Co-Chair Of Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus Says SOPA Would Interfere With Online Security
from the more-and-more-opposition dept
The opposition in Congress against SOPA continues to grow. The latest is a big one: the co-chair of the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus, Rep. Jim Langevin, has come out against SOPA, stating his fears that the bill would negatively impact "security and openness" online. He noted that it "would interfere with efforts to increase transparency and security online" and specifically noted that it would undermine DNSSEC and similar efforts that "help increase trust online."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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Filed Under: congress, cybersecurity, dns blocking, jim langevin, pipa, protect ip, security, sopa
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I used to have my cynicism in check, but exploring the depths of copyright and patent abuse over the last couple decades has left me with the lowest of expectations.
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With the reaction to SOPA-PIPA we are seeing a small step being taken towards fixing politics in the US. As to why they should begin to care, re-election.
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Say that ten times fast...
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"Rekrul, Jan 9th, 2012 @ 10:09pm
Someone should put that on a billboard outside the Capital."
Not to the article itself.
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Unless of course the next step is to outlaw encryption.
Encryption essentially removes 'man in the middle' (ISP subpoena) as a quick and easy solution.
It would however be a massive blow to the intelligence community to have to deal with an exponentially increased volume of encrypted data to find what they're after.
So yeah, from a cybersecurity point of view it's purty much all bad.
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