Constituents may vote, but lobbyists pay the bills.
Remember when EFF sued AT&T for [letting the NSA wiretap their Internet backbone facilities][1]? Congress killed the lawsuit by retroactively granting immunity under the FISA Amendments Act.
CISA is just the same thing, but for newer programs like PRISM, and tech companies want the immunity because they're otherwise being exposed to major liability.
Personally, I think a better idea would be to reform Section 702 of FISA to ban programs like PRISM. The government should be required to get a warrant when they want to look at private data.
We need security that my mother can understand. dad had a top secret clearance so mom understands why she needs to shred paper documents.
ive had no such luck explaining to her how to maintain her privacy with her imac.
That's all I can think of too after reading Daniel Suarez' "Influx." With the resources and information at their disposal I would not put it past them to take this approach.
That raises the question of how we can change the system if we have to assume some sort of blackmail like that might be taking place. Is there a workaround?
I was amazed that this story had such short legs. It seems like a big deal to me, a really big deal.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/24/hackers-sto...
So, why does the Senate keep trying to crank up this sort of thing? They need to be a little answerable to their constituency, they need to exhibit a little leadership in terms of not just blindly following party leadership and lobbyists.
Is this whole category of law a place where the DoJ has intercepted enough sketchy conversations that they've got leverage against key Senators and Reps? That's the only thing I can think of, other than the "intelligence community" is flat out lying in the secure sessions. Since the "intelligence community" has a long history of lying, with a lot of recent scandalous reveals, you'd think that oversight committees would be a lot less willing to just believe.
So, I'm torn. Why does this keep popping up?