CISPA about to become law

[Natural Citizen]

CISPA about to become law: we list the companies that back it…and introduce its new friend, ‘RIOT’


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It is reported that the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will become law in less than 48 hours time. Rumour has it that the White House plans to introduce an executive order on cyber security after the State of the Union address on Wednesday. Apparently, the order has been in the works for months, following a spate of cyber espionage and hacking attacks. We wait to see what happens. Meanwhile, we also report that CISPA has a friend, called RIOT (see below for more details and video above). CISPA was combatted by many prominent persons as well as organisations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which played a leading role in the campaign to ensure the bill never became law. Another opponent was the late Aaron Swartz via the Demand Progress organisation. Unlike Swartz, CISPA is very much alive and a threat to all Americans. Around 800 companies have, crucially, provided backing to CISPA (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act)– these are listed below.

A. CISPA’s new friend
To complement CISPA, