Originally Posted by Turtlenecks

Alright, who's the ignorant guy that made the Stop CISPA banner at the top of the forums?

It's this sort of fear-mongering that causes people to not bother to do their own research before coming to conclusions. Poor show, Toribash.

Originally Posted by William

I will be reading it, although I did join the protest and shared it on facebook.(yes, assumed toribash knew what it was doing :P).

Originally Posted by William

I just want to ask a question anyway with regarding to this "Intelligence shall establish procedures to allow elements of the intelligence community to share cyber threat intelligence with private-sector entities and utilities and to encourage the sharing of such intelligence."

Does this mainly mean that the intelligence will be able to share their information with companies like facebook, twitter, and other sites to cooperate?

Ok just finished reading most of it, and it is mainly about the quote I posted above right?
If so then I don't see anything wrong with it. They have the information anyway but they want to share it with private entities to inform them about any possible attacks. Am I right?

Originally Posted by ImmortalCow

Bad assumption XD


Yup, the bill is geared towards giving private entities information on threats so they can improve their security - in the same way that Microsoft keeps everyone informed as to what security problems exist.

The bill does not allow facebook to send your private information to anyone - as people seem to think. Not only that, but the information that gov't entities will be sending to private entities is not private data belonging to a person, it's threat data.




I've yet to see any anti-CISPA argument that is more logical than the average anti-gun argument.

Originally Posted by Oracle

I'm not sure if people actually understand what they're talking about when they post in discussion any longer :/ Literally read two posts on the same side of anti-CISPA, yet with mutually exclusive reasoning.

Also, people like to ignore the fact that most of your privacy is already compromised by being on the Internet. Your "private" information would be best kept off of a giant public forum if you want it to be private. The Internet is essentially one giant public forum. A large amount of people have their basic information already on the Internet because of Facebook and other social media websites, and it only takes a quick Google search to get that information, even with "privacy" options enabled on the website. The average password that people use is batshit retarded, and people often use the exact same password for everything they use on the Internet. You instantly lose all "privacy" to your data the instant somebody punches in one of the thousands of retarded passwords that are proven to be used by tech-illiterate people, a.k.a. the majority of the Internet.

Basic point, you don't have privacy on the Internet. Stop bitching about losing it, because you never had it if you put anything about yourself on the Internet.

Originally Posted by Reprav

None of their business.. I think it should be allowed to people only with a serious criminal record. Normal civilians who do not cause trouble should not have to be spied upon.

Originally Posted by BloodMach

Nosy, nosy government.
Freedom of privacy on the internet? Apparently the US government don't give a shit about others, so they'll scrape through a crapton of websites just to check the usual child trafficker.<---One of the only good reasons to do this.