Politics/Ethics: Operation PinWale - Obama Administration Seeks Emergency Control of the Internet

[Joshua Zeidner]

 It comes as no surprise that this is coming from Jay Rockefeller,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY

 -jmz

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Lisa Kachold<lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> "While the details are unknown, credible evidence indicates that
> billions of everyday communications of ordinary Americans are swept up
> by government computers and run through a process that includes both
> data-mining and review of content, to try to figure out whether any of
> us were involved in illegal or terrorist-related activity. That means
> that even the most personal and private of our electronic
> communications–between doctors and patients, between husbands and
> wives, or between children and parents–are subject to review by
> computer algorithms programmed by government bureaucrats or by the
> bureaucrats themselves. (Cindy Cohn, “Lawless Surveillance,
> Warrantless Rationales,” American Constitution Society, August 17,
> 2009)
>
> Reference:  http://fromthewilderness.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/obama-administration-seeks-emergency-control-of-the-internet/
>
> This bill includes a provision for government mandated certification
> for professional security or systems people.
>
> While government mandated certification might be required (for
> government networks); I am not afraid that passing the requirement
> will be difficult.
> No licensing has ever been hard.
>
> Controls on private industry at a licensing level from government
> simply dumb down the
> private sector technical standards who somehow suddenly think their
> open ended liability has been handled by triangulation.
>
> While PCI compliance regulation was certainly finally required, a
> licensing requirement for individuals working on systems will actually
> thwarth evolution toward real secure systems when clearly a quarterly
> system SCAN for technical proof of PCI and HIPPA compliance is
> indicated (just like peanut processing plants are required to be
> tested for salmonella).  Should America continue to hire
> Persian/Iranian, East Indian and Pakistan "IT professionals" at low
> low wages, the licensing might make sense, however how does one
> determine IT terrorism from abject greed or uneduation?  If one can
> pass a trivial government licensing test, then fails to provide
> technical due dilligence because of corporate management, is that a
> political agenda?  Let the private industry determine
> technical/professional level required for their engineers by
> financial/fiscal policy, like they did creating security issues not
> paying hourly wages sufficient to the work required, not listening to
> their technical security and development staffs recommendations.
>
> The government will go ahead with it's control of private Internet
> visa a vi this bill (or another with similar provisions) since this
> will allow the real agenda of tapping various large nets (MAE-WEST,
> Akamai Technologies) for packet traffic, which are fed into analysis
> engines on the basis of known risk criteria as part of DHS/NSA
> international agenda (that is without borders with regards to Internet
> packets).
>
> Some level of this bill is required, and will happen.  I, unlike my
> parents, do not fear information, since I don't ever do anything that
> would be flagged into a database that
> would bring negative consequences.  I expect that misuse of secret
> information, in human hands (read government) will continue until
> humans evolve beyond that, or develop systems to ensure protection
> (which ironically will start with NSA/DHS information technology at a
> governmental level).
>
> Disclaimer: This is a technical ethics discussion, let's keep ON
> SUBJECT related to IT here.
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