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."'"

Comments

Uh, no, you can't have my network

[WCMI92]

First off it's private property, and private property rights are covered in the Constitution.

Obama can have my root passwords only from my cold, dead, brain.

Re:Uh, no, you can't have my network

[mcgrew]

Obama can have my root passwords only from my cold, dead, brain.

Yeah, I need more coffee this morning, too.

Re:Uh, no, you can't have my network

[couchslug]

"You're not factoring in the irrational hate some people have for Obama."

Not to mention the _rational_ hate some people have for Obama.

Re:i'm sick of the fallacy of the slippery slope

[HopefulIntern]

Karl Rove? Is that you? You don't work there anymore!

Bill?

[RivenAleem]

Who is Bill, and how can he give this kind of power to the Feds?

cool linux installed for free

[Anonymous Coward]

so... during cyber attack all US citizens will be forced to format their windows malware laden hard drives and install Linux and gun point, this is a great idea!

Bill Gates Feds

[dimethylxanthine]

There, fixed it for you.