Saturday, February 19, 2011

This Should Be Interesting

A bipartisan trio of senators [Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Tom Carper (D-DE) and Susan Collins (R-ME)] has introduced a new cybersecurity bill that eliminates the president's authority to switch off the Internet.

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The measure states that "neither the president, the director of the National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications, nor any other officer or employee of the federal government should have the authority to shut down the Internet."

  Raw Story

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