As long as we can all have access... lets try it out! :) This is a
world of information and I'm personally willing to let all my
unencrypted, unprotected, information out there for the world to see
just so that they can tell me what sort of ice cream I want next time
I walk by the ice cream store. Seriously.. I want that.. robots..
handing me.. ice cream.
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Christopher Howard
<christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
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> Another interesting bill was passed by Congress recently called CISPA,
> the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act". Among other
> things, it gives "cybersecurity providers" (basically, private
> security organizations working for corporations) the ability to freely
> give personal information about employees, and any other data they
> want, to the Feds, without any criminal liabilities. (Except in
> certain very unlikely circumstances.)
>
> Supposedly Obama promised to veto it... but coming from the guy who
> signed ACTA in secret, I'm keeping an eye open.
>
> Anyway, you can make your own assessment:
>
> The latest text:
>
> http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/DiscussionDraftHR3523.pdf
>
> Additional articles:
>
> http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2170999/passes-controversial-cispa-despite-obama-veto-threat
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120410/12180518442/cispa-is-really-bad-bill-heres-why.shtml/
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120413/15420218488/new-draft-cispa-announced-some-progress-still-big-problems.shtml
>
> Brief rant:
>
> I'm getting REALLY tired of seeing the word "cyber" in all these
> stupid bills popping up. I think the next I see the words "cyber
> threat" or "cyber security" or "cyber terrorism" in a bill, I'm going
> to rip out my monitor and throw it through my window. For heaven's
> sake, we don't live in the matrix... if you are going to make
> technology laws, talk about real things like servers, ISPs, spammers,
> DOS attacks, and so forth, and stop using lame sci-fi terminology that
> can be broadly interpreted to mean just about anything.
>
> - --
> frigidcode.com
> indicium.us
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