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European Union's First Cybersecurity Law Gets Green Light (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The European Union approved its first rules on cybersecurity, forcing businesses to strengthen defenses and companies such as Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to report attacks. The European Parliament endorsed legislation that will impose security and reporting obligations on service operators in industries such as banking, energy, transport and health and on digital operators like search engines and online marketplaces. The law, voted through on Wednesday in Strasbourg, France, also requires EU national governments to cooperate among themselves in the field of network security. The rules "will help prevent cyberattacks on Europe's important interconnected infrastructures," said Andreas Schwab, a German member of the 28-nation EU Parliament who steered the measures through the assembly. EU governments have already supported the legislation. The EU Parliament also noted that network-securitiy incidents resulting from human error, technical difficulties, technical failures or cyberattacks cause annual losses of upwards of $377 billion (340 billion euros).
it's human on purpose
This has been a long time coming. Companies should be held accountable for their negligence.
Will it apply to UK?
Probably nothing. The EU is maybe inefficient and busying itself with trivial matters, but there are limits on HOW trivial a matter may be before even the EU says "Call someone who gives a shit".
We leave that to countries that don't want to tackle their real problems, so making up some new ones that they can then get worked up about is necessary to distract the people.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Economic integration requires common legislation. At least the bureaucrats were recruited based on skill based selection procedures. Most probably, they are better qualified than the populist idiots in the national parliaments.
What everyone signed up for was in-fact an ever closing union, with intent of forming a proper political union. In the case of the UK, political union was heavily debated in the 1975. Although many people claim that they where deceived and they never discussed the political union, looking at the records of what was said during the 1975 referendum campaigns, and the debates in the UK parliament, it is clear that this is utter bullshit.
"Civis Europaeus sum!"
Skill based selection procedures. Not 'who', mr annonomous covard. Can't have direct voting for complex questions, since populistic clowns will the run the show, making the vote into and about something totally different.
I guess you don't know that in the British parliament members from different parties are elected, and then those people select the prime minister? Either the EU and the UK are not democracies, or they both are. Pick one.
It doesn't particularly help your case when you don't know what "democracy" or "socialism" mean.
What? The European parliament *is* elected by the people and they have the final say over what the European Commission legislates. The head of the European Commission is appointed by the Council of Europe which is composed of (surprise, surprise) the governments of the respective European member states. The European Commissioners even have to be approved by the European Parliament.
Where is the democratic deficit in that?
Moreover, European officials are told to leave their national special interests at the door and work for the European people as a whole.
Nonsense. In the British parliament members from different parties are elected, and then the monarch invites someone who she thinks can command the support of a majority of them to be PM.
Dear Coward Anonymous: Please point out where I am lying. In the meantime, have a look at this video. I think Alan Moore's vision of a totalitarian Britain would agree with you.
Are you sure you don't suffer from Down's Syndrome? You are quoting a comment about Macs having hosts files and your software not working for Mac, by linking to comments by security researchers about how good hosts files are. This all in response to a post that completely thrashes every one of your arguments, including whatever you are trying to claim here.
Perhaps you should get your head checked, as it looks like you don't even understand basic conversation techniques.
Also, insulting me doesn't cause you to somehow win an argument that you have already lost. No matter how many time you try to claim I have a "ASSBURGER mental defective brain", it won't make you suddenly win an argument. Also, calling me offtopic when I am responding directly to what you posted is a joke, that means you have identified that YOU are the offtopic one, so why should I care if you think I am offtopic, you can see I didn't get down-modded for it.
So, EAT YOUR WORDS. You have failed to make your point, you have failed to justify why your solution is needed, you have failed to refute any of my points, and you still haven't addressed the massive speed loss of using your solution.
Keep tilting at those windmills Quixote, I am sure they will surrender eventually.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Everything typed in the comment above agrees with what I said. I said APK's software doesn't run on Macs, I never said hosts files don't function on Macs.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
APK, you are putting words in my mouth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I NEVER typed that hosts files don't work. I never said hosts files don't work. You are arguing with a straw man of your own manufacture, not anything you can quote from me.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Um, then you have the reading comprehension of a toddler. No, nowhere in there does it say hosts don't work on Mac.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Aww, did poor diddums get insulted that he made a serious reading mistake?
I have already answered everything in this post at least five times before, I will leave you wanting yet again, as I rather like my job and wouldn't want to lose it just to prove you wrong. Also, it is not necessary for me to prove my experience and prove myself more credentialed than you to prove you wrong on your points. As I have given the citations for my answers, their credentials is what you have to beat.
Since you can't even understand basic English, why do you suddenly think you are so much better than me?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I did, and you responded to the post about it just now.
I have a job, clearly one better than yours as you seem to live in your mom's basement, while I own my own house and drive a nice car.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Why should I prove anything to you? You have never proven the same, and your examples of your abilities would have you fired from my office, so I can't imagine that you ever worked professionally in security or programming.
So, you can feel free to prove your experience in programming, but I won't prove my security or job experience, which you already know. I can't give company proprietary information.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Yup, totally. APK can prove he wrote a piece of software that is proven shit, and can prove he wrote a document collected from many other people's work about how to setup Windows 2000. That totally equates to proving himself incompetent. Thank you for playing, you fail.
Quit defending yourself APK, no one thinks this is some random third party also posting anonymously, but using the exact same arguments you use.
Also, what I do for a living has nothing to do with the arguments I make, as I don't try to appeal to authority like you do APK, I prove you wrong without showing my credentials, and as you have never shown yours, why should I show mine?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?