Thursday, June 03, 2010

Trusting this government? Huh?

Lieberman Bill Gives Feds ‘Emergency’
Powers to Secure Civilian Nets


Every day, it's something new. 

Boned Jello

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.

“... 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.

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?

In 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 ---

What?  That was an instant message ping  ..... "Cut the blah-blah and show us some boobs." 

Sigh


3 comments:

DougM said...

How's Al Gore feel about the way they're treating his invention?

Anonymous said...

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pdwalker said...

Dang Rodger! Those are some awfully big tits!

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