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Bill Gives Feds "Emergency" Powers To Secure Civilian Nets
ziani writes "Joe Lieberman wants to give the federal government the power to take over civilian networks' security if there's an 'imminent cyber threat.' From the article: 'Lieberman and Collins' solution is one of the more far-reaching proposals. In the Senators' draft bill, "the President may issue a declaration of an imminent cyber threat to covered critical infrastructure." Once such a declaration is made, the director of a DHS National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications is supposed to "develop and coordinate emergency measures or actions necessary to preserve the reliable operation, and mitigate or remediate the consequences of the potential disruption, of covered critical infrastructure."'"
sounds like islam to me.
[quote] You forgot one thing: there's always an "imminent cyberattack", for the same reasons we still have spam.
Basically this gives the president the power to declare computing martial law whenever he feels like it. [/quote]
Anyone who doesn't see this as a HUGE potential for abuse and carte blanche to go after POLITICAL opponents is either incredibly naive or a "mainstream" journalist. Of course, if a Republican proposed this the "mainstream" media would be accusing the President of trying to be Adolph Hitler.
Remember when the Democrat party opposed the PATRIOT Act? Well, they've had Congress since 2006, and have had the Presidency for almost 2 years now, what have they done to repeal it? Did they oppose it on principle, or did they oppose it only because they were out of power and thus unable to USE it?
Corporatism != Free Market
I love it. The Slashdot tradition of "mention Obama in a negative context is a troll" continues. Political disagreement is not trolling.
Put the Obama Kool-Aid down and step away!
I remember all the Bush bashing here over the PATRIOT Act. In which I joined in on, I always have opposed that law.
Corporatism != Free Market