Fake (in my opinion) hacker group Anonymous is doing its job quite well. They attack, Congress comes up with the solution -- reducing online freedoms. Problem-Reaction-Solution in its purest form. The internet has been a thorn in the side of the powers that be, as so many have awakened to their wrongdoings by researching online. Will they be able to stamp out the internet in its current form before enough people wake up and put a stop to it?
CISPA’s back: Hacking, online espionage resurrect cybersecurity bill
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced before the US House next week following a spate of cyber espionage and hacking attacks. Civil liberties advocates have criticized the bill for violating privacy laws.
The House Intelligence Committee’s Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) will attempt to breathe new life into CISPA on Wednesday.
The bill will be identical to the version of CISPA that passed the House last spring, but was defeated on the Senate floor in August mainly because the upper house was hammering out its own cyber security bill.
CISPA would allow for the voluntary sharing of Internet traffic between private companies and the government. The bill is purportedly intended to help the US government, especially the intelligence community, to investigate cyber threats and ensure the security of networks against cyber attack, especially those emanating from countries like China and Iran.
The bill would also allow the federal government to provide classified cyber threat information to private firms, and protect them from legal action in the course of sharing private information.
Opponents of the bill say it would allow companies to hand over a user’s private browsing information to the government, allowing authorities to spy on American citizens rather than simply track down cyber threats...
More @ http://rt.com/usa/news/cispa-congress-reintroduce-act-825/
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Why pass a bill when they already are spying on us. What they track are specific code words. Is this another misplaced public relation?
Right on Chrys I have not trusted Anon from just after their first two posts.
RT is not the most reliable of sources. As for Anon, every group gets infiltrated by the gov't and gets twisted, all part of the muddying of waters so no one knows white from black from gray.