This one's just as nuts... from e-week...:
Proposed legislation would put authority over the security of government and
private networks in the hands of officials reporting to the President.
President Obama promised in his campaign to take cybersecurity seriously and
he appears to be following up on that promise. Legislation just introduced
in the Senate, written with White House input according to the Washington
Post, would federalize the business of computer security. It would give
White House officials the power to shut off private networks, decide what
products could be used for security and set rules for who could practice
computer security.
The legislation is actually in two bills, S.773 and S.778. The titles of the
bills are:
S.773A bill to ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the
United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber
communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of
the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for
the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve
and maintain effective cybersecurity defenses against disruption, and for
other purposes.
and
S.778A bill to establish, within the Executive Office of the President,
the Office of National Cybersecurity Advisor.
I couldn't find the actual text of the legislation yet, but there is a short
PDF describing it in press release language. Of course such documents are no
substitute for examining the actual text.
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Now, what exactly it means is unclear, but to federalize computer security
is just one more means of demanding a backdoor into your network, computers,
and systems by and to the feds.
Clinton wanted it, and people got up in arms. This has gotten zero press.
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