Posted on 06/07/2010 9:29:58 PM PDT by oc-flyfish
This is pretty scary stuff. The Federal government is ready to seize control of private company networks in order to "protect" us in the event of a hacker attack.
I just thought I had been banned.
I think you can find information on this in the original PATRIOT Act legislation.
Yup! I finally remembered I was a member of that group and went to see what the problem was. We're okay there, as long as Yahoo don't dream up some phoney excuse to take the groups off line for 'maintenance' of some kind.
From now on, from their point of view, there will be no more problems.
Bump to look at later...
Oh yes. I'd look at the places where repression has been the norm, but has now sort of flipped roles. For example, in the old soviet union, I saw at least a couple solutions for full forums that couldn't be read by outsiders - not the KGB, not hackers. These were typically run by the virus writing community.
When I was last regularly active, the packet revolution had just arrived (1985). I enjoyed TCP/IP over ham radio in those days. The rise of the internet made the ham radio based comms just a silly toy. Can you imagine having to wait 3 weeks to move 1 megabyte of data over a very lossy radio path? The modem data rate was only 1200 bps with lots of overhead to create the synchronous packets that carried the AX.25 UI frames that wrapped the IP datagrams.
...you are supposed to use the FR decoder ring as soon as FR goes down...
My LDS stake in San Diego had ham radio ops, but also had an effective "phone tree" and "on the ground" connectivity via foot or bicycle. We could account for 5,000 people in the space of 30 minutes without phone or radio.
“Cloud computing” is not a solution to your problem, it is the problem (you lose the privacy and possibly access, instead of gaining them) and it’s expensive proposition, to boot, to store / backup your data somewhere else.
Cloud is a “back to the future” marketing, not technological concept.
You can encode / decode email and other data, for storage or transport, with private or public encryption methods, and/or split data store / transfer on multiple computers through various P2P (legal uses) algorithms.
I guess this is their backup position or maybe supplemental method versus Net Neutrality.
The Feds can stop the flow of internet information, they can interfere with telecommunications and they can jam radio broadcasts. Whether they could do something to block hams radio users in the entire country I don’t know but they could certainly do it to individual locations. So what’s left, carrier pigeons?
BTW, anybody have any personal experience with or knowledge of the company CYVEILLANCE out of Arlington? Lot’s of government contract work and some disturbing matches if you do a search.
Get out while you can. That’s all I have to say. :)
Sleep well, I don’t see much of a problem here. Something like this was long overdue to be consolidated from several agencies (mostly NSA) into one strat-group umbrella, in light of multiple well known attempted cyber-attacks from China, Korea, Russia, Baltic Republics, Caribbeans etc.
It doesn’t create any new capabilities, just organizes and coordinates them under one umbrella, with people who already worked on this and understand the nature and can possibly prevent enemy cyber-attacks, or help coordinate tracking of terrorist sites.
It doesn’t employ any “new” technology, or any “new” powers, only makes it more transparent, somewhat similar to or in line with FISA Court. If anything, it would be more difficult to abuse with impunity, because multiple agencies’ Op-Centers would go under more central command. Think of it as cyber-DHS.
The door is there.
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I’m a ham and yes, that could be used. My thought is; if the internet is down or blocked to us it IS a legitimate emergency. FCC rules allow almost unlimited usage in an emergency. If we are deprived of FR and other venues of free speech then the game is on anyway.
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