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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."'"
Kill the internet before independent media exposes the banking cartels for the criminals that they are.
If this passes, it's time to quit using commercially produced routers and firewalls and to start making our own with OS's such as Linux, which isn't actually hard to do.
I'd imagine that there will be regulations requiring "Obama backdoors" in commercial security products to "facilitate" government control of networks "in case of emergency". Which will make those products insecure by design.
Corporatism != Free Market
It depicts LIEberman enlisting the aid of the unprivileged, in burying the dead remains of Liberty.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
There is no reason to hate the man.
There is if you are a civil libertarian. Our "Constitutional Law Professor" has proven himself no better than his predecessors in this department.
In my opinion, most people who hate Obama just can't stand the idea of people getting something for nothing (and in their minds, the people getting something for nothing are almost always a shade of brown).
Yes, that must be it. Most people who hate Obama are racists.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Yeah, those stupid rich people, expecting to be able to keep what they earn! Don't they know that we NEED what they have!?
I also love how you cite the foolishness of Democrats and then complain that it is the neocons that are destroying the country. SURPRISE! It's both! And you're helping, by being a partisan! You think your ignorant sociopaths are better than the other guys ignorant sociopaths. THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE!
Hasn't killed anybody, eh? I guess you missed the part where he has authorize God knows how many targeted killings of his "enemies", disregarding all semblance of law. That's not to mention all the Iraqis he's killed by not pulling out of Iraq like he promised (he said we would be out by last week, we've still got ~90K soldiers there).
Obama's hands are just as stained with blood as any of our recent dictators-in-chief. If you can't see that, then you are just a partisan hack. BTW, I hated Bush too.