CD120: Cybersecurity For Sale

Congressional Dish

Jennifer Briney

News, Government, Politics

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2016

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

CISA is law; all private companies have immunity for sharing data with the government for "cybersecurity", so what happens now? In this episode, we examine the plans being discussed and implemented by Congress to secure the data stored by the U.S. Government. Please support Congressional Dish: Click here to contribute with PayPal or Bitcoin; click the PayPal "Make it Monthly" checkbox to create a monthly subscription Click here to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Hearing Highlighted in This Episode Cybersecurity: What the Federal Government Can Learn from the Private Sector, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, January 8, 2016. Watch on C-SPAN Watch on YouTube Witnesses John B. Wood, Chairman and CEO of Telos Corporation Larry Clinton, President and CEO of Internet Security Alliance Author of the Cyber-Risk Oversight Handbook, published by the National Association of Corporate Directors and used by the Department of Homeland Security Ken Schneider, Vice President of Technology Strategy at Symantec Corporation Dr. Martin Casado, Senior Vice President and General Manager, VMWare Sound Clip Sources Podcast Episode: Cyber Insurance, Safe Harbor 2.0, and the Human Capital Crisis, The Cybersecurity Podcast, December 3, 2015. News Report: Hacking as a Business Model: Three Indicted in JP Morgan Hack by NBC News and Reuters, November 10, 2015. Podcast Episode: The Half-life of Secrets, A Golden Age of Surveillance, and the US Military's Starship Enterprise, The Cybersecurity Podcast, August 19, 2015. Additional Reading Article: Obama's Cybersecurity Plan Is Meant to Secure His Legacy by P.W. Singer, Wired Magazine, February 10, 2016. Article: OPM Hack: Government Finally Starts Notifying 21.5 Million Victims by James Eng, NBC News, October 1, 2015. Congressional Research Service Report: The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress, September 15, 2014. Executive Order: Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, February 12, 2013. White House website: The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, May 2009. Music Presented in This Episode Intro & Exit: Tired of Being Lied To by David Ippolito (found on Music Alley by mevio) Cover Art Design by Only Child Imaginations

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0:00.0	I am so damn tired of being like to.
0:09.0	I don't think I can't deny it anymore. You can stick to your story if you think it flies. But I'm not going to buy it anymore.
0:31.0	Hey friends, thanks for tuning into the 120th episode of Congressional dish.
0:35.0	I'm your host Jennifer Braney.
0:36.0	So today's episode is a follow-up on a topic that has really become a theme in the 114th Congress, which is Cybersecurity.
0:43.6	In 2015 in the first year of the 114th Congress,
0:46.3	congressional distract three cybersecurity bills,
0:48.7	two that passed the House of Representatives,
0:50.5	and one, CISA that had passed the Senate.
0:53.4	All three bills were disturbing because while the details were different, all three bills gave
0:57.4	immunity to all private companies for sharing information with the government, much of it
1:02.2	automatically. And that information the government, much of it automatically.
1:03.5	And that information the government would then be allowed to use against us in court.
1:07.9	So these three cyber security slash surveillance bills, however you want to interpret them.
1:12.8	We're supposed to be carefully merged into one bill
1:15.4	and then get a final vote in both the House and the Senate.
1:18.4	But instead, a version of the merged bills that we had never seen before
1:22.4	was passed as an attachment to the 2016
1:24.8	government funding bill which was a 2,000 page bill that was created behind closed doors
1:29.8	that was available to read for just a couple of days before it was voted on and it became
1:33.9	law right before Christmas.
1:36.2	This so-called cyber security legislation was buried over 1700 pages deep into the government
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