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Obama's plan to take over the internet
By SiliconIndia | Sunday, 30 August 2009, 19:34 Hrs |
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"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness. It is unclear what authority senator Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill." said Larry Clinton, President, Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board.
Large internet and telecommunications company representatives have expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller's aides. As a source familiar to the bill informed that the primary concern was the electrical grid regarding the consequences of an attack from a broadband connection.
Rockefeller's proposal provides an ease to a broader concern in Washington about the government's role in cybersecurity. President Obama has already acknowledged that the government is "not as prepared" and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff.
After three months, the post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and people are wondering that a government which has failed on the point of cybersecurity, how can they be trusted when they instruct the private sector.
The revised legislation of Rockefeller's proposal seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It seeks a cybersecurity workforce plan from every federal agency, a dashboard pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a "comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy" in six months, even though its mandatory legal review will take one year to complete.
The issue lies in section 201, which permits the President to "direct the national response to the cyber threat" if necessary for "the national defense and security." The White House is supposed to do a "periodic mapping" of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies "shall share" requested information with the federal government.
"The language has changed but it doesn't contain any real additional limits. It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous versions. The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There's no provision for any administrative process or review. That's where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it," said Lee Tien, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
So if any company is stated under the term "critical," a new set of regulations start like involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.
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Reader's comments(5)
1:
When Iran does it, that makes it despotism. When it happens in the US, apparently, it's in the name of security and national well-being.
WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
Obama wants to turn this country into the USSR.
WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
Obama wants to turn this country into the USSR.
Posted by:Thor
- 01 Sep, 2009
2:
The bill is definitely a strong step in the process of ensuring the cyber threats, and if a company is in a "critical" category, they must respect it.
Posted by:Sudhanshu
- 30 Aug, 2009
3:
It is becomming difficult to discern the real threat.
It it from the outside or is it the Obama administration
eating away at freedom from within. I do not even feel
comfortable critizing Obama for fear of retribution.
It it from the outside or is it the Obama administration
eating away at freedom from within. I do not even feel
comfortable critizing Obama for fear of retribution.
l sulivan Replied to: Sudhanshu
- 01 Sep, 2009
4:
If Bush proposed this, people would be up in arms. But since it's Obama, it's OK.
People are so blind.
People are so blind.
Dave Replied to: Sudhanshu
- 31 Aug, 2009
5:
how long will it take for people to finally realize that Obama is NOT an American, that his puppet master is George Soros and that his plan Saul Alinsky style is to finally destroy America. I am sick of this man and cannot wait for him to be found out, tried for treason and get sent to Gitomo for his fate. Wake Up People America is almost done . Work against him and the administration. Get involved in any way possible.
Posted by:Ken
- 28 Mar, 2011
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