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The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a cybersecurity bill that calls for beefing up training, research, and coordination so the government can be better prepared to deal with cyberattacks.
The Cyber Security Research and Development Act of 2009, which passed by a vote of 422 to 5, authorizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a cybersecurity education program that can help consumers, businesses, and government workers keep their computers secure.
It also creates cybersecurity scholarship programs for college students and research centers, and asks NIST to boost development of identity management systems used to control access to buildings, computer networks, and data.
Excellent news, a little late for some people but welcome none the less. A tiny investment by any standards, which will pay back the US tax payer many times, over many years. My only gripe is why are the clowns who left exploitable systems, still in business?
Why don’t they come out and be honest? It’s the Big Brother Act of 2010 but no one want’s to say it.
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Good comments.
But I wonder HOW they got this bad.
There are many that would give them the INFO for free, as well as work to FIX 1/2 of it.
The few problems thay have..
Strange OS systems that they DONT want compatible with anything, EXCEPT some ASSHOLE suggested WINDOWS. And all the HOLES that came with it. FORGETTING that hardware is also susceptible..
WHO remembers that HAYES and USR used to make PROPRIETARY modems for banks and security firms?? You could mod them to the point you were talking in MORSE CODE.
The problem is the INTERNET, and the IDIOTS that think a BUSINESS/security based computer CAN RUN on it and not be vulnerable..
What a crock. Wait and see what kinds of people they end up giving scholarships or other funding to. We are a lost country. People think being tech savvy is knowing how to launch their i Tunes app on an iPhone. Pathetic. Like the average congressman knows enough about such things to even understand what is in the bill.
In general, anyone talking about “cybersecurity” probably doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s a buzzword, signifying nothing.
When the person talks about specific protection measures instead, they probably are knowledgeable.
Let me guess….
a few large military-industrial complex corporations are going to get millions of dollars contracts to produce a power point presentation telling you to turn on your firewall and use a good password.
COMPLETE waste of money.
why dont they just sit in on a black hat convention?
You do realize “research” law allows our government to experiment on the public without consent, knowledge or “real” publication? This is how the HAARP array works.
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Dont connect critical data to the net.
Dont even THINK about making a “smart grid” -ever. (esp w/X-class flares coming within 5-7 years or less)
Hardware Firewalls (anal: desigm/manufacture all your PCB, chips and circuits in-house)
Surf in a VM. (or at least a sandbox-sandboxie?)
Drop your rights to bare minimum. (something akin to “DropMyRights”)
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We need more physicists and electronic engineers. -not more cyberidiots.
a nation of cyberpunks wont do us any good when it comes time to start building resonant coil power units.
we’ll all be staring at the design on the screen thinking, “is there anyone left *in* the country that can build this?”
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This will be used as a means to deny us access to each other (censorship), and a way to spy on our web usage, too.
Nothing good can come of it….
Ok,
any 16 year old BASIC hacker can tell you what you need.
ANY one that has been dealing with hardware software more then 20 years, can tell you WHAT/WHY you need certain things, and HOW to protect yourself, and it WONT cost you $$$,$$$,$$$..
The MAIN problem is making it ALL work together.
ANd WINDOWS wont do it.
The weakest link is always going to be the human because even smart humans will occasionally do something that is stunningly stupid.
Dumb humans produce stupid at an industrial scale.
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Agreed..
But you can protect yourself from your OWN idiocy..
Having a separate system, and THAT system auto Scans ANYTHING 10 times, before it even allows INPUT media to be used would really make things FUN.
only a few persons with privilege to ALLOW software to be mounted.
Another point against MS is to LOCK UP THE OS, so added things CANT CHANGE THINGS.
Sounds like a tremendous idea to me — I look forward to their efforts and plan to give a long look to their educational products.