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Obama internet 'kill switch' proposed - "national asset" seized and shut down
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Obama internet 'kill switch' proposed ASHER MOSES June 18, 2010 - 2:43PM Comments 62 The internet is a dangerous place ... US Senator Joe Lieberman. Photo: AP US President Barack Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US "national asset". Local lobby groups and academics have rounded on the plan, saying that, rather than combat terrorists, it would actually do them "the biggest favour ever" by terrorising the rest of the world, which is now heavily reliant on cyberspace. The proposed legislation, introduced into the US Senate by independent senator Joe Lieberman, who is chairman of the US Homeland Security committee, seeks to grant the President broad emergency powers over the internet in times of national emergency. Titled "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act", the bill stipulates any internet firms and providers must "immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed" by a new section of the US Department of Homeland Security, dubbed the "National Centre for Cybersecurity and Communications". Lobby group TechAmerica told ZDNet it worried that the bill would give the US "absolute power" over the internet and create "unintended consequences". One of Australia's top communications experts, University of Sydney associate professor Bjorn Landfeldt, railed against the idea, saying shutting down the internet would "inflict an enormous damage on the entire world". He said it would be like giving a single country "the right to poison the atmosphere, or poison the ocean". "All our financial systems, all our security systems ... we're so reliant on the internet that if you shut it down there's a question of whether society will continue to operate normally anywhere in the Western world," Landfeldt said in a phone interview. "By doing this they would do the terrorists the biggest favour ever because they would terrorise the rest of the world". Landfeldt said the US would be the only country in the world with the ability to shut down the internet. He said such a move would be extremely difficult for the US to justify to other nations. "Unfortunately, too much of the core of the internet resides in the US - let's put it this way, they cannot shut down machines in Australia, but they can completely isolate us and shut down certain core functions like the DNS ... they can render the internet fairly useless for the rest of the world," he said. Senator Susan Collins, co-sponsor of the bill, has said: "We cannot afford to wait for a cyber-9/11." Lieberman argued the bill was necessary to "preserve those networks and assets and our country and protect our people". He said that, for all its allure, the internet could also be a "dangerous place with electronic pipelines that run directly into everything from our personal bank accounts to key infrastructure to government and industrial secrets". US economic security, national security and public safety were now all at risk from new kinds of enemies, including "cyber warriors, cyber spies, cyber terrorists and cyber criminals". Geordie Guy, spokesman for the online users' lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia, said governments around the world seemed terrified of some unidentified risk that they believe the internet poses. "The proposal is from Joe Lieberman, a repeat offender on rights versus regulation, in a bill called Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010," he said. "One wonders which nation Senator Lieberman considers the internet an asset of, and how proposing its destruction by presidential or homeland security order protects it. "The internet is not a national asset of the United States, nor is it a media regulation problem of Australia. It is an international network used by millions upon millions of citizens and it needs to remain free and available." Communications Minister Stephen Conroy did not respond to calls requesting comment. Google, one of the world's biggest internet companies, declined to comment as it was not yet official US government policy. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/tec...0618-yln6.html |
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Lieberman Attacks First Amendment
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Lieberman Attacks First Amendment By Dajjal 6 days ago Read more: security, cyber, Joe Lieberman Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 Cnet reports that Senator Joe Lieberman has announced a 197 page bill (PDF) which would give the President broad power over the internet. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010’’. First, "cyberspace" is a concept invented to describe a network of interconnected computers. There is no such place. You clicked a link, which was translated into a number, which connected your computer to a server which downloaded a file which you are reading. The internet is basically a telephone switching system that transfers digital data instead of voices. The servers and infrastructure connecting them are privately owned. They are not national assets, they are private assets. "For all of its 'user-friendly' allure, the Internet can also be a dangerous place with electronic pipelines that run directly into everything from our personal bank accounts to key infrastructure to government and industrial secrets," he said. "Our economic security, national security and public safety are now all at risk from new kinds of enemies--cyber-warriors, cyber-spies, cyber-terrorists and cyber-criminals." Anyone who is rational and informed will have firewalls, anti-virus software and other protection against hijacking his computer or network. Only a damn fool