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From the Daily Kos:
- Internet Kill Switch: Tell Me This Doesn't Matter
Please, please, tell me that I'm overreacting. From Bunkerville: Not much excitement about this apparently.So what he cannot do by Congressional action, he does by fiat. The interesting part is that his Executive Order was posted in the Federal Register...
- Big Brother Bedfellows
Washington Post: NSA allies with Internet carriers to thwart cyber attacks against defense firms By Ellen Nakashima, Updated: Thursday, June 16, 7:37 PM The National Security Agency is working with Internet providers to deploy a new generation of tools...
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"Connecting the dots in this fashion would not have been contemplated as recently as one year ago" Oh, I don't know. Since a bunch of people here and throughout the right side of Infidelphia have been connecting these dots, one way or another, since...
- Walks Like A Duck
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet....
- Obama Administration To Involve Nsa In Defending Civilian Agency Networks
Washington Post: Obama Administration to Involve NSA in Defending Civilian Agency Networks By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 2, 2009; 3:56 PM The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security...
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Should Obama Have The Right To Throttle Your Internet Connection?
As is beginning to be evidenced here, even the Lefties are starting to worry about the Obamanation. And thus, we bring you an Infidel Bloggers Alliance first; a link to the Daily Kos.
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so.
- FromtheGOPwith3VOL's diary :: ::
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (PDF) gives the president the ability to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" and shut down or limit Internet traffic in any "critical" information network "in the interest of national security." The bill does not define a critical information network or a cybersecurity emergency. That definition would be left to the president.
The bill does not only add to the power of the president. It also grants the Secretary of Commerce "access to all relevant data concerning [critical] networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access." This means he or she can monitor or access any data on private or public networks without regard to privacy laws.
let your "representatives" know how you feel.
Note that Rockefeller thinks it would have been better if the Internet was never invented! See video below of his fear mongering:
- Internet Kill Switch: Tell Me This Doesn't Matter
Please, please, tell me that I'm overreacting. From Bunkerville: Not much excitement about this apparently.So what he cannot do by Congressional action, he does by fiat. The interesting part is that his Executive Order was posted in the Federal Register...
- Big Brother Bedfellows
Washington Post: NSA allies with Internet carriers to thwart cyber attacks against defense firms By Ellen Nakashima, Updated: Thursday, June 16, 7:37 PM The National Security Agency is working with Internet providers to deploy a new generation of tools...
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"Connecting the dots in this fashion would not have been contemplated as recently as one year ago" Oh, I don't know. Since a bunch of people here and throughout the right side of Infidelphia have been connecting these dots, one way or another, since...
- Walks Like A Duck
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet....
- Obama Administration To Involve Nsa In Defending Civilian Agency Networks
Washington Post: Obama Administration to Involve NSA in Defending Civilian Agency Networks By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 2, 2009; 3:56 PM The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security...