According to the New York Times, the President has decided to kill the existing NSA phone metadata program and come up with a substitute that leaves the metadata with the phone companies. The decision will limit the government’s ability to find older connections, since few companies hold records for three or more years; it
CISPA
Amendments to CISPA a Threat to Cybersecurity?
In response to some of the privacy criticisms of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), the House Intelligence Committee is proposing amendments to the bill. Politico’s Tony Romm reports on some of the likely amendments:
Still another amendment specifies clearly that CISPA won’t allow companies to “hack back” their hackers in pursuit of
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What Happened to the Cybersecurity Bill?
The cybersecurity bill is dead for this Congress, with cloture failing by a vote of 52-46. The Senate’s failure to reach any kind of compromise is particularly striking, given that roughly two-thirds of the basic ideas in the bill had been endorsed by all of the following: the Obama administration, Senator McCain and the…
Who Needs CISPA??
If you were wondering why CISPA is necessary, this New York Times article by Eric Lichtblau ought to tell the tale. Telecommunciatons carriers who volunteer to provide information to law enforcement get tagged with “deep concern” from Congress and the New York Times. Even a whisper of doubt about the legality of information sharing is…
Why we need to fix CISPA, not kill it
I joined security guru Dan Kaminsky earlier this year to fight SOPA because it was bad for cybersecurity. For the same reason we joined in a Politico op-ed today to rebut attacks on CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act:
We may have thrown some of the first stones, but SOPA was ultimately buried…