We stopped it once. Ready to stop it again?
Well I don't like the vague verbiage in this bill and think it needs some refining, this bill doesn't really "scare" me. Unlike SOPA and PIPA, this bill has a lot of companies behind it like Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. They don't want your personal emails and IMs or chats you have on Hubski, they want to exchange logs at the network layer, as that's the only place threat information exists. They aren't really worried about disclosing data because that's generally private to the company and protected by their own policies or shareholder policies and other policies that publicly traded companies adhere too. What they want to exchange are logs, hardening information, whitehat information, threat information, and things of that nature. Again, yes, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", and that's why I don't like the vague verbiage in the bill, and think it needs to be refined before it's passed. But overall, it's not a bad bill. Again, this isn't SOPA or PIPA. This isn't about file sharing, torrenting, or copyright infringement. It's not going to take any freedoms away. But the privacy concern, yes, is a pretty big one. But there was already a bill called The Patriot Act that they can abuse just fine. I'd like to see that go away, and I'd like to see the verbiage in this one adjusted to protect personal information, because as I stated above, it shouldn't really be needed unless they are locating or tracking a hacker, in which case the ISP is already bound by law to turn over user information with a proper warrant. It's also important to note this is an amendment to the national defense act, which was written long ago before the boom of the internet. At some point in time they do need to add some verbiage to it about the internet. I'm not saying the internet needs to be "controlled", but the fact that it is complete ignored in many laws and legislature is something they are going to correct at some point. But the internet seems to want to fight any bill that has the words "internet" in it, regardless of content. I think the government needs to refine the verbiage to protect private user data, even though I think they have no use for it anyway, and I think the internet protectors who rage against all of these bills need to accept that some legislature with the word "internet" will eventually get passed.