re: #13 lawhawk

The actual bill is here.

The problem - one of many - is that this would elevate things like a virus or malware to national cyber emergency status because they could conceivably shut down computer systems or cause other problems in disrupting internet activities. It looks like it is far too expansive for the potential issues, but at the same time finally gets some attention on a critical infrastructure that should have some kind of contingency plan in place for a coordinated or distributed attack against national assets attached or on the Internet.

My objection to the stories making the rounds is not that the bill doesn’t deserve criticism — it probably does. (But there’s no doubt that it’s an attempt to address a very real and very serious national security vulnerability.)

My objection is to the hysterical spin being promoted by wingnut blogs and the Alex Jones crew.