[governance] Internet Kill switch bill to be trojan-horsed

[jefsey]

This kind of bill, which actually progressively builds a national 
cybersecurity force seems in normal (if not delayed) line with the 
regalian duty of protection/defense of its country. It is to expect 
that most of the Govs, if not all, will progressively carry their 
duty in this area, more or less under the leading powers e-umbrellas 
(e-colonization). What is of interest here is the inclusion of the 
economic protection aspects. However, the real today world war is 
played in the standardization field by "internationalization" of 
national technicocomercial cultures.

In that sense the Tunis agreement and the recent response the IAB 
gave to my appeal, would mean together a significant and surprising 
disengagement of the USA from the control of the Internet of the 
future. Therefore, I feel that we will have a result a 
military/industrial reposed in coming months/years, may be through a 
new ISOC kind of influence and an ARPA project to replace IETF as a 
technical influence leader. This Agency could be a good way to start 
influencing the technology to become more secure, architecturally and 
operationally.

As usual innovation is incremental, disruptive or architectural. One 
could say now that IETF's is incremental, US Gov's is disruptive 
being a leader in the area, and users' is architectural. CS should 
consider the impact on society and cultures (none of them being 
small) of these three attitudes.

jfc

At 04:06 30/08/2010, Paul Lehto wrote:
>The text of the bill is proposed to be a law amending the Homeland
>Security Act entitled "'Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act
>of 2010.''
>
>Sources say they plan to have it inserted into a defense authorization
>bill.  It defines the supervision of a new agency to include not only
>"continuous situational awareness" of the "federal information
>infrastructure" including but not limited to the national security
>apparatus, but also awareness, data, and intervention authority to
>"isolate" remediate, terminate (for a time) or take other action
>regarding the class of "national information" infrastructure, in
>addition to "Federal information infrastructure."
>
>In turn, the 'national information' infrastructure is defined as
>consisting of everything "(A)(i) that is owned, operated, or
>controlled within or from the United States; or (ii) if located
>outside the United States, the disruption of which could result in
>national or regional catastrophic damage in the United States; and (B)
>that is not owned, operated, controlled, or licensed for use by a
>Federal agency.
>
>So once again the USA takes a broad extraterritorial view on what it
>can intervene in, and includes "prevention" among the possible motives
>for action involving things outside US borders on the grounds that
>they might impact US interests.  Preemptive action or preemptive
>cyberwar, if you will.  The Director of Cyberspace Policy is to be
>notified not just of national security threats, but any event
>concerning "the national information infrastructure that could
>compromise or significantly affect *economic* or national security"
>clearly indicating that the scope here is broad, and not at all
>limited to national security projects, nor limited to US controlled
>assets or US citizens.
>
>
>
>On 8/29/10, Michael Gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is this common knowledge? I haven't seen it reported elsewhere....
> >
> > 
> http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/0828/congress-internet-kill-switch-defense-b
> > ill
> >
> > M
> >
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