Wow, just when you though big government was someone else's problem

Sun Apr 5 00:20:22 UTC 2009

I suggest that we wait until the actual text of S.778 actually shows  
up at http://thomas.loc.gov before reacting to hyperbolic analysis of  
drafts not actually assigned to the Committee on Homeland Security and  
Governmental Affairs.  Although I am concerned with what has been  
attributed to this bill, not all drafts seem to contain the worst  
text.  Once the Committee takes up the bill, the most effective way to  
fix or kill it is for the constituents of the members of that  
Committee to call or write them:
http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=About.Membership

John

On 2009Apr4, at 6:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Jeff Young <young at jsyoung.net> wrote:
>> This comes from Lauren Weinstein's list and it's worth a read.
>> It's a bill introduced into legislation, who knows where and when
>> and if it will become law but, wow.
>>
>> http://lauren.vortex.com/Cyber-S-2009.pdf
>
> Relying on Lauren to hear about cybersecurity related news is like
> relying on Fox News for an accurate picture of what Obama is doing.
> Ignore.
>
>> I'll just give you a teaser:
>>
>> SEC. 9. SECURE DOMAIN NAME ADDRESSING SYSTEM.
>
> There's more than enough government supported work going on that
> promotes DNSSEC, in case you're not aware?
>
>> Other pearls of wisdom:  the government will license all "cyber"  
>> security
>> folks and you don't work on government or "any network deemed by
>> the president to be critical infrastructure" without one.
>
> Do you by any chance get to go work on sensitive government networks
> without, say, a security clearance?
>
> --srs
>