House Passes Cybersecurity Bill: 422-5; Ron Paul "No"
February 4, 2010, 11:22 am
House Passes Cybersecurity Bill
By JANIE LORBER
Update | 12:46 p.m. The House today overwhelmingly passed a bill aimed at building up the United States’ cybersecurity army and expertise, amid growing alarm over the country’s vulnerability online.
The bill, which passed 422-5, requires the Obama administration to conduct an agency-by-agency assessment of cybersecurity workforce skills and establishes a scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students who agree to work as cybersecurity specialists for the government after graduation.
As officials puzzle over how to defend the nation from enemies that are often impossible to pinpoint, the lawmakers behind the bill said education and recruitment are crucial.
“Investing in cybersecurity is the Manhattan Project of our generation,” Representative Michael Arcuri, Democrat of New York, a sponsor of the bill said on the House floor Wednesday. “But this time around we are facing far greater threat. Nearly every high school hacker has the potential to hamper our unfettered access to the Internet. Just imagine what a rogue state could do.”
Mr. Arcuri said that the federal government will need to hire between 500 and 1,000 more “cyber warriors” each year to keep up with potential enemies. Troops online “are every bit as important to our security as a soldier in our field,” he said.
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FBI wants records; police want backdoor access
Via cnet news: FBI wants records kept of web sites visted -- quick quote:
WASHINGTON--The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.
FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information," a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.
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Another interesting cnet news article is this: Police want backdoor to Web users' private data -- quick quotes:
CNET has reviewed a survey scheduled to be released at a federal task force meeting on Thursday, which says that law enforcement agencies are virtually unanimous in calling for such an interface to be created.
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The police survey is not exactly unbiased: its author is Frank Kardasz, who is scheduled to present it at a meeting (PDF) of the Online Safety and Technology Working Group, organized by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Kardasz, a sergeant in the Phoenix police department and a project director of Arizona's Internet Crimes Against Children task force, said in an e-mail exchange on Tuesday that he is still revising the document and was unable to discuss it.
an apt simile, very conscious of opportunity cost
Like the Manhattan project, which secretly employed thousands of capable minds for (equivalently) billions of dollars to create an apocalyptically deadly device, so shall excessive cybersecurity severely malinvest invest people and capital, at the expense of solving any real problem on Earth.
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They want to skim the cream off at an early age, just like ...
the military, to mold them into government robots.
Bottomline-Cencorship with a fake label.
A deadly blow to free speech. It's already happening. Alex Jones is restricted in many European countries, Austailia, China (of course) and right here in US many places.
You better believe DP will be in line to go.
We need to fight this while we still can.
Ask yourself, When has the House passed any bill that is actually beneficial to middleclass Americans?
Help me here. I can't seem to think of even one.
Hmmm!
According to my small-town local bank, the government, or at least parts thereof, is on its "own separate (from ours) internet". I found this out when a bank officer was trying to talk me into using online banking more often (older lady here and not too computer savvy). She shared this information with me when I expressed my concerns.
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