How Do You Legislate Fewer Attacks On Homeland Security's Network?
from the it's-called-wishful-thinking dept
While it is a bit troubling that the Department of Homeland Security has had some computer security problems recently, it's difficult to see exactly how that's solved by legislation. But, of course, to politicians with a legislative hammer, every little problem looks like a nail. Thus, we've got politicians proposing cybersecurity legislation that would require Homeland Security to decrease the number of successful cybersecurity attacks against its network. While that's certainly an admirable goal, it's not as if DHS was purposely letting the attacks go through before, and will suddenly shape up just because of this new law.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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great idea
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Now How To Stop Attacks
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Read the article more carefully...
but the legislation is to
decrease the number of _SUCCESSFUL_ attacks.
Always a goal, The politicians are simply reminding DHS of this fact.
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Do you think the DHS will punish themselves for failing to do their job? No. There will be a few lambs for the slaughter, but that will be overshadowed by their cry's of, "to few monetary resources" and "not enough enforcement officers" but don't forget, "we need more laws and powers to enforce the new laws".
If we really feel the need to legislate new laws requiring government agencies to do their job and increase their efficency, the IRS and your local DMV would be great places to start.
Have a wonderful day!
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Unfair!
I'm not an American so I don't know exactly how the government works, but isn't DHS an executive branch, with funding provided by Congress? So isn't this more of a "you have to use the money we're giving you to this end..." rather than an executive order to "Get attacked less"
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Did you read the text of the bill?
Establishing tests will not necessarily reduce the number of successful attacks.
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I don't care
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BE COOL
here's the only laws you will ever need:
1. don't mess with kids
2. don't kill anybody or take anybody's stuff
3. (might be the only one we need) BE COOL. it's not that hard people.
Take care of one another.
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Re: BE COOL
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I've got a bill proposal...
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patchwork solution
We have enough problematic and vague laws on the book.
Instead of creating new problems, we should be dealing with the problems we already have.
If you patch a hole with a leaky patch, it's going to leak.
If you continue to try to stop the leak, with more patches that leak, it's going to leak.
Eventually the patching processes will consume more of your time and resources, and quite possibly make the original item, ungainly and non-functional.
The only people who benefit from this patchwork solution are the people making the patches(elected officials) and doing patch maintenance(lawyers).
Nothing like writing crappy laws while on the government dole, and having 20 years guaranteed income for maintaining said crappy laws.
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