Presidental Kill switch for the NET

Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet

Details of a revamped version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 show the Senate bill could give the president a "kill switch" on the Internet and allow him to shut out private networks from online access.

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My first reaction to that is it's funny.

Iran tried a version of that.

I'd like to know how they plan to do this?

Smells like over kill.

If USA had an Cyber Army, then that would

be the first line of defense, a good offense.

Our paradigm Intel indicates USA has no

such Cyber Army.

A domain where we only have defenses.

A domain on standby for a 'clock cleaning'.

Our Paradigm Intel says USA has a great

offense for Bot Farms, but the control of

the Net is slowly slipping away from the

civilians to the Hackers.

http://warintel.blogspot.com/2009/08/

badware-preparing-to-control-net.html

The part about huge funding Awards to

increase security is a concept we have been

pushing for a long time now.

Anybody have a link to the actual Bill?

Gerald

Hat tip to my bartender.

Follow up:

The bill is missing several points.

#1) It talks about protecting American

web, there is no American web, its

Internetional.

Protecting the American net while the

rest of the worlds Internet has been taken

down is futile.

#2) Its not clear about the awards,

they should be available to the Security

vendors.

#3) SEC. 7. LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION OF CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONALS.

Should include Anti-virus vendors also.

Currently there are 300 fake Security

vendors with bogus websites.

The public has no way of knowing

if they are protected or not.

#4) SEC. 4. REAL-TIME CYBERSECURITY DASHBOARD.

Should be made available to public.

#5) There should be some criteria for

public use of Internet, fire wall,

anti-virus, etc. To prevent Bot nets

building bot farms in USA.

Actual Bill

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

Bill Review:

Gerald

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