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A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Senate would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared "cyber emergency."
Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., are both part of what's being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, reportable directly to the president and charged with defending the country from cyber attack.
A working draft of the legislation obtained by an Internet privacy group also spells out plans to grant the Secretary of Commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be critical to the nation's infrastructure "without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access."
Who might be watching you without you knowing it? Get "Spychips" and see how major corporations and government are planning to track your every move!
Privacy advocates and Internet experts have been quick to sound the alarm over the act's broadly drawn government powers.
"The cybersecurity threat is real," says Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which obtained the draft of S.773, "but such a drastic federal intervention in private communications technology and networks could harm both security and privacy."
"The whole thing smells bad to me," writes Larry Seltzer in eWeek, an Internet and print news source on technology issues. "I don't like the chances of the government improving this situation by taking it over generally, and I definitely don't like the idea of politicizing this authority by putting it in the direct control of the president."
This is a copy of the letter that I've already FAX'ed to both of my State Senators:
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Totally AGAINST S. 773 & S. 778 (Cyber-Security Act of 2009)
These two bills would give COMPLETE control of Internet availability to the government – and pave the way for yet another TAX to help fund it – an “Internet” tax.
The text for these two bills isn’t available on Thomas yet, but numerous cyber-security and privacy experts are already worried about their scope.
I urge you to vehemently oppose this legislation – the Internet is about all we have left to both express our views and find out what’s going on behind-the-scenes.
It is the last place that you should ever give the government un-limited power to turn “on’ and ‘off’ !
If you truly want to do something to increase our “cyber-security”, you can do whatever you can to STOP the deployment of “SmartGrid” until ALL THE SECURITY HOLES ARE PATCHED!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/20/s...ef=mpstoryview
(Signed)
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Why is this "not good" for gun-owners? Where do you get the majority of your news and alerts about gun issues?
If the SHTF and people do revolt - do you want the government to be able to shut down the Internet, so that they can cover up everything they do - and minimize the extent of any such revolt? Isolate us from each other at the time we'd need each other the most?
I strongly suggest you don't waste any time contacting your Reps about THIS one. Pete
A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Senate would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared "cyber emergency."
Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., are both part of what's being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, reportable directly to the president and charged with defending the country from cyber attack.
A working draft of the legislation obtained by an Internet privacy group also spells out plans to grant the Secretary of Commerce access to all privately owned information networks deemed to be critical to the nation's infrastructure "without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access."
Who might be watching you without you knowing it? Get "Spychips" and see how major corporations and government are planning to track your every move!
Privacy advocates and Internet experts have been quick to sound the alarm over the act's broadly drawn government powers.
"The cybersecurity threat is real," says Leslie Harris, president of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which obtained the draft of S.773, "but such a drastic federal intervention in private communications technology and networks could harm both security and privacy."
"The whole thing smells bad to me," writes Larry Seltzer in eWeek, an Internet and print news source on technology issues. "I don't like the chances of the government improving this situation by taking it over generally, and I definitely don't like the idea of politicizing this authority by putting it in the direct control of the president."
This is a copy of the letter that I've already FAX'ed to both of my State Senators:
================================
Totally AGAINST S. 773 & S. 778 (Cyber-Security Act of 2009)
These two bills would give COMPLETE control of Internet availability to the government – and pave the way for yet another TAX to help fund it – an “Internet” tax.
The text for these two bills isn’t available on Thomas yet, but numerous cyber-security and privacy experts are already worried about their scope.
I urge you to vehemently oppose this legislation – the Internet is about all we have left to both express our views and find out what’s going on behind-the-scenes.
It is the last place that you should ever give the government un-limited power to turn “on’ and ‘off’ !
If you truly want to do something to increase our “cyber-security”, you can do whatever you can to STOP the deployment of “SmartGrid” until ALL THE SECURITY HOLES ARE PATCHED!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/20/s...ef=mpstoryview
(Signed)
===================================
Why is this "not good" for gun-owners? Where do you get the majority of your news and alerts about gun issues?
If the SHTF and people do revolt - do you want the government to be able to shut down the Internet, so that they can cover up everything they do - and minimize the extent of any such revolt? Isolate us from each other at the time we'd need each other the most?
I strongly suggest you don't waste any time contacting your Reps about THIS one. Pete
