CISPA

Today I offended Lord’s day buy reading “hardcore” law text defining CISPA. The content seems pretty unharmfull for citizens to some extent. And then comes the paragraph with the definition of cyber threat which follows (Sec. 3):

‘(4) CYBER THREAT INFORMATION-

‘(A) IN GENERAL- The term ‘cyber threat information’ means information directly pertaining to—

‘(i) a vulnerability of a system or network of a government or private entity or utility;

‘(ii) a threat to the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of a system or network of a government or private entity or utility or any information stored on, processed on, or transiting such a system or network;

‘(iii) efforts to deny access to or degrade, disrupt, or destroy a system or network of a government or private entity or utility; or

‘(iv) efforts to gain unauthorized access to a system or network of a government or private entity or utility, including to gain such unauthorized access for the purpose of exfiltrating information stored on, processed on, or transiting a system or network of a government or private entity or utility.

-> When reading this definitions we start to feel the lobbying that hides in the back of CISPA; At first the main concern is the Security of the USA state and now we shift to any “private entity” or “utility”. That is what CISPA seems to be really about, the protection of private interests, bacause I cannot believe that the USA government institutions cannot defened them selves under current law. It seems that this text tries to fool the people and the congressmen, pretending to defend motherland USA.

Reference: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr624/text