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"Under a broad cybersecurity umbrella, it permits companies to share user communications directly with the super secret National Security Agency and permits the NSA to use that information for non-cybersecurity reasons.""This risks turning the cybersecurity program into a back door intelligence surveillance program run by a military entity with little transparency or public accountability."
"Members should seriously consider whether CISPA - which inflamed grassroots activists last year and was under a veto threat for these and other flaws - is the right place to start."
Last October, Obama signed a secret directive. It addressed cyberattack defense. It set guidelines for confronting cyberspace threats. It lets military personnel act more aggressively.
Called Presidential Policy Directive 20, it's "the most extensive White House effort to date to wrestle with what constitutes an 'offensive' and a 'defensive' action in the rapidly evolving world of cyberwar and cyberterrorism, where an attack can be launched in milliseconds by unknown assailants utilizing a circuitous route.""For the first time, (it) explicitly makes a distinction between network defense and cyber operations to guide officials charged with making often rapid decisions when confronted with threats."
The order updates Bush's 2004 presidential directive. It vets operations outside government owned systems.
Fiber operations previously considered offensive (because they go outside defended networks) are now called defensive. They include "severing the link between an overseas server and a targeted domestic computer."
Pentagon officials are expected to finalize new cyberwar rules of engagement. They set guidelines for military commanders. They'll be able to act outside government networks.
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