According to article on The Hill our House of Representatives will begin debating the pros and cons of a Cybersecurity law.
It will be aninterestingg debate. Just how much power (or responsibility) does the federal government want to give the Department of Homeland Security?
There is a wide variety of considerations:
- Intellectual Property inside private-sector networks
- Considerations for online poker players
- Home Networks
- Enforcementt
Having been in the business of programming Internett applications for over twenty years now I have witnessed a number of attacks. I can tell you from this experience that the attacks come from places where our federal government has no jurisdiction.
I personally believe that although their hearts are in the right place, there is really little if anything the federal government can to to protect our technical infrastructure by just passing a law.
It is up to network engineers to secure their networks and programmers to write code to ward-off attacks.
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