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Cybersecurity Act of 2009

POSTED BY: CANTTAKESKY
UPDATED: Friday, May 29, 2009 10:24
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Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:32 PM

CANTTAKESKY


http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s773/show

Quote:

"The President ... may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network ...[and] may order the disconnection of any Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks in the interest of national security."


Am I the only one that finds this ultra creepy?






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Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:23 PM

BADKARMA00


Quote:

Originally posted by canttakesky:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s773/show

Quote:

"The President ... may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information system or network ...[and] may order the disconnection of any Federal Government or United States critical infrastructure information systems or networks in the interest of national security."


Am I the only one that finds this ultra creepy?









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No, you aren't. HObamaman can throw the switch anytime he wants, and cut all of us off from each other.

Course, he wouldn't do something like that, would he?

Not him.

Bad_karma
Great and Exalted Grand Pooba, International Brotherhood of Moonshiners, Rednecks, and Good Old Boys.

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Friday, May 29, 2009 2:07 AM

JONGSSTRAW


It's only a matter of time before the Internet WILL have to be terminated. The ever-increasing quantity and sophistication of cyber attacks against our critical systems such as power grids, water plants, transporation, military, ID theft, financial fraud, etc. will leave us with few options.


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Friday, May 29, 2009 9:19 AM

BADKARMA00


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
It's only a matter of time before the Internet WILL have to be terminated. The ever-increasing quantity and sophistication of cyber attacks against our critical systems such as power grids, water plants, transporation, military, ID theft, financial fraud, etc. will leave us with few options.




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Looks to me like they can remove those systems from the net, and leave the rest to us, lol.

But, since I don't have one iota of knowledge about how that stuff works, I'm probably wrong.

Bad_karma
Great and Exalted Grand Pooba, International Brotherhood of Moonshiners, Rednecks, and Good Old Boys.

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Friday, May 29, 2009 9:47 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by badkarma00:
Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
It's only a matter of time before the Internet WILL have to be terminated. The ever-increasing quantity and sophistication of cyber attacks against our critical systems such as power grids, water plants, transporation, military, ID theft, financial fraud, etc. will leave us with few options.




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Looks to me like they can remove those systems from the net, and leave the rest to us, lol.

But, since I don't have one iota of knowledge about how that stuff works, I'm probably wrong.

Bad_karma
Great and Exalted Grand Pooba, International Brotherhood of Moonshiners, Rednecks, and Good Old Boys.


I hear ya. All I really need to get by is Yahoo, FFF, Amazon, and Bestial....whoa there!

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Friday, May 29, 2009 10:24 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Can't put that genie back in the bottle, no matter how they try - there's samzidat, various forms of distributed computing, intranets, hell, even ham radio for that matter.

It might stumble for a while, but people as a whole would put the damn thing back together in other ways, believe it.

-F

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