Ah, Washington, land of the power nabbing elite.
Not content with control over banks, auto industry, healthcare industry, wall street, executive pay, and anything else they can get their hands into; Capitol hill is busy drafting (or rather re-drafting) a bill to give the White House control over non-governmental critical infrastructure systems or private computer networks in the case of a “cybersecurity emergency”.
What a “cybersecurity emergency” is exactly I’m not sure anyone knows, neither “critical infrastructure”. From what I can find that’s still a bit vague or not even defined. Of course Washington doesn’t have a history of interpreting a few words to mean “we can do anything we want” or anything do they? I’m sure it’ll be fine, they’ll only do anything if the terrorist, right-wing, ex-military, abortion disliking, Nazi, racist hordes start marching. In the meantime your privacy and personal property will be safe.
As well as being able to do “what’s necessary to respond to the threat”, the bill would give the White House the authority and responsibility to federally certify “cybersecurity professionals," and require some undefined set of private computer systems to be managed by those they deem worthy.
You can find an excerpt of the proposed bill hosted by POLITECH: Politics & Technology.
Via: Bill would give president emergency control of Internet | Politics and Law – CNET News.