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Senate Panel Approves Cybersecurity Bill
GovTechGuy writes "A Senate Committee approved a bill that would give the president an emergency 'kill switch' over the Internet, but added some restrictions to the bill. The president may no longer simply assert that the threat remains indefinitely, he must now seek Congressional approval after 120 days. Still, privacy advocates are concerned about the government's ability to shut down private networks. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) 'said she was disappointed to read reports that the bill gives the White House a "kill switch" for the Internet, an authority she says the president already has under a little-known clause in the Communications Act passed one month after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. ... Collins [argued] the new bill actually circumscribes the president's existing authority and puts controls on its use.'"
I don't know either, but I'm pretty sure this was done only to silence the public opinion on the US "not doing anything about the hackers!". What's the point of shutting down the networks once the damage is done? Cyberattacks can't be seen coming, like physical ones, and are fundamentally different. Why are those crucial computers networked in the first place, and why aren't they air-gapped?
If anyone's interested, you can read my full opinion at this address.
Hyperbole: I use it liberally!
Whether one chooses to acknowledge this fact or not, The spoken and written languages are equations. When misused, they create different results. To say that using pronoun "your" is clear enough to substitute when conjunction "you're" is implied is exactly the same as saying a^2 + b^2 = C^2 is no different than the same equation ending with c^3. But wait! The 3 is next to the 2 so people should know what i mean! Or better, nine when spelled in English has two of the same letters as "one" so you knew what I meant! The use of language is a set of values which correlate with one another. "I went to the store" does not equate "The store went to I". If you choose to ignore those values then you deserve to be misunderstood, or worse, scammed. For everyone who thinks "your stupid" is completely legitimate and expressed concretely, I'd like to write a contract to sell products or services to you.