You are right that this should be a national security issue instead of a party issue.
However, any party that talks about national security should make this their business.
Not being totally libertarian, I am glad that the government does oversee some (but not all) parts of the private sector to prevent injury to its citizens.
I am glad that they mandate airport security to prevent physical harm.
I am glad that they FDIC insure our bank accounts to prevent financial loss.
I am glad that the Sarbanes-Oxley law was implemented to prevent entire corporations from falling, and thus hurting people's and the economy's financial health.
I believe that the government should continue on this track. They should prevent corporations from exposing private information to consulting firms that are not subject to the same laws and the same monitoring. Because the company alone will not pay the penalty for messing up. It could hurt the nation as a whole.
I guess it does sound like that, but no, I haven't lost my job to a "goo-back from the future". I was just hoping to responses that would make me better informed - perhaps my opinion is bogus.
The government DOES already control business decisions in the name of terrorism, I want to know why they are not concerned about exposing our country's financial code in this way. Terrorists attack places of business and finance with bombs, and I think that the next step to this is to attach businesses through technology. It is where we are the most vulnerable, and it is the one place that the government is not protecting.
If the GOP is truly worried about information security, then why don't they do something about all of our nation's financial institutions having their sensitive back end systems being coded offshore? Especially in areas like India, where terrorism is a big problem? If terrorists really wanted to disrupt the American way of life - all they would need to do is to hack into our financial systems. And given that these are coded offshore, they definately have the opportunity.
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You are right that this should be a national security issue instead of a party issue. However, any party that talks about national security should make this their business. Not being totally libertarian, I am glad that the government does oversee some (but not all) parts of the private sector to prevent injury to its citizens. I am glad that they mandate airport security to prevent physical harm. I am glad that they FDIC insure our bank accounts to prevent financial loss. I am glad that the Sarbanes-Oxley law was implemented to prevent entire corporations from falling, and thus hurting people's and the economy's financial health. I believe that the government should continue on this track. They should prevent corporations from exposing private information to consulting firms that are not subject to the same laws and the same monitoring. Because the company alone will not pay the penalty for messing up. It could hurt the nation as a whole.
I guess it does sound like that, but no, I haven't lost my job to a "goo-back from the future". I was just hoping to responses that would make me better informed - perhaps my opinion is bogus. The government DOES already control business decisions in the name of terrorism, I want to know why they are not concerned about exposing our country's financial code in this way. Terrorists attack places of business and finance with bombs, and I think that the next step to this is to attach businesses through technology. It is where we are the most vulnerable, and it is the one place that the government is not protecting.
If the GOP is truly worried about information security, then why don't they do something about all of our nation's financial institutions having their sensitive back end systems being coded offshore? Especially in areas like India, where terrorism is a big problem? If terrorists really wanted to disrupt the American way of life - all they would need to do is to hack into our financial systems. And given that these are coded offshore, they definately have the opportunity.