PeeKnuckle Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 The US House of Representatives has just passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (HR 3523) by a vote of 248 to 168.http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/26/2978395/us-house-passes-cispa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote from the this-is-crazy deptUp until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.The vote followed the debate on amendments, several of which were passed. Among them was an absolutely terrible change (pdf and embedded below—scroll to amendment #6) to the definition of what the government can do with shared information, put forth by Rep. Quayle. Astonishingly, it was described as limiting the government's power, even though it in fact expands it by adding more items to the list of acceptable purposes for which shared information can be used. Even more astonishingly, it passed with a near-unanimous vote. The CISPA that was just approved by the House is much worse than the CISPA being discussed as recently as this morning.http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed-rushed-vote.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 See who voted and their votehttp://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll192.xml#N Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faperture Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Getting really sick of this sh*t. I love how they can just make these up and pass them without our say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 And they do it knowing we'll find out. So, if they're able to do that without batting an eye, what else are they capable of?I'm very sick of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eminutia Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 With this bill, they had better remove the word "privacy" from the dictionary. It's about time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skylark95 Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 At the rate stuff like this is happening there isn't going to be anymore privacy...I'm sure government officials would really appreciate it if we had access to their information without any real "reason" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThermoNukePanda Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Oh jesus.... this is bad. I even called both of my local representatives before the vote to voice my opinion. You know that the Senate will pass it too.Supposedly Obama and the White House are against this bill, and have threatened to veto it, but I don't believe a word that comes out of that lying sack of ****'s mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUBL DUECE Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Basically just what they did with Health care, you got to pass the bill before you know whats in it. Should go to show it doesnt matter which side it is they both want bigger government and thats not what we are based upon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 27, 2012 Author Share Posted April 27, 2012 Good article on CISPA, herehttp://www.techdirt....eed-cispa.shtmlKashmir Hill has a great post showing how the FBI and companies already share the kind of info that the bill's sponsors claim the bill is needed to allow.The FBI has been information-sharing with private industry for over a decade without a bill like CISPA in place.In 1997, long-time FBI agent Dan Larkin helped set up a non-profit based in Pittsburgh that “functions as a conduit between private industry and law enforcement.” Its industry members, which include banks, ISPs, telcos, credit card companies, pharmaceutical companies, and others can hand over cyberthreat information to the non-profit, called the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), which has a legal agreement with the government that allows it to then hand over info to the FBI. Conveniently, the FBI has a unit, the Cyber Initiative and Resource Fusion Unit, stationed in the NCFTA’s office. Companies can share information with the 501©6 non-profit that they would be wary of (or prohibited from) sharing directly with the FBI.In other words, if sharing info was important, we already had a perfectly functional model that's been in place for 15 years. This means, either that the Congressional authors and supporters of this bill were completely ignorant of this or CISPA is really meant to sneak through something worse. Neither makes CISPA or its supporters look very good. I'm actually hoping that the truth is that they're just ignorant and passing laws on issues they don't understand, because the other choice is even more depressing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeKnuckle Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 Microsoft dropped support of CISPAhttp://rt.com/news/microsoft-cispa-cyber-security-232/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dateranoth Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 Good for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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