Uber-State CyberCops Coming to a Computer Near You

I know you've all heard about this. But my day wouldn't be complete it I didn't bash the Øbamasshole over this amazing suggestion...don't think for a moment his regime's hacks weren't involved in this beauty up to their eyeballs:

Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet

Is there a human being on the planet over 10 who didn't see this shit coming?

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill."

I could be wrong...but I'd call that the understatement of the friggin' year...

Oh...and could Olympia Snowe be any more of a tool?

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