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Cybersecurity Act of 2012 #Fear vs #PM2012 ÜberLULZ? by #Anonymous

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“This bill would begin to arm us for battle in a war against the CYBER MAYHEM that is being waged against us by our nation’s enemies,” Sen. Joe Lieberman said, ”organized criminal gangs, and terrorists who would use the Internet against us as surely as they turned airliners into guided missiles.”

www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/02/22…-on-cyber-terrorism/

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“I wish to give particular thanks to the majority leader, Senator
Reid, for his unflagging support, based on his personal concern about
cyber defenses and based on classified briefings he received on this
problem. He pushed us to work across party and committee lines to pull
the bill together that we are introducing today.”

“And Stuxnet has shown us it doesn’t matter
if a system is air gapped, because one THUMB DRIVE plugged into a computer can lead to an INFECTION that spreads.”

“The fact is our cyber defenses are not what they should be, but such as they are they are blinking red. Yet, again, I FEAR we will not be able to connect the dots to prevent a 9/11-type cyber attack on America before it happens.”

“If we don’t act now to secure our computer network, sometime in the
future—and I believe it will be in the near future—we will be forced to act in the middle of a mega cyber crisis or right after one that has had an enormous, perhaps catastrophic, effect on our country.”

One myth about this bill is that it contains a kill switch that would
allow the President of the United States in an emergency to seize
control of the Internet. There is nothing remotely like that in this
bill. At one time we had considered language that would, in fact, have limited powers the President has under the Communications Act of 1934 to take over electronic communications in times of war. But that
provision was so widely misunderstood or misrepresented that we dropped it rather than risk losing the chance to pass the rest of this urgently needed legislation.

I also want to make clear that nothing in this bill touches on any of
the issues that quite recently have inflamed our consideration of the
Stop Online Piracy Act or the Protect IP Act, known as PIPA. Many
Members in the Chamber have, metaphorically speaking, scars that still show from that experience. No need to FEAR THIS BILL. This bill does nothing to affect the day-to-day workings of the Internet.

“One final thing I do want to deal with is a complaint from, among
others, our Chamber of Commerce that we are “rushing forward with
legislation that has not been fully vetted.” Not true.”

“I believe it is the leader’s intent
to bring up this bill in the next work period. I hope so. Because the
truth is, time is not on our side. We are not adequately protected at this moment, and the capabilities of those who are attacking us for economic reasons or who prepare to attack us for strategic reasons grows larger and larger.”

“Earlier this month, FBI Director Robert Mueller warned that the cyber threat will soon equal or surpass the threat from terrorism. He argued that we should be addressing the cyber threat with the same intensity we have applied to the terrorist threat.”

“Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper made the point even
more strongly. He described the cyber threat as:

A profound threat to this country, to its future, its economy and its very being.”

“Similarly, GEN Keith Alexander, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, and
director of the National Security Agency, has warned that the cyber
vulnerabilities we face are extraordinary and characterized by “a
disturbing trend from exploitation to disruption to destruction. “”

Senator ROCKEFELLER:

“We are here today because the experts are warning us that we are on the brink of something much worse, something that could bring down our economy, rip open our national security or even take lives.

“Think about that—cyber threats will be as dangerous as terrorism.”

FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR FEAR:

“Cyber threats and the prospects of a widespread cyber attack could
potentially be as devastating to this country as the terrorist strikes that tore apart this country just 10 short years ago. How is that possible, you ask. Think about how many people could die if a cyber terrorist attacked our air traffic control system—both now and when it is made modern—and our planes slammed into one another or if rail-switching networks were hacked, causing trains carrying people—and
more than that, perhaps hazardous material, toxic materials—to derail or collide in the midst of our most populated urban areas, such as Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, et cetera. What aboutan attack on networks that run a pipeline, refinery, or a chemical factory, causing temperature and pressure imbalance, leading to an explosion equivalent to a massive bomb, or an attack on a power grid, shutting down generators and killing electricity going into cities and our hospitals. In short, we are on the brink of what could be a calamity.”

“I think back to 2000 and 2001 when we all saw signs of people moving
in and out of the country. We were not quite sure what that meant. We
saw dots appear to connect, but did they or didn’t they? And we knew
something new and something different and something dangerous just
might be upon us, but we didn’t drill down. Our intelligence and
national security leadership took these matters very seriously, as best as they possibly could, but in the end not seriously enough. It was too late—September 11 happened.

Today, with a new set of warnings flashing before us on a different
subject—cyber security and a wide range of new challenges to our
security and our safety—we again face a choice: act now and put in
place safeguards to protect this country and our people or act later
when it is too late. I hope we act now.”

Whole transcript: www.fas.org/irp/congress/2012_cr/s2105.html

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http://youtu.be/h8VOMyMZLP4

Transcript: www.hsgac.senate.gov/download/?id=e6dc02…a5-838c-ea3cfe30a84c

http://youtu.be/ywfz0ZvNBfE

Transcript: www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2012-02-14/pd…012-02-14-senate.pdf

“This bill would begin to arm us for battle in a war against the CYBER MAYHEM that is being waged against us by our nation’s enemies, organized criminal gangs, and terrorists who would use the Internet against us as surely as they turned airliners into guided missiles,” Lieberman said. “The nation responded after 9/11 to improve its security. Now we must respond to this challenge so that a cyber 9/11 attack on America never happens”

Transcript: www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/majority-medi…sector-cyber-systems