Networks have been under attack — and successfully handled by operators — as long as they’ve been around. Be wary of calls for more government supervision of the Internet.Over the past few weeks, there has been a steady drumbeat of alarmist rhetoric about potential threats online. At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this month, chairman Carl Levin said that “cyberweapons and cyberattacks potentially can be devastating, approaching weapons of mass destruction in their effects.”The increased consternation began with the suspected Chinese breach of Google’s servers earlier this year. Since then, press accounts, congressional pronouncements, and security industry talk have increasingly sown panic about an amorphous cyberthreat.
www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0429/Cyberattacks-Washington-is-hyping-the-threat-to-justify-regulating-the-Internet
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100429/cm_csm/297733_1Also see:us: Rockefeller seeks to reassure on cybersecurity bill
Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Thursday attempted to assuage industry concerns over the scope of his panel’s cybersecurity bill, saying the legislation does not seek to give the government new emergency powers or the authority to dictate business operations.”Let me be very clear: When it comes to cybersecurity, the familiar ‘regulation versus leave-it-to-the-market’ debate that always dominates discussions between the government and the private sector is a dangerous false choice,” Rockefeller said in his written remarks at the Business Software Alliance’s 2010 Cybersecurity Forum.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100429_6545.php
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2010/04/rockefeller-seeks-to-reassure.php
Cyberattacks: Washington is hyping the threat to justify regulating the Internet
Networks have been under attack — and successfully handled by operators — as long as they’ve been around. Be wary of calls for more government supervision of the Internet.