Vote imminent on controversial US cyber security 'sharing' bills

US Senate and House committee members are confident twin security bills will be passed in the coming weeks, making serious inroads into the perennial failure that is cyber security information sharing. The bipartisan bills would offer liability protection to organisations who supply de-anonymised security threat information …

[The_Idiot]

You can have any opinion you like...

... so long as it's ours.

"This is one of those pieces of legislation that the Republicans support, the Democrats support, and the White House supports, and we just need to iron-out the edges of how we get this done,"

Because nobody actually cares whether 'the people' support it - possibly including rather too many of 'the people'.

Sigh.

[scarletherring]

Re: You can have any opinion you like...

In fact, it seems to me that this kind of bi-partisan support is a fairly robust indicator of 'the people' not supporting it.

[Trigonoceps occipitalis]

The bill is now 70 pages long (from its eight original) due to amendments including barrels of pork.

FTFY

[Mark 85]

Oh... so even though it's all "about privacy" it's double-speak and BS... and the vast majority of folks will still trust the government and the TLA's to do the "right thing" (for some value of "right"). This should send a clear signal to any other country (Safe Harbor??) who thinks the US will keep data private.

All this does is make it easier and instead of the government having to snoop, everyone can snoop for them. A pox on George Orwell for his books. They were supposed to be cautionary tales and not "operational manuals"... And a pox on my fellow citizens for electing (and re-electing) those who would kill our freedoms and privacy.

[Tony S]

"Sharing of security information is a mainstay of keynotes and government speeches, yet many in the Australian and US security communities fail to see the benefit ...."

Possibly because all too often it's a one way process. The politicos will pontificate about how we have to share nicely children, but the big kid still ends up with all the toys.