It is reported that the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will become law in less than 48 hours time. Rumour has it that the White House plans to introduce an executive order on cyber security after the State of the Union address on Wednesday. Apparently, the order has been in the works for months, following a spate of cyber espionage and hacking attacks. We wait to see what happens. Meanwhile, we also report that CISPA has a friend, called RIOT (see below for more details and video above).
CISPA was combatted by many prominent persons as well as organisations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which played a leading role in the campaign to ensure the bill never became law. Another opponent was the late Aaron Swartz via the Demand Progress organisation. Unlike Swartz, CISPA is very much alive and a threat to all Americans. Around 800 companies have, crucially, provided backing to CISPA – these are listed below.
A. CISPA’s new friend
To complement CISPA, there is RIOT, the new product from the defence company, Rayethon, and which is featured in the above video. RIOT will use GPS and other technologies to track people anywhere in the world. It also boast predictive capabilities (work out the most likely location the target will go to next). RIOT will basically search, analyse and organise all social network content globally. To see more on RIOT, click here . Note, the RIOT (Raytheon Information Overlay Technology) Content Management Framework development team are Patrick Mao, Ruben Quintero, and Brian Urch.
B. CISPA summarised
The CISPA bill will be the same as the version that passed the House last spring, but which was defeated on the Senate floor in August because the Upper House was hammering out its own cyber security bill. In essence, CISPA will allow for the voluntary sharing of Internet traffic between private companies and the government. CISPA will enable companies to hand over users’ private browsing information to the Government, allowing authorities to spy upon American citizens rather than simply track down cyber threats.
To see how CISPA will affect you, click here .
C. CISPA’s backers
Note that some companies backing CISPA state they represent their member companies – hence, the 800 (e.g. CTIA represents T-Mobile, Sybase, Nokia, and Qualcomm). Some of the links go to a downloadable letter, others to an URL.
06-27-12 – Michigan Department of Military & Veterans Affairs, Lansing Supporting CISPA
04-25-12 – American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Letter to Boehner & Pelosi Supporting CISPA
04-25-12 – American Petroleum Institute Supports CISPA
04-25-12 – 11 Financial Trade Associations Support CISPA
04-24-12 – SIMFA Letter of Support for CISPA
04-23-12 – ASIS Letter Supporting HR 3523
04-23-12 – 9 Utilities Groups Support CISPA
04-20-12 – TechNet Sends Letter of Support for CISPA to Rogers and Ruppersberger
04-18-12 – Multiple Tech Association Letter to Boehner & Pelosi in support of CISPA
04-17-12 – Bay Area Council Supports CISPA
04-17-12 – TechAmericaSupports CISPA
Multi-industry Letter to Speaker Boehner & Minority Leader Pelosi on CISPA :
AT&T, Boeing, BSA, Business Roundtable, CSC, COMPTEL, CTIA – The Wireless Association Cyber, Space and Intelligence Association, Edison Electric, EMC, Exelon, Facebook, The Financial Services Roundtable, IBM, Independent Telephone & Telecommunications Alliance, Information Technology Industry Council, Intel, Internet Security Alliance, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, National Cable & Telecommunications Association, NDIA, Oracle, Symantec, TechAmerica, US Chamber of Commerce, US Telecom – The Broadband Association, Verizon.
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I remember years ago when the country called America was free
Yea, actually America has always sucked.
Scary isn’t it, I feel like the shift happened for me mostly in 2009-2010ish where I went from feeling somewhat oppressed to feeling extremely oppressed, I don’t know how it is where you are from but here I can’t drive a mile down the road without either seeing 3-5 cops or having them tailgate me, pull me over and harass me or watch me hoping to give me a ticket. I love this country and I even signed up to fight for it but lately I don’t feel it’s the same country it once was.
big brother is here !
Come on, it happened in 2001 with the Bush administration and 9/11. That was absolutely the beginning of the end.
You mean you remember when it appeared to you as free, we haven’t been free. Even the founding fathers didn’t have freedom in mind for anyone but them and their gang.
your not entirely right about that
Me too!
Or you thought it was.
I have my doubts our countries ever were free.
It seems like we’re constantly fighting for freedom and getting nowhere.
It’s the Hegelian Dialect in action.
This ain’t free……..Including in the digitial world.
This is ain’t a freer nation under cyber world.
this seems very significant to me and worthy of a lot of thought and protest at all levels.
This is ridiculous and absurd, I don’t wanna live in a country where i cant even look at my friends comments on a forum without prosecution.
Orwell didn’t miss by much did he??? Less then 40 years.
We can fight and resist. Proxies, wifi jumping, borrowed tech. The net is ours and shall remain anonymous to those who seek anonymity.
The world is blind, either we allow ourselves to be led or we learn to see.
This is a sad and scary state of affairs. I remember in World history at the U of M, learning about the “Bad” government that spyed on their own people and the horrible things they put those people through…ie. Consentration Camps.
America has been visiting this sort of thing on the rest of the World for decades with only the voices of dissent coming from an enlightened minority within.
And now that America has decided that its own citizens are /officially/ fair game (were they ever truly not?) everyone’s in a lather about it.
Well, welcome to the world that you created, or at least allowed to be created while you stood by as foreign governments – democratic or otherwise – were undermined by your secret service or trampled by your military. They say you get the government that you deserve and it seems that the same is true of the law too.
The truth is that America has never been free and appears to be poised to become even less so within the coming 48 hours.
Freedom is not served on a silver spoon.
Freedom isn’t free. you have to fight for it.
Everyone seems to agree, that “America ain’t free”. That leaves only one question. What are you willing / and ready to do about it?
It is easy to sit behind a computer and lament, but much harder to stand together and face your problem. Only by standing against this cancer, eating at American, can we fight to cut it out. There is no reward without risk. Standup and fight damnit.
Why keep whining? Find like-minded. Organize. Seek more members. Boycott and a lot of other ideas.
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Facebook chat has gone down completely for the first time in ages… It has begun
Any chance something I can sign against it?
Their knowledge about the internet came only clear as mud and will ruin Socialism and suppress many rights given to us from our founding fathers.
Your “rights” are not “given” by Gov, They are organic, natural, or “God given”.
Governments give you “privileges”. Freeman on the land–learn more on how to beat them with there own rules…Here are some youtube names to research, How to with Dean Clifford, Robert Menard, Winston Shout, Billy Foust(R.I.P.) The bankers are scared…..This is one way to rescind consent and de-fund “Knowledge is powerful!”