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Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure
CelticWhisper writes "H.R. 3674, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness Act (PRECISE Act), would allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to require improved security practices from those businesses managing systems whose disruption could prove detrimental to critical life-sustaining or national-security initiatives." As the article points out, this is just "one of 30 or so such bills currently percolating on the Hill."
The KGB just called. They'd like an apology.
You need to upgrade all of your Linux servers to Windows. Our friends in Redmond assure us this is an improvement of utmost importance.
does the DHS even have the necessary expertise in IT security ?
Of course not. What a silly question.
Understanding something is not a requirement for supervising it. Ask your boss.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Twitter has repeatedly been used in life saving situations. Therefore, we the .gov, must ensure it's ability to function.
Hi, please insert these tentacles into the Twitter system and relay every message through Langley. OKay THANX...
I CAN HAV MORE TAXBURGER NOW?
...and SOX and the SEC helped us avoid the banking disaster.
Republicans CLAIM that they are for smaller government actually, they just want THEIR rules in place, rather the ones the Democrats want.
And they are just as bad as the democrats. If both parties don't start working together eventually the american people will kick all the lazy bastards in congress out.
"We are just a war away from Amerikastan. When god vs god the undoing of man." Dave Mustaine
that criminalizes assigning lame-ass, lying acronyms to bills.