President Obama Is Waging a War on Hackers

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President Obama Is Waging a War on Hackers
BY ROB GRAHAM
http://www.wired.com/2015/01/president-obama-waging-war-hackers/?mbid=social_fb

Sounds like a short sighted, dumb move.

[Computergeek01]

Obama’s proposals come from a feeling in Washington D.C. that more needs to be done about hacking in response to massive data breaches of the last couple years.

Translation: Someone in Washington received an offer from Sony for a do nothing job after their term in office and they threw a tantrum to secure it. So the solution is to make more laws, against things that are already illegal, that only serve to confuse the issue for the majority of people who have no idea what they are talking about.

The "problem" of catching hackers isn't with loop holes in the legal system, it's that they can't actually catch them. The Feds are pissed because a private security firm caught the guy that hit Sony while they were running around screaming about North Korea. So they think that new laws will somehow magically make them all more competent.

These laws aren't going to change anything, except to make things more difficult for the 1% of script kiddies that they manage to catch.

[Cheraphy]

They've also used the recent attack to push CISPA again. And it's literally exactly as fucking terrible as it was the last time it reared it's ugly head.


edit: side note. While the American libertarian movement has taken the Boston tea party as a symbol of rejecting taxation by our founders, it was much more than that. It was about unfair tax breaks to a major international business.

King George gave the East Indian Trading company a free ride on their tea when selling to the colonies and jacked up taxes on domestic tea product in the colonies. Making it cheaper to buy tea from the EIT than it would be to buy locally.

So, no. The boston tea-party was not just about unfair taxes. It was not about the founders believing that taxation was theft. It was about their government giving a handout to a very wealthy orginization. Which is exactly what the high profile politician supporters of the libertarian movement push for when they scratch the backs of the of lobbyists who line their bank account.