All Your Privacy Are Belong to Us - Comments Page 2

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government...": Declaration of Independence.

Slippery slope; trading privacy for safety. This is America; where the rules and laws are supposed to protect our freedom; not reduce it.

Ben Franklin said something along the lines of "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security."

As I've often told close relatives, the safest place for your thoughts is inside your head. It is a shame that the freedoms we have enjoyed are eroding.

I guess it's a sign of our old age Bob when the readers of your columns no longer recognize the old "standards" like Zero Wing's "All your base" reference. Let me sit down here on the porch in my rocking chair and start a game of shuffleboard (on my tablet computer, of course...).

And the advice offered by others here is probably the best. If you don't want something to haunt you for the rest of your life, don't post it on the 'net.

Thanks for the title explanation (in the yellow box under Your Tax Dollars At Work). I've seen "All your ... are belong to us!" many times, but didn't know it's origin.

Dumb, dumb and really dumb Congressional people!!!

Congress thinks, that inacting this law, it would stop all of the hacking, in the USA - Dumb, dumb and really dumb!!! Why not just take care of the security of the DOD, the State Dept., the DOJ, so on and so forth???!!!

No, these stupids Congressmen/women, to the max, make a law that blows holes in the Computer Savvy security methods. All of this, because of a couple of tech smart congressional aides, who think they really know ALL about computer security and hacking. Again, dumb, dumb and really dumb!!!

Who did these dumb Congressional Senators and Representatives ASK, to get this law??? I bet, they only asked one, maybe two, hackers. Hackers is where you want to know, how they do it and what can help to MINIMIZE these attacks.

Now, major business's hire hackers for their security issues. This has helped save a lot of DoS attacks for their business's. However, the hackers get smarter and smarter everyday, so, attacks and invasions, still occur. I guess, the dumb Congressional people, don't get it.

Bottom line, the USPS is bankrupted, Amtrak is bankrupt and so are almost any program or business that the US Government owns, bankrupt! Cyber Security will also, be a complete bust!!!

Help readers help themselves when it comes to items before the Congress TELL THEM the bill number so that they find the bill and read it, and also track its movement through the process leading to passage or failure. In this case the bill being considered is ---
S.754 - Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 114th Congress (2015-2016)

about which full info about the bill itself can be found at
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

This CISA provision is the exception to the general rule of compromise when considering bills/laws. If you loved 99.9% of the bill, this one provision should have been enough to say NO. Very disappointed in Congress.

Even more disappointed that our Watchdog, the press, didn't yell and scream in unison about it. There was some coverage, but not near what it should have been.