Brookings: CyberSecurity In the Balance - 2 New Bills SOPA/PIP

[Lisa Kachold]

Hi Sam,

We miss you.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Sam Kreimeyer <skreimey at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's good to see an argument against these laws from a purely
> technical perspective beyond reemphasizing how easy these protections
> are to circumvent. The implementation of these blacklists could
> inadvertently provide a vector to alter DNS behavior, especially if
> they are required to obtain and update these blacklists from a trusted
> source automatically. Considering the recent embarrassment surrounding
> DigiNotar, implicit trust does have disadvantages.
>

Yes, trust is a serious issue.

While the technical implications are huge, the impact to our constitutional
rights is even greater, and it's strange this is not being more broadly
contented.
Never in the history of the United States has legislation that potentially
removes the individual from information, reduces our constitutional rights,
and remove the legal (liability) process in favor of a police state been
set forth.

The  Protect IP
Act<http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/protect-ip-act#.TsO7x3Ec__g>and
Stop Online Piracy Act are opposed by
EFF<https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill>,
OpenDNS<http://blog.opendns.com/2011/11/08/an-open-letter-to-congress-about-sopa-and-protect-ip/>,
ISP's <http://www.protectinnovation.com/downloads/letter.pdf>, American
Civil Liberties
Union<http://www.net-coalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ACLU-Statement-to-HJC-SOPA-11-16-11-1.pdf>,
BiPartison Congressmen<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111115/09233216778/ron-paul-comes-out-against-sopa-joins-other-elected-officials-saying-no-to-great-firewall-america.shtml>(Ron
Paul), Intellectual
Property Attorneys, <http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/72831784> International
Human Rights Community<http://www.net-coalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SOPA-letter-from-Intl-human-rights-community-1.pdf>,
Global Network Initiative<http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/newsandevents/Open_letter_on_freedom_of_expression_intellectual_property_and_H_R_3261_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act.php>,
Consumer Electronics
Group<http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cea-reiterates-opposition-sopa-170100704.html>,
Public Interest
Groups<http://www.net-coalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Public_Interest_SOPA_Letter-1.pdf>and
nearly everyone else who cares about the current nature of information
have drafted letters to oppose these acts.

We each can also oppose these
Acts<https://wfc2.wiredforchange.com/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173>,
since, even with the opposition, it's not clear that they will not be
adopted in a watered down fashion.


> On 11/15/11, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> > http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/1115_cybersecurity_friedman.aspx
> >
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