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- joshuamic, on 06/01/2009, -0/+66 "McAfee will keep working with the government to continue the fight against cyberthreats and help protect our nation."
Ok, we are *****.... - DavidTurnbull, on 06/01/2009, -8/+71Was worried about what these plans would entail until I read:
"Our pursuit of cybersecurity will not – I repeat, will not include – monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic. We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as Americans. Indeed, I remain firmly committed to net neutrality so we can keep the Internet as it should be – open and free." - elshanero, on 06/01/2009, -2/+53"We will preserve and protect the personal privacy and civil liberties that we cherish as Americans. "
I haven't laughed that hard in a while. - irvin666, on 06/01/2009, -2/+38Anything I read about something for the sake of security or to get rid of child porn has always turn out to be much worse than they say.
- boozedrinker, on 06/01/2009, -3/+38This looks more like a Presidential power grab on the internet to me. He's just making the government bigger, and bigger, and bigger, and more powerful.
There are 14 czars now....WAY MORE than we need. And, czars are an easy way to get more people to make governement bigger without the need for confirmations. The President can appoint whomever he chooses to be a "czar" without worrying about having them approved by anyone. It's mindless government growing. You CAN BET you'll have some more freedoms taken away by this czar. - faskill, on 06/01/2009, -6/+35What was it they said about the road to hell? something about being paved with good intentions?
- ADifferentUsern, on 06/01/2009, -0/+29Republican or Democrat, I'd think all parties would agree that politicians lie.
- strictnein, on 06/01/2009, -3/+32Oh, well if he says they promise to be good and pinkie swear, then I guess there's no reason to worry.
Flowery prose does not reassure me. - jeches, on 06/01/2009, -1/+28Now Digg will be on the terrorist watch list... ain't our democracy great!!!!
- Ne007, on 06/01/2009, -6/+32You don't PROTECT the INTERNET!
You protect servers and computers.......or are they going to put surveillance on the major internet lines?
This smells of draconian censorship laws. YOU NEED PROTECTION (CENSORSHIP)! - inactive, on 06/01/2009, -3/+27That means USA will soon be going the way of AUS. with internet restrictions in the name of fear.
- Sirocco, on 06/01/2009, -0/+22People are still using the "cyber" prefix? WTF is this, 1993?
- faskill, on 06/01/2009, -4/+25You know how you protect things right? You limit the content, restrict access and MONITOR everything. This needed to happen NEVER.
- trizzleatl, on 06/01/2009, -0/+19Oh this is good, because politicians have never lied before.
- awtripp, on 06/01/2009, -2/+19Cool, but we'll see... as they say... actions speak louder than words.
- HamstaMan, on 06/01/2009, -1/+17So what are these very real very dangerous cyberthreats? Spammers? Script kiddies? Rouge 4channers? Sounds like they have watched Die Hard 4 a little too many times.
- FuzzplugJones, on 06/01/2009, -1/+17I like how all politicians are lying ***** until one comes along that you like, then all of a sudden nothing that comes out of his mouth is untrue.
- dafragsta, on 06/01/2009, -3/+18All they can give you is their word, even if it's meaningless, all you can hope for is that he follows through on his promises. I'm just glad he explicitly spelled out net neutrality and public spying, though I know Obama voted for FISA. (Among one of the many things he's done that contradicts what he says about privacy and the old administration.)
- ronniefrown, on 06/01/2009, -6/+21in the new U.S. Socializt goverment of Obama... "Protect" == control
- AITIronbird, on 06/01/2009, -1/+15forget protecting the country the government can protect its own ***** I don't need no ***** federal firewall telling me where and where can't I go due to security. And its mentioning of Conflicker made me lol viruses are OS and file system based. So a huge super virus could take out 95% of computers but they will all be windows based while mac and Linux users will just laugh @ the outcome. Good thing the best hackers in the world criminal and commercial exist within this country and we can DoS the government till it says uncle.
The internet is a gift For the People By the People and Controlled by the People. - EndouOuto, on 06/01/2009, -0/+14Total lie, they already do it w/carnivore.
- GreatSunJester, on 06/01/2009, -1/+14The Czar of Cybersecurity wishes you to know he cares about your cybersafety, For this reason:
Anonymous posting will be a crime because only people with things to hide would ever want to be anonymous.
