INTENSITY²
Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: skyblue1 on February 12, 2013, 10:17:50 PM
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It's baa-aaack.
The House cybersecurity bill that allows the National Security Agency (NSA) and the military to collect your private internet records is scheduled for an encore appearance on Wednesday. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Ranking Member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) will reintroduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which news reports say will be the same bill that passed the House of Representatives last year.
That's right, the same bill that allows companies to turn over your sensitive internet records directly to the NSA and the Department of Defense without requiring them to make even a reasonable effort to protect your privacy. The same bill that lets the government use the information it collects for cybersecurity purposes "to protect the national security of the United States"—a concept that is, of course, undefined and incredibly expansive. Here we are, ten months later, with a much-deserved veto threat from the administration, a smarter Senate alternative, and an Executive Order that will address part of the information-sharing issue—yet the House starts with the same old privacy-busting bill as before.
Because of your activism last year, big and important changes were made to the Senate cyber bill, including significant privacy protections. Let's do it again House-side. If the House wants smart cyber legislation that also protects privacy, it needs to ensure that the programs are civilian-led, minimize the sharing of sensitive personal information between government and corporations, and protect collected information from non-cyber uses.
So bone up on what CISPA does, see the many organizations from left to right who have opposed CISPA, compare it to the far better legislation in the Senate, and read why even the Obama administration threatened to veto this bill last year. And get ready to fight for your right to online privacy once again.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-...-back-life (http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-...-back-life)
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I figured it would be back in one form or the other.
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On the one hand, fuck, more overt chipping away at our rights. On the other hand, I feel like it really just legitimizes what's already done anyway. :/
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I feel like it really just legitimizes what's already done anyway. :/
Very astute.
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They are genuinely afraid of what the Internet can do.
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And what the internet will do.
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And what the internet will do.
Basement spazzes unite!!!
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I'll fight this with everything I have. >:(
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And what the internet will do.
Basement spazzes unite!!!
Well, there will be protests and actions and more protests, and then this thing will fade away, eventually morphing into something else, causing more protests and...
In short, par for the course.
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I'll fight this with everything I have. >:(
Start by writing to and calling your Congressional representative and Senator. It actually can work and if it doesn't you will at least know that you tried.
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And what the internet will do.
Basement spazzes unite!!!
Ah, the basement spazz stereotype. Internet mischief has expanded, for all you know, the weird looking hipster sitting behind you in Starbucks could have been the one to press the kill switch on a DDOS.
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And what the internet will do.
Basement spazzes unite!!!
Ah, the basement spazz stereotype. Internet mischief has expanded, for all you know, the weird looking hipster sitting behind you in Starbucks could have been the one to press the kill switch on a DDOS.
Anything is possible, but your scenario is unlikely as the weird looking hipster is probably getting laid and therefore doesn't have the time for such feckless pursuits.
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And what the internet will do.
Basement spazzes unite!!!
Ah, the basement spazz stereotype. Internet mischief has expanded, for all you know, the weird looking hipster sitting behind you in Starbucks could have been the one to press the kill switch on a DDOS.
Anything is possible, but your scenario is unlikely as the weird looking hipster is probably getting laid and therefore doesn't have the time for such feckless pursuits.
Your attack on my sex life is acknowledged.
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I'll fight this with everything I have. >:(
Start by writing to and calling your Congressional representative and Senator. It actually can work and if it doesn't you will at least know that you tried.
I've already begun. :green:
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I'll fight this with everything I have. >:(
Start by writing to and calling your Congressional representative and Senator. It actually can work and if it doesn't you will at least know that you tried.
I've already begun. :green:
:thumbup:
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And what the internet will do.
Basement spazzes unite!!!
Ah, the basement spazz stereotype. Internet mischief has expanded, for all you know, the weird looking hipster sitting behind you in Starbucks could have been the one to press the kill switch on a DDOS.
Anything is possible, but your scenario is unlikely as the weird looking hipster is probably getting laid and therefore doesn't have the time for such feckless pursuits.
Your attack on my sex life is acknowledged.
It was an attack (if something so mild could be called such) on basement spazzes, but if you define yourself as such then I guess it is fair that you consider it to be personally directed.
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And what the internet will do.
Basement spazzes unite!!!
Ah, the basement spazz stereotype. Internet mischief has expanded, for all you know, the weird looking hipster sitting behind you in Starbucks could have been the one to press the kill switch on a DDOS.
Anything is possible, but your scenario is unlikely as the weird looking hipster is probably getting laid and therefore doesn't have the time for such feckless pursuits.
Your attack on my sex life is acknowledged.
It was an attack (if something so mild could be called such) on basement spazzes, but if you define yourself as such then I guess it is fair that you consider it to be personally directed.
I missed your sarcasm. Obvious :autism: is obvious.
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How is CISPA these days? :-\
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It never passed