Source: National Cyber Security - Produced By Gregory Evans
Like us on Facebook The bipartisan measure, also known as the Rogers-Rupperberger Cyber Security 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. The Electronic Frontier Foundation explained its opposition to the bill in a statement released last month: “It’s a little piece of SOPA wrapped up in a bill that’s supposedly designed to facilitate detection of and defense against cybersecurity threats. The language is so vague that an ISP could use it to monitor communications of subscribers for potential infringement of intellectual property. An ISP could even interpret this bill [...]
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