Torrents will be illegal and their packets blocked, because only pirates will use it uncontrolled. You will be able to pay a fee and guarantee that the traffic is not "stolen" to MAFIAA representitives.
All emails must be retained by email services, just in case someone used it to do something to compromise your cyber security..
All IP access logs must be retained by ISPs, just in case someone was using a connection to do something to compromise your cyber security.
Remember, we care about your cyber security and these rules will help us protect you. You can trust us. - josh4rim, on 06/01/2009, -2/+14And his words have been to question lately.
- bheilig, on 06/01/2009, -1/+13That's crazy. The CIA is already doing that...I think.
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -2/+144chan won't let them give a damn.
- IceColdKila, on 06/01/2009, -4/+16#1. Didn't the Pentagon recently say that Twitter, and the Internet were "terrorist" tools??
#2. WHERE can I get a copy of this 76 page Cyber security action Plan that was released??? I would like to read it an see if my Sprint 4G WiMax card is considered a National Secirity threat?
thanks - gheide, on 06/01/2009, -1/+12The only real way of securing any computer - pull the power cord.
- Ne007, on 06/01/2009, -7/+18from the negative diggs I guess not....no politician has ever said one thing and did another......NOT OBAMA...NooOOoOOOO
/s - jfreeman, on 06/01/2009, -4/+15Whew! Well I guess we can all stop worrying now. President Obama is here to save us from teh evil hackers! What would we ever do without the good graces of government?
\s - michaelrsa, on 06/01/2009, -1/+11The only thing that is worse is when people call the internet the "information super highway."
But yeah, when people use the "cyber" prefix you know that they likely know nothing about what they are talking about. - inactive, on 06/01/2009, -2/+12Government protection = censorship & loss of privacy.
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -2/+11Piss off Obama, Stay away from my internets! :P
- jfreeman, on 06/01/2009, -0/+9You're thinking of the FBI and NSA. :P
- govsucks, on 06/01/2009, -0/+9Bridge for sale, Red, San Fran bay area. Cheap!
So I guess that is gonna make life tough for the homeland security boss to find her homegrown terrorists won't it? - acknotSW, on 06/01/2009, -1/+9Yes, but if you're a blind partisan (as many on digg appear to be) you believe that one side lies for good and honorable reasons while the other side lies because it's evil.
- boozedrinker, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8Or, at the very least, see a LOT more regulation and federalization of the internet under the guise of some BS cause.
- urgeigh, on 06/01/2009, -1/+9At the Americans cherishing civil liberties part? Yeah I lol'ed too.
- cmcagle, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8"Our pursuit of cybersecurity will not – I repeat, will not include – monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic -- until such time as I, or one of my successors, deems it necessary to do so."
ftfy - jfreeman, on 06/01/2009, -0/+8I'm waiting for the announcement of the War on Hacking.
- Eifandil, on 06/01/2009, -1/+8Maybe you're getting dugg down due to irrelevance. You're right though.
- momomathew, on 06/01/2009, -0/+73 1/2 inch floppy?? Does anyone use these anymore?
- greeniemeani, on 06/01/2009, -0/+7http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/obama_ ...
FTA: "Today, Americans face a great many challenges, and I hear your desperate calls for barely measurable and largely symbolic improvements in the status quo," said Obama... - urgeigh, on 06/01/2009, -0/+7Yeah it's kinda disgusting how people accept the fact that they are lied to and continue to cling to those dinosaurs. Lying is OK as long as it's what I want to hear!
- SleepParalysis, on 06/01/2009, -2/+8Yes goooood, go back to sleeep. We are from the government and we are here to help you, just close your eyes.
- tidu, on 06/01/2009, -0/+6lol @ this being submitted under "Space"
- TheNik, on 06/01/2009, -0/+5http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/documents/Cybersp ...
Right there. It's in the article. You'd know if you read it on your Sprint 4G WiMax card. - sidebuster, on 06/01/2009, -0/+5or just you know, pull out the cat5 or phone line or wireless card. Then all you have to worry about is getting a virus from shady CD's and 3 1/2 inch floppies.
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -0/+5and thumb drives.
- inactive, on 06/01/2009, -1/+6Every government move into pretty much anything means (in layman's terms) CONTROL, OVERRIDE, POWER GRAB, CITIZEN ACCESS DENIED (or MONITORED would have worked great here).
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