Okay all you cyber geeks that depend on the internet for everything from shopping to sex it is time to wake up to a reality that is approaching……
A bill introduced by Joseph Lieberman, Independent Senator from Connecticut and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman, would give the US president wide-ranging powers, including the ability to order Internet providers to restrict access to the global network.
The bill, entitled the “Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act” (PCNAA), was presented in the Senate June 10 by Lieberman, with the support of Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Tom Carper of Delaware.
Known by the short name “Protecting Cyberspace,” the bill has been dubbed an Internet Kill Switch as it presents the Internet itself as a US national asset, over which the president would be given extraordinary powers in a declared “cyber emergency.” Under PCNAA, already extensive powers to force private companies to comply with emergency decrees would be greatly expanded. Any company on a list created by the Department of Homeland Security that also “relies on” the Internet, telephone system, or any other component of the US “information infrastructure” could be taken under the control of a proposed new National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC), which would be a section of Homeland Security.
While you were asleep or watching “Dancing with the stars” your privacy and your rights are being attacked. Wake up, dipstick!
I think you made a mistake there – you got the name wrong didn’t you? Isn’t this Senator Kim Jong-il? The GOP representative fron North Korea?
National asset my arse! It’s international and none of his fucking business – pillock!
Yep…..small steps before big brother……,
Sorry about the delay in my response but I have a water leak between walls….just a joy to deal with……
Oh trust me, the geeks are well aware of this.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/06/24/1359242
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/1156240/Senate-Panel-Approves-Cybersecurity-Bill?art_pos=6
To be honest, the original intent was something I could support but this beastie has mutated so many times I can’t tell if I am looking at a face or a sphincter. If what Collins says is true, why do we even need a new law if there is already one on the books? I cannot help but to think that there is something hidden in there.
Terrant – yes there’s something hidden and not very well either… anyone who knows anything about the internet knows that what’s actually in the USA is a small part and is duplicated all over the world.
Additionally, almost ALL companies are at least in part dependent on the internet these days, so from Lobotero’s description above, all the bill gives is Homeland Security the right to walk into ANY US company and take it over or access ALL its data!
Homeland Security sounds a lot more dangerous than even Jack Bauer would see it – perhaps more dangerous than AQ itself since it looks to me like a step towards a future coup, wouldn’t you say????
Like the internet or any serious part of it is a US asset anyway – duh!
Sorry about your leak Lobotero 🙁 check that any repairman who calls doesn’t fit any hidden listening devices or cameras anywhere…
What’s it like living China, you guys?