House Intelligence panel OKs CISPA after closed door meeting

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Source: Computerworld

The U.S. House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday voted 18-2 in favor of a controversial information-sharing bill that was reintroduced in Congress this February after failing last year amid widespread protests from rights group and a White House veto threat.

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) next goes to the full House for a vote, possibly as soon as next week.

... The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) accused the bill's sponsors of hiding behind closed doors to push the controversial legislation.

... CISPA is designed to bolster national cybersecurity by enabling companies and federal agencies to share threat information with others more freely and without fear of legal or liability issues. Supporters of the measure, which include the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, nearly every major Internet service provider, and scores of technology companies, say that such threat-information sharing is vital to improving security.


Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238315/Update_House_Intelligence_panel_OKs_CISPA_after_closed_door_meeting

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1. BS You Can Believe In!

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2. So this just tells us what they're already doing

is my bet. Just like with telecoms and warrantless wiretapping. Now they just want to pass bills into law to cover all their asses.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

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4. don't worry, our freedom loving president will veto this ... nt

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6. Especially since his minions have been advocating for it?

[Trillo]

5. Almost all blog and email spam comes from corporations.

Here's but one malicious edit on wikipedia that comes from a static IP the service whatismyipaddress.com identified as "The County of Riverside", what seems to be a government agency that is classified as "corporate". It's curious the malicious edit seems to be mocking hemp's use as food.

Why would any government agency mock a healthy foodstuff?