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Re: Senators Propose Massive Federal Control Over Cybersecurity and Internet
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:51:32 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Brock N. Meeks" <bmeeks () cox net> Date: April 4, 2009 12:52:03 AM EDT To: <dave () farber net>Subject: Re: [IP] Senators Propose Massive Federal Control Over Cybersecurity and Internet
Lauren is dead bang on. In fact, he's being remarkably restrained; there
should be a clarion call out on this beast.Imagine a President able to seize the (U.S. Side) of the Internet, I mean shut the mother down as in "no one can 'see' it," and given the power to do
that with no more justification than declaring a "national securityemergency." No criteria for what a national security emergency must be is defined in the bill. It harkens back to the famous Vietnam era quote: "We had to destroy the village to save it." In this case it's "we have to seize
the Net to save the Net."I'm hoping staff counsel were just nodding off when drafting this and phoned in the language and tomorrow we'll wake up and they will say, "Oh, c'mon, Brock, grow up... What we were really trying to do was..." or perhaps they
were too distracted watching the bottoms fall out of their 401(k) plans. Here's part of a Huffington Post column:"[The Senators] propose a sweeping federal take over of all cyber security efforts that gives the President plenary power over the Internet and other as yet to be identified "critical infrastructure." In addition to the power to seize and shut down the Internet in the U.S., the President is given the
power "in an emergency" to limit Internet traffic to any "criticalinfrastructure information system," and puts the Commerce Department at the
helm of a federal cyber security clearinghouse with the express power to override all laws and regulations, including those designed to protect privacy, to "obtain access to all relevant data" concerning critical infrastructure information systems and networks owned by the private sector." Seriously, I'm not making this stuff up. More here [link goes to Huffington Post blog entry]: http://is.gd/qFaa On 4/3/09 6:44 PM, "David Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: April 3, 2009 6:31:28 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Senators Propose Massive Federal Control Over Cybersecurity and Internet Senators Propose Massive Federal Control Over Cybersecurity and Internet http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000534.html Greetings. I'll keep this brief for now. Two U.S. Senators have proposed new legislation that would provide for a massive increase in federal involvement into key aspects of "cybersecurity," plus direct impacts on the global Internet's operations, control, and even the "certification and licensing" of related personnel. The draft bill, a copy of which I have archived here: http://lauren.vortex.com/Cyber-S-2009.pdf is of such broad and encompassing scope that I won't even try to critique it in detail yet. I urge you to read through it for yourself -- and hold on to your hats. Thought experiment: How will the rest of the world react to this proposal? --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org Founder, GCTIP - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance - http://www.gctip.org Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: LW1 ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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