http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/10/cybersecurity-act-of-2009-who-controls-the-internet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cybersecurity-act-of-2009-who-controls-the-internet Pro-Culture, Pro-Commerce Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/10/cybersecurity-act-of-2009-who-controls-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-1064 S.773 Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:54:59 +0000 http://www.digitalsociety.org/?p=759#comment-1064 [...] Jon Henke over at digitalsociety.com posted an interesting article that caught my eye. Of particular interest is the quote from the “Congressional staffer (who works on this issue and wishes to remain anonymous).” Thought I’d share it here. Recently, there was some debate over whether the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (S. 773) would, as Mike Masnick feared and Declan McCullagh wrote, “permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency”. Wired’s Nicholas Thompson responded, arguing that the text of the bill did not justify those allegations. [...] [...] Jon Henke over at digitalsociety.com posted an interesting article that caught my eye. Of particular interest is the quote from the “Congressional staffer (who works on this issue and wishes to remain anonymous).” Thought I’d share it here. Recently, there was some debate over whether the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 (S. 773) would, as Mike Masnick feared and Declan McCullagh wrote, “permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency”. Wired’s Nicholas Thompson responded, arguing that the text of the bill did not justify those allegations. [...]

]]> http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/10/cybersecurity-act-of-2009-who-controls-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 Jon Henke Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:25:40 +0000 http://www.digitalsociety.org/?p=759#comment-1055 Interesting. Good insight. Interesting. Good insight.

]]> http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/10/cybersecurity-act-of-2009-who-controls-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-1050 George Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:52:35 +0000 http://www.digitalsociety.org/?p=759#comment-1050 I'm hearing that we won't see a cyber bill before the end of this year. It'll probably happen by the end of the 111th Congress, but there are is still a lot of work to do. I'm also hearing that it won't be the Rockefeller/Snowe bill...it'll be the Lieberman/Collins bill. We're working with all staffs on this initiative. I’m hearing that we won’t see a cyber bill before the end of this year. It’ll probably happen by the end of the 111th Congress, but there are is still a lot of work to do. I’m also hearing that it won’t be the Rockefeller/Snowe bill…it’ll be the Lieberman/Collins bill. We’re working with all staffs on this initiative.

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