Posted on 08/28/2009 1:59:01 PM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON (CBS News) ― Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
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. CBSNews.com has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773, which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
The new version allows 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.
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im in the computer security industry and this scares the heck outta me.
The silence from the DUmmies is deafening.
This could bring a HUGH ANGRY BACKLASH the likes of which Obama and company has not seen.
Well at the very least they are reporting on this so far on Fox and CBS???
I hope the ACLU is on this one, though I’m not holding my breath.
I am for giving Obozo the authority over Kenya, and nothing else.
NOTHING!
CBS??????
OK - I’m not tech savvy and get a big question mark over my head when I read this.
Why are you scared?
Yep, this is scarry.
Gee,what a surprise.Control of the Internet,a “Civilian Security Force”,takeover of private companies,the traitor Eric Holder trying to destroy our national security infrastrcuture,Ezekiel Emanuel/Peter Singer pushing eugenics under the radar in the health care bill,a return to the AWB if they can do it-none of this presages socialism or a dictatorship,right?I’m just a conspiracy theorist.I must listen to Alex Jones(I don’t)or Glenn Beck(rarely- like last night when he had David Bellavia on)so what am I?A realist.I know I’m not insane and what I’m seeing is definitely a setup to making us an anthill with the elite outside it.
This action serves to further the power of the collectivists,
so don’t expect any peeps out of them.
civil liberties groups
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Ah, yes, the groupos that put him in office...
ROFLMBO
This is ridiculous.
Zer0 could exercise about as much “authority over the Internet” as he could over the the nation’s cellphones, landlines, electrical frid, and water supplies.
Not much.
“Shutting down the Internet” (which is not even possible in the first instance) would also cause significantly more damage to everyday Americans and in fact the entire planet than any conceivable “cyberattack.”
“I’m not tech savvy and get a big question mark over my head when I read this.”
You stil understand this better than the average govt employee or Congressman.
“Why are you scared?”
Many many reasons. :)
You mean other than the totalitarian aspect of this law? The requirement that only a govt approved person can run a network?
Or the part of the govt taking over corporate networks and the corporation losing all control over data they have a responsiblity to protect.
Or the fact that most federal govt agencies rely on corporations to keep their networks secure and operating. So the ‘govt’ takes a corporate network and turns it over to their competition.
the reasons to be scared of this kind of law are endless.
On TOP of the fact its not necessary. Govt takeover is not going to make things more secure.
Ein Volk
Ein Reich
Ein Obama
““Shutting down the Internet” (which is not even possible in the first instance) “
It is possible. Most of the internet backbone goes through a very few core routers. Control those and you control the internet.
“would also cause significantly more damage to everyday Americans and in fact”
It sure would. How is this Constitutional without declaring martial law? Oh that pesky Constitution that BO hates.
If Drudge hadn’t brought the CNET article to people’s attention, I’ll bet the networks would have continued to ignore it. Once he headlined it, there wasn’t much use trying to cover it up any longer.
Kudos to Drudge, once again. He’s on a roll.
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