Posted on 08/28/2009 8:13:33 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Algore invented the internet. Shouldn’t he decide how we use it????????????????/s
I’m STILL wondering why Hathaway resigned.
Hacking won’t do much good when the Obamastaffel marches into your ISP’s office and orders the power shut off.
The Iranian regime was the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the headline.
EVERY day I read or hear about actions being taken or proposed by this administration that are identical to those currently used in Iran.
It’s very scary.
Absolutely not! Don’t let Obama control the internet! Part of the schema, though, according to Beck and Limbaugh.
bump for later
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency...
Headline for this story is in HUGE red text on Drudge right now. Freakin' unbelievable...
This needs to be put on ‘front page’ or ‘breaking news’. Just sayin’.
Dang, beat me to it. One of my favorite episodes.
Only a kook would think that the government would use this to take freedoms away. You must all hate AMerica first! I can still watch baseball, NASCAR, and drink beer, so this is a free country. Remember to pay your taxes or you’re stealing from us all.
Ping
How exactly does one “control” a concept ?
the Internet isn’t a single system. There is no “control” of it whatsoever.
The US has control over some trunks and routes, some IP pools, but those can EASILY and I do believe by the greater good of Internic, AUTOMATICALLY bypassed should they break.
Taking control of the Internet is like taking control of sharing sugar with your neighbor.
Wolverines!
“Define: emergency & threat “
Threat: Anytime the light of truth spotlights Obama’s efforts to deconstruct America.
Emergency: That point at which his approval rating dips below 50%.
ping!
In Hitler's Germany, it was against the law to listen to a foreign broadcast. In an alliance between government and industry, they sold cheap "people's radios" to the masses which could only receive the local propaganda stations (the Volksempfanger).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/politics/23security.html
Call for White House Control of Security
New York Times, The (NY) - Thursday, April 23, 2009
Author: JOHN MARKOFF Thom Shanker contributed reporting from Washington.
There are now at least three camps involved in the decision that the president will make about control of cybersecurity, Mr. Lewis said: traditional national security policy analysts who are not focused on the cyberthreat; intelligence and military agencies that are seeking to consolidate power and influence over cyberpolicy; and an influential group that has said stricter cybersecurity regulations could damage innovative Internet industries associated with Silicon Valley.
“We didn’t expect the Googles of the world coming in and saying, this makes us nervous,” he said.
Several former government executives said they saw the early influence of the Obama administration on Ms. Hathaway ‘s speech.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=44916
Cyber -security czar quits after administration’s delays in finding successor
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
For several months, the Obama administration’s promise to make cyber -security a national priority has felt like a New Year’s resolution to start going to the gym: you really mean to start, but you just never get to it.
And as a result of that, now the country’s top cyber -security seat is going to start getting dusty. The Obama administration cyber -security czar Melissa E. Hathaway announced on Monday she will resign, apparently fed up of waiting for the president to name her successor.
“I wasn’t willing to continue to wait any longer because I’m not empowered right now to continue to drive the change,” Hathaway told The Washington Post.
Hathaway was the top aide on cyber -security under the Bush administration and was asked to remain in the post to lead a 60-day review of cyber -security policies after Obama was elected.
But Hathaway had been spinning her wheels ever since, The Wall Street Journal reported. She apparently became ostracized after suggesting regulating some private-sector entities’ networks and, well, the Bush administration’s former aide probably wasn’t the most popular girl in the new school.
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