{"id":424,"date":"2013-04-05T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gutcheckamerica.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2013-05-01T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:23:16","slug":"424","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gutcheckamerica.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"CISPA: A Red Hot Poker Ups the Ante for Civil Liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If the odds-on favorite cybersecurity<\/a> bill gets passed as is, it’ll be like shoving a red hot poker into the collective angst of US citizens<\/a>‘ civil liberties.<\/p>\n

The bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act<\/a> (H.R. 624) or “CISPA” for short, is flawed to its core; hell, last year even the White House said basically the same thing.\u00a0 While trying to do the right thing–allow private businesses to share information with the federal government in order to better thwart cyber attacks–what the bill REALLY allows is for ISPs<\/a> to run a muck in that digital playground known as your most sensitive online communications, and all in the name of cyber security.\u00a0 And it does all this by authorizing and immunizing conduct while in pursuit of cybersecurity threat information that the bill would otherwise deem a cyber crime.\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n

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CISPA – The solution is the problem (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)<\/p><\/div>\n

While the sponsors of this cybersecurity bill had a great opportunity to learn from their mistakes last year, they balked and apparently just rewrote the bill on paper they wiped their ass with while they took a break during the last election cycle.\u00a0 Although the White House<\/a> threatened to veto last year’s bill, the current sponsors have seen fit to say “fuck you” to the White House; this “new” version is a veritable clone of last year’s bill.<\/p>\n

The Center for Democracy & Technology<\/a> has published a document identifying the most critical problems with CISPA.\u00a0 However, CDT<\/span>, as usual, doesn’t just spew the “this is wrong, now fix the damn thing” line, they have added their thoughtful analysis and provided suggested fixes<\/span><\/a><\/span> to the bill, too.<\/p>\n

Here’s a handy bullet point list of the CDT fixes to CISPA as provided by the organization’s website:<\/p>\n

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