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Tech Companies Ask U.S. to Regulate Cyber Security
qtp writes "Wired reports that a group called the National Cyber Security Partnership, which consists of 'leading software companies' including Microsoft and Computer Associates and industry organisations such as the BSA, has asked the Department of Homeland Security to regulate what they call 'Cyber Security'. Representatives from Microsoft, Computer Associates, and the BSA headed the Security Across the Software Development Cycle Task Force that submitted this report to the Bush administration today. (For all of you who dread reading 123 page reports, there is a three page summary available as well. The Washington Post, Forbes, and Other Sources are covering this story as well. I hope this is just another [late] April Fools Day joke, but I'm afraid that this looks too scary to be real."
The government loves getting more and more power. More laws mean they get to grow bigger and spend more of our tax money.
Once in place you get a real big, dumb organization that can't fire anyone and will use it's power to try to grow even bigger.
The only people whose opinions matter then are lobbyists with lot's of cash and the people that make money from things staying the way they are.
If the government starts regulating security, they will be even slower to respond than MicroSoft is.
It's very similar to the reason why medical marijuana remains illegal. There is a lot of money invested in keeping people in jail and enforcing the current drug laws. The reality is that the government would make even more money from taxes if the wacky weed were legalized. Greed can be very blinding.
The subtle irony of it all is that the Government is inherently anti-democratic.
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"Redundant," eh? :) I guess you weren't the first after all.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Maybe those are the scariest lines for a paranoid schizophrenic, or for an anarchist who would prefer to settle all disputes with guns or fists.
Normal people have a more nuanced view of the world and look for context. For example, they might be happy that a bad marriage is over and they can go on with their life, and they might be happy to receive that disaster relief check from FEMA or to have the EPA follow up on some report of pollution by a company in the area.
That, and the fact that the leaders of the two "opposing" groups are the same people.
That's a misdefinition of "racism". Only skin colour is reasonably tied to racism- relgion and culture are non-racial things that can also become objects of discrimination.
So the Nazi extermination of Ashkenazi Jews and the Roma, who are both 'white' peoples, wasn't racism?
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