nd front-page article on IJ today about CISPA, this time from the President rather than a former NSA director.

    Notice the “solution” is for public and private companies & individuals to give their data to the DHS, the NSA, law enforcement etc.

    Even assuming the information shared would be properly limited & anonymized and that proper oversight would be in place– which we should 100% assume it won’t, given what we already know about the current secret surveillance programs–what private company in their right mind would ever support a bill that requires the company to give the NSA access to specific technical information about its potential network vulnerabilities?

    This is, after all, the same NSA organization that would surely take such information and use it to further their surveillance capabilities. It is the same organization demanding companies create backdoors in their operating systems and encryption programs and the same organization working to undermine entire encryption methods–something which absolutely makes everyone more vulnerable to hacks and losses. Naturally, whenever you create a master key or enable backdoor access to information that is supposed to be secured/encrypted, you are by default creating a mechanism which criminals and hostile organizations can (and will) use to gain access to protected systems & information.

    CISPA and similar legislation is all about expanding government surveillance capabilities in an era when the public is demanding that these powers be rolled back.

  • January 14, 2015 at 1:22 pm
    Ben Dover says:
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    More government intervention into an area that they should not be involved in. They can’t secure their own networks and they are worried about the private sector? Are they next going to demand that companies prove that their dumpsters are locked? The government is becoming the criminal more and more these days.

  • January 14, 2015 at 1:22 pm
    Libby says:
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    I haven’t read the bill, but the article seems to suggest it only gives private companies immunity for sharing information, not requiring them to share information. Do you know what the actual bill says?

  • January 14, 2015 at 2:02 pm
    Crain says:
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    Are you proposing that the government do nothing and allow these attacks to continue until the private sector pays to fix it themselves? What if the legislation allowed companies to share the information directly without the government by giving them immunity to anti-trust prosecution? Are you in favor of that? I am just asking what you propose for what is a very serious problem. We are under attack and you sound like you just want us to stand and take it.

  • January 14, 2015 at 2:37 pm
    TX Agent says:
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    It’s a matter of Trust. Who Trust’s Obama at this point??? Democratics don’t!!!

    • January 14, 2015 at 2:55 pm
      Agent says:
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      TX, what has the Obama Administration done in the past 6+ years to inspire trust with business or individual citizens? I have looked hard and have found them to be wanting in every domestic and foreign policy area. They can’t even build a website that works so why should they be trusted in the Cyber Warfare arena.

      • January 19, 2015 at 9:50 am
        Ron says:
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        TX Agent and Agent,

        Do you trust the Republicans that are now in charge of Congress? They will be the ones who write and pass the bill, not president Obama. If they do it properly, then there should not be any problem.

        • January 22, 2015 at 4:13 pm
          Rosenblatt says:
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          Excellent point!



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