Civil Liberties Organizations Launch Protests Against CISPA

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As Chairman of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence Rep. Mike Rogers says, “There are two types of companies left in America; those that have been hacked and know it, and those that have been hacked and don’t know it.” Personally, I’m willing to risk giving the U.S. government more flexibility in protecting us from foreign threats, with strong and transparent oversight by our elected representatives. When our government behaves badly and betrays our trust, we can elect a new one and throw guilty government officials in jail. When a foreign government behaves badly, stealing our secrets and intellectual property, we have little recourse but to defend ourselves or risk losing all we have. http://ewross.com/cybersecurity_vs_cybervampires_the_lesser_of_two_evils.htm

EWRoss of VA 11:22AM April 29, 2012

CISPA has just been amended by it's authors. Formerly one of the more problematic clauses read...
(B) theft or misappropriation of private or government information, intellectual property, or personally identifiable information.
Which was changed over the weekend to this...
(B) efforts to gain unauthorized access to a system or network, including efforts to gain such unauthorized access to steal or misappropriate private or government information
Which removes the "theft" and "private information" and "intellectual property" claims, and narrows the bill to unauthorized access... which was supposedly its original intent.
It's better but still has issues.
See: http://www.iSights.org/

Michael Long of NE 2:50PM April 16, 2012