[LINK] Cybersecurity Act of 2009

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Tom Koltai wrote:
> This is three weeks old - but appears to have slipped through the chinks
> at Link.

or  you just missed it...
> this popped up in a rss feed:
> <http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/US_to_create_new_military_command_for_cyber_warfare_WSJ-nid-55673.html>
> 
> Marghanita
<http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2009-April/083161.html>

> Possibly because it has absolutely no chance of being enacted. Then
> again....
> 
> Senator Jay Rockefeller is sponsoring a new bill...... 773.
> 
> Draft Legislation here -->http://cdt.org/security/CYBERSEC4.pdf
> 
> It's a doozy. With justification wording like:
> ----------------------------
> (10) According to the National Journal, Mike
>  McConnell, the former Director of National Intel
> ligence, told President Bush in May 2007 that if the
>  9/11 attackers had chosen computers instead of air
> planes as their weapons and had waged a massive
>  assault on a U.S. bank, the economic consequences
>  would have been ''an order of magnitude greater''
>  than those cased by the physical attack on the
>  World Trade Center. Mike McConnell has subse
> quently referred to cybersecurity as the ''soft under
> belly of this country.''
> ----------------------------
> My take on this is - gee, you mean the cyber terrorists would have been
> more successful than Lehman Bros or the AIG?
> Wow - that would have been hard.
> 
> Justification here -->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCkCWxv3kUE
> 
> My answer is - Defense Department - switch to Internet 2 or in the
> alternative
> 
> (This works for me - and I receive about 1 attack every 6 seconds)
> Set your edge routers to "Deny all"
> The encrypt each hard-disk, set all internal attachments on outward
> going emails to encryption = 1024.
> 
> Then - can you spell encrypted PVC?
> 
> I don't actually understand the problem.
> 
> But the americans are sure getting all het up about it - so - we might
> see a similar attempt in australia soon.
> 
> FUD FUD FUD FUD FUD
> 
> I wrote one of my deep and meaningful articles about sheep farming not
> long ago.
> Lets hope someone in Government read it. But if not.... Here's the
> punchline.  
> Sheep with twitter are harder to control than sheep who read dead trees.
> 
> Hey American Politicians - How about forgetting about beating up the
> internet, how about forgetting about blaming P2P'ers for every little
> thing, how about - just cleaning up your own back yard first......
> Nationalise the banks, Sack all the bankers, put in a Department of
> loans approval and get the country rolling.
> 
> Yeah - that'll happen.....
> 
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