would put vital security information in a readily accessible database. Common sense dictates that ladder logic systems vital to safety and productivity, whether it be cnc tools, water pumps, chemical mixing, refineries or electric grids not be accessible to everyone with a modem. You put them on a private network isolated from the internet if you have any sense. And you use the best security software available. Because some Chink or Ruski is pinging the Pentagon we should shut down the whole internet? Prevent all access to blogs, web sites, search engines, VOIP, etc. when cutting off or firewalling one node is sufficient to solve the problem? Lieberman & co. are either incompetent or dishonest. In either case, they should be removed from office in their next election cycle. Has anyone considered the possibility that routers, hardware firewalls and servers should be designed and built domestically, not somewhere in Asia where the staff may include Communists, Muslims or common criminals whose interests are inimical to ours? Where is the firmware being written, and by whom? The President may issue a declaration of a national cyber emergency to covered critical infrastructure. Any declaration under this section shall specify the covered critical infrastruc- ture subject to the national cyber emergency. ‘‘(A) immediately direct the owners and operators of covered critical infrastructure subject to the declaration under paragraph (1) to implement response plans required under section 248(b)(2)(C); It is too broad and too bureaucratic. Exactly what is in the response plans? Would that include cutting off access to the Drudge Report & World Net Daily? Obama would like nothing better than to silence his critics. The First Amendment is intended to prevent that sort of usurpation. We have a First Amendment because the founders remembered the Stamp Act. They knew that the right to publish and distribute pamphlets & broadsides was essential to maintaining an informed electorate. In modern times, new technology is performing the same essential function and must be protected for the same reason. Now is the time to visit http://www.congress.org/ and tell your Representative & Senators to vote no on the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 and any similar proposal to seize power over the internet. http://www.bloggersbase.com/politics...cks-amendment/ |
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People won't want it, though. Looks like the next Pearl Harbor will be a major cyber-attack. Evidence will be too abstract for 99% of the population to understand. The sloppy 9/11 job and ensuing coverage fooled about half the population, even with plenty of video and photos available. How do you present data on... data? I wonder who will get the blame for this one?
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‘‘Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010’’.
It needs a cutesy acronym like PATRIOT Act.
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Why someone doesn't silence that jew piece of shit LIEberman I'll never know.
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The Internet is how they keep track people like you, why would they shut it down?
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'Hacking' is overrated. 90% of memorable data thievery is achieved via common social engineering. - Mitnick.
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Meh Kevin Mitnick is some hyped up ugly jew. Most of (whatever the hell he did) was in the 80s when computer&network security barely existed. I doubt he'd be able to do anything computer related today.
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There may be a period where we aren't allowed contact with other continents, and the only available (international)news comes from 100% jewish or jew-approved sources like in the bad old days. back to televitz and paper for a while until the filters are in place? That's the idea, I believe. And of course foreign nations can be manipulated too, as the articles mention.
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True but still a good quote and concept since the weakest links are people rather than hardware/software. His "social engineering" is con artistry and most of his success came from impersonating workers and authority figures on the telephone. When he wasn't dumpster diving for carelessly disposed of papers.
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Internet Kill Switch One More Step Toward Communism In the USA
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Internet Kill Switch One More Step Toward Communism In the USA June 19, 2010 A new bill has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Joe Lieberman that would provide the president with an “internet kill switch” if it passes. The bill is called the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act. It would cause broadband providers, search engines software firms and such to be required to “immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed” by the Homeland Security, according to the Kentucky Post. Additionally, Lieberman is quoted as saying that the bill will “let the government preserve those networks and assets and our country and protect our people.” It’s a strange world when our Internet access can be cut off by the government, and this makes me think of China. Did you know that in China, the citizens are not allowed to access Facebook? What hyperspace-involved American can imagine a life without Facebook? Now imagine your life without Internet because President Obama decided it was a threat to national security. Be careful! Don’t throw up on your keyboard. Image courtesy of me414.wordpress.com http://www.current-movie-reviews.com...sm-in-the-usa/ |
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