"Cyber Attack" Just Excuse For More Government Control?
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Blitz of “Cyber Attacks” as Rockefeller Bill Approaches
"A determined propaganda blitz is well underway as the government sets the stage for the passage of Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced in the Senate earlier this year. If passed, it will allow Obama to shut down the internet and private networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access. In other words, the bill allows the government to impose authoritarian control over electronic communications."
"According to “security experts analyzing the attacks,” Obama’s White House, the Pentagon, the New York Stock Exchange, the National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department, State Department, the Treasury Department, Federal Trade Commission and Secret Service, the Nasdaq stock market and The Washington Post were targeted.
All of this is happening as Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller — who has said we’d all be better off if the internet was never invented — plans a committee vote on cybersecurity legislation he introduced in April with Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine."
Blitz of “Cyber Attacks” as Rockefeller Bill Approaches
"A determined propaganda blitz is well underway as the government sets the stage for the passage of Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced in the Senate earlier this year. If passed, it will allow Obama to shut down the internet and private networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access. In other words, the bill allows the government to impose authoritarian control over electronic communications."
"According to “security experts analyzing the attacks,” Obama’s White House, the Pentagon, the New York Stock Exchange, the National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department, State Department, the Treasury Department, Federal Trade Commission and Secret Service, the Nasdaq stock market and The Washington Post were targeted.
All of this is happening as Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller — who has said we’d all be better off if the internet was never invented — plans a committee vote on cybersecurity legislation he introduced in April with Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine."
posted by nolocontendere at 7:21 PM
2 Comments:
This is very timely-cant thank you enough for keeping the news coming in -figures eh? Jay Rockefeller-didnt realize he had said that. what a group of pricks! You know they are looking for any ways at all they can shut the net down. A somewhat slow schlub like me-but who is smart enough to learn from those smarter than him-could never have figured out a tenth or a hundredth of what i think I am onto now with the contextualizing power of the net. Great stuff as always (even tho scary as hell many times:) best to all of you here!!
Whining about some "cyber attacks" in this day and age truly gets my bullshit antenna quivering, especially when it's blamed on current whipping boys.
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