Very well put! -RickG On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:29 PM, jp<[email protected]> wrote: > I just read up on this and wrote to my senator Snowe, a cosponsor. > Feel free to do the same and creatively plagiarize as needed. I wrote: > > I have read that you are a cosponsor of s773 regarding cybersecurity. I > am a constituent who has consistently voted for you. My small business, > Midcoast Internet Solutions is a Internet service provider on the coast > of Maine which provides Internet infrastructure that is likely critical > to some purposes covered in the bill. > > I applaud the idea of the US government improving it's cybersecurity, > having a vision for cyber security, mapping critical infrastructure, > securing DNS, and improving it's defenses and understanding of the task. > > I can not back a bill supporting some of the goals of section 18, which > include shutting down non-government networks. I do not favor this > intrusion into business or Internet operations. Furthermore, there is a > good possibility that shutting down a network will not stop the > potential problem due to redundant paths and routing systems that > companies like mine use to prevent being affected by upstream outages or > for performance reasons. > > Also, the identity management and national licensing for network > providers is also unacceptable. Knowing who provides network security > service for the federal government is fine, but needing those licensing > and/or identity qualifications for the networks is going too far and > does not sensibly correlate with business, Internet, and government > standards for secure network use. > > When someone uses a network like the Internet for secure purposes (such > as a normal credit card payment or something super classified) security > software/equipment at each end of the transaction encrypts the data in a > way that can be only decrypted at the other end. This is done so that it > can safely pass through ANY network without regard to the security > practices of the network paths it takes. This is not something special. > Regular people, businesses, and government organizations utilize systems > like this for theoretically all private communications between sites if > it involves the Internet. Thus imposing national licensing and/or > identity management on network operators would serve no practical > purpose, hurt small businesses, decrease the available workforce for > this growing industry, and create a barrier of entry to new businesses > to provide network infrastructure. > > > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:47:14PM -0500, St. Louis Broadband wrote: >> "The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity >> emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's >> necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a >> federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a >> requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector >> be managed by people who have been awarded that license." >> >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html >> >> >> Victoria Proffer >> www.StLouisBroadband.com >> 314-974-5600 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -- > /* > Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL > KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting > http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.com/ > */ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >
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