OK, Mr. President, those cybersecurity guidelines you ordered are HERE The Obama administration has taken wraps off the Cybersecurity Framework, a new set of voluntary guidelines outlining ways that organizations involved in energy, water, transportation, and other critical infrastructure can shore up their digital security. The guide is the result of a yearlong collaboration between the National …
These working groups etc are mainly just PR stunts so that they can say they're doing something. The actual effort will now just moulder under a pile of dust and hopefully get kicked far enough down the road that the next time it raises its head it's the next president's problem.
Same deal with all that Sandy Hook gun control lark. Nothing changed. The only result was causing fearful gun nuts to max out their credit cards and basement storage buying all the AR15s and ammo they could. 2013 was a boom year for the gun industry. A year later, the media have got tired of the issue, the ammo supply and prices are almost back to normal, and the VP is back to seeing if he can beat his own record of sharpening 200 pencils before lunch.
Interesting the way you segway to gun control, as if that anything to do with the topic.
What the government wants, and may eventually get, is total control of the net, including a killswitch. They'll promise not to use it for political reasons like they did with the IRS, but they will anyway.
and always something else almost impossible and/but perfectly good enough for AI Command and Virtual Control of Reality
It is surprising what you can learn about life and how things don't work and how to break them whenever or whether, man, you be dumb and ignorant, studious and intelligent, street smart and aware and housed in a Federal Correctional Institute presumably up to the highest standards which can be provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and private sector companies ........ Letter from Loretto
As a US tax payer, and having scanned the document I am impressed - that some number of people could labor for a year and release what superficially is a useless POS. As a former government employee (DoD) I can state that more useful documents have been available internally from Defense Information Services Agency for some years. Some is available only within DoD, but good deal of it is available to the general public.
The only way we will ever be free of control of the Internet is to take it back.
We need peer-to-peer infrastructure and wrest control away from the cable companies.
We already have multi-node protocols like BitTorrent which are far more efficient and give greater throughput than single source, single node transfers of data.
What we need are small, low power network nodes (a bit like the cell-phone picocells) and get a *lot* of people to buy them. Then gradually move over to this form of infrastructure.
The bad boys of the Internet would soon find that most of their traffic would dry up.
Not only that, it would be far more resiliant to attack or failure.
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