Re:Lieberman tells Web users to ‘relax’ about ‘kill switch’
by gojomo on Monday June 21, 2010 @12:07AM
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In an actual war or national emergency, couldn't the president just ask nicely, and get enthusiastic compliance from all the necessary major actors? Why is an explicit new power required?
Isn't it likely that in the event of actual cyber-sabotage, private-sector experts might discover the attacks first, and share countermeasures rapidly among themselves, without any participation of the (slow-moving, often ham-handed) White House and Defense Department?
Might the existence of this bill's new power -- and followup requests to formalize it in automatic systems -- encourage cyberspace national defense planning to over-rely on crude traffic kill commands to the private sector compared to other defense-in-depth?
Isn't it likely that in the event of actual cyber-sabotage, private-sector experts might discover the attacks first, and share countermeasures rapidly among themselves, without any participation of the (slow-moving, often ham-handed) White House and Defense Department?
Might the existence of this bill's new power -- and followup requests to formalize it in automatic systems -- encourage cyberspace national defense planning to over-rely on crude traffic kill commands to the private sector compared to other defense-in-depth?