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Like us on Facebook CISPA is, in the simplistic terms used by the corporations and members of Congress that support it, a cyber security bill. As U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., a lead sponsor, has said, the bill would “help the private sector defend itself from advanced cyber threats.” The bill would provide a new framework for companies and governments to share information collected online with one another in order to fight against cyber attacks. Co-sponsor Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., says CISPA provides essential tools for repelling online security threats: “Without important, immediate changes to American cyber security policy, I believe our country will continue to be at risk for a catastrophic attack to our nation’s vital networks, networks that power our homes, provide our clean water or maintain the other critical services we use every day,” Ruppersberger said. But Internet freedom advocates including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Anonymous hacktivist collective have expressed their opposition to the bill, and Anonymous has taken down the websites of USTelecom and TechAmerica in recent days in retaliation for their support of CISPA, according to the RTTNews.com newswire. According to the Los Angeles Times, the bill would address “‘cyber threat intelligence,’ which it defines as ‘information in the possession of an element of [...]
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