H.R.4061 - Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009

To advance cybersecurity research, development, and technical standards, and for other purposes. view all titles (4)

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  • Official: To advance cybersecurity research, development, and technical standards, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Short: Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009 as introduced.
  • Short: Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2009 as reported to house.
  • Short: Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2010 as passed house.

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  • UKFiend56 02/04/2010 6:11am

    I work in a Federal Privacy office and with several cybersecurity initiatives. Yesterday CNN printed the following in a article about the need for more information security: “‘Sensitive information is stolen daily from both government and private sector networks, undermining confidence in our information systems, and in the very information these systems were intended to convey,’ Blair wrote. ‘We often find persistent, unauthorized, and at times, unattributable presences on exploited networks, the hallmark of an unknown adversary intending to do far more than merely demonstrate skill or mock a vulnerability.’”

    The government has cybersecurity attacks every month, and trust me, we need this bill to secure our computer privacy. This isn’t like getting Norton Antivirus for your computer—this is serious.

  • Mrs_B 02/04/2010 4:30pm

    This is serious all right: A seriously near-bankrupt fed.gov is seriously afraid! Notice that the well-rehearsed cyber attacks of the past year amazingly coincided with discussion of ‘cybersecurity’. Wake up folks, it’s a big set-up to limit/phase out the internet while tracking millions of users to empower fed.gov with the ultimate surveillance / propaganda tool. Google works with the NSA already.

    Sen. Jay Rockefeller proposed a cybersecurity bill saying the internet is the “number one national hazard” to national security, a view shared by the former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and Obama’s current director Dennis Blair. “It really almost makes you ask the question would it have been better if we had never invented the internet,” said Rockefeller.

    Are these the people you want in charge of cyberspace? You want them to be given elite teams of young cyber-geeks to manipulate? Have you forgotten Goebbels and German media? SAY NO TO ALL SUCH BILLS!

  • PlanB 02/05/2010 2:34am

    UK, that’s fine if you want to do something like that in your country, but what’s done there doesn’t mean it should be done here. Net Neutrality and the Cyber Sec Act, mentioned by Mrs. B, is an effort to cut off the people from media sources the elitist do not own. I smell bull****. “He who gives up temporary secrecy for security deserves neither” – Benjamin Franklin

  • Koristar 02/07/2010 1:48pm
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    This is ridiculous! Where the heck is the goverment reset button??

    My Bill of Rights, My United States Constitutional Right!
    Let’s review:

    Amendment I

    Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    This Cybersecurity Bill will give the government the right to abridge( to cut short ) our freedom of speech on the internet by banning me, you … anybody they want, whenever they want! Congress men and women took a constitutional oath to protect our rights. Will they really break their oath? I hope that my United States Congress will have the wisdom to throw this bill in the trash can.

  • InfoWars_dot_Com 02/11/2010 11:40am
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    Those who think they will live forever and control our lives will only go down in history as truly evil Elite who will meet the Creator after their natural lives expire and find out they were dead wrong. The saying power corrupts is oh so true. Just look at Washington. It’s a Fall of the Republic.

    http://www.prisonplanet.com
    http://www.infowars.com
    http://www.911truth.org
    http://www.auditthefed.org
    http://www.oathkeepers.org
    http://www.lp.org

    All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

    A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
    Thomas Jefferson

  • Jinx3726 02/11/2010 12:22pm
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    I agree . This bill is DANGEROUS! It’s against our free speech. Your gonna have to pay for a license to get on the internet and supply BIOMETRICS! 666…

  • kristina 03/29/2010 6:56pm

    My son works for the local planetarium here. He said that their computer security was far and away safer than the Pentagon. Why? Because they are not connected to the internet! Imagine! Here is a question, why is the Pentagon connected to the internet in the first place? What part of our national security do we want to make accessible to the public at large, at any time? They can’t think of a way to get information between offices or different sights? That is pretty lame. So they have to take away our resources and free speech because they can’t think of away make their computer only talk to each other? Right!
    This is a really scary bill and one I have been expecting for some time now.
    Everyone needs to speak up!


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