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Date: Mon Apr 20 2009 - 01:33:06 CDT

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http://gcn.com/articles/2009/04/20/cybereye-security-bill.aspx

By William Jackson
GCN.com
April 17, 2009

The Senate should take a close look at a comprehensive and far-reaching
cybersecurity bill that attempts to assign responsibilities for better
protecting the nation’s critical information infrastructure.

Based on a working draft of the legislation, there are some good ideas
in the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced by John “Jay” Rockefeller
IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and
Transportation Committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). But there also
are some quixotic elements and a few provisions so far-reaching that
they could effectively turn the Internet within the United States into a
state-controlled medium.

The most troubling provisions would let the president order the
disconnection of any federal information system or privately owned
critical infrastructure component for undefined reasons of national
security.

The bill, S.773, was introduced April 1 and referred to Rockefeller’s
committee. It probably should remain there until the 60-day review of
the nation’s cybersecurity policies ordered by President Obama has been
digested.

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