BruceSchneier
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I have avoided writing about the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), largely because the details kept changing. (For those not following closely, similar bills were passed by both the House and the Senate. They're now being combined into a single bill which will be voted on again, and then almost certainly signed into law by President Obama.)
Now that it's pretty solid, I find that I don't have to write anything, because Danny Weitzner did such a good job, writing about how the bill encourages companies to share personal information with the government, allows them to take some offensive measures against attackers (or innocents, if they get it wrong), waives privacy protections, and gives companies immunity from prosecution.
Information sharing is essential to good cybersecurity, and we need more of it. But CISA is a really a bad law.
This is good, too.
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Now that it's pretty solid, I find that I don't have to write anything, because Danny Weitzner did such a good job, writing about how the bill encourages companies to share personal information with the government, allows them to take some offensive measures against attackers (or innocents, if they get it wrong), waives privacy protections, and gives companies immunity from prosecution.
Information sharing is essential to good cybersecurity, and we need more of it. But CISA is a really a bad law.
This is good, too.
Continue reading...
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