Congress adds contested cybersecurity measures to 'must-pass' spending bill
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/16/congress-cybersecurity-information-sharing-cisa-spending-bill The information-sharing program has been criticized as both inferior to the programs run by private industry and needlessly invasive - Lauren Weinstein, who has worked on network security since the dawn of the internet, said that the language would create a gigantic and vulnerable trove of information that likely would not ultimately make Americans any safer. "We have the obvious case of Snowden marching out of the NSA with a thumb drive," Weinstein said. "That suggests that there is not a culture of security and privacy established in the government yet. You have to have that before you even consider sharing the amounts of data this would cover, and that's apart from the question of whether the information would be abused in the context of the legislation as written." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so. My opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
