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Granting emergency powers to the executive branch, the War Powers Act comes
to mind, is a double edged sword. In the hands of the wrong
person - back-stabbery! At first blush I saw in this current plan an updated CONELRAD system; remember?
I viewed CONELRAD as a good thing; a method to stop commie bombers from
riding WJJD's radio signal to my house. That was when the
body-politic had faith in elected leaders. Thought they
were copacetically in tune with the Founder's vision.
Today, and I'm pretty confident that I can speak for the majority
here, I have little, to no faith, in this government's
competence, or intentions. So this is worrisome.
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“... the President may issue a declaration of an imminent cyber threat to covered critical infrastructure.” - granting someone like Janet Napolitano control of the Internet.
“The owner or operator of covered critical infrastructure shall comply
with any emergency measure or action developed by the Director,” the
bill adds.
These emergency measures are supposed to remain in place for no more
than 30 days. But they can be extended indefinitely, a month at a time.
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Remember when reactionaries kidnapped Gorbachev, and put Moscow under
siege in an attempt to resurrect the Soviet government? The
Internet was credited with allowing Russian patriots to rally a
defense, and win the day. I have a feeling that Democrats, who
today view Thomas Jefferson as a radical right-winger, view that as a
warning, Making things more problematic, and this is true of
every piece of legislation the Obamacy's passed, the execution
trigger of the plan is left to the whim of ... whom?
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order for the President to declare such an emergency, there would have
to be knowledge both of a massive network flaw — and information that
someone was about to leverage that hole to do massive harm. For
example, the recent “Aurora” hack to steal source code from Google,
Adobe and other companies wouldn’t have qualified, one Senate staffer
noted: “It’d have to be Aurora 2, plus the intel that country X is
going to take us down using that vulnerability.”
A second staffer suggested that evidence of hackers looking to leverage
something like the massive Conficker worm — which infected millions of
machines and was seemingly poised in April 2009 to unleash something
nefarious — might trigger the bill’s emergency provisions. “You could
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What? That was an instant message ping ..... "Cut the blah-blah and show us some boobs."
Sigh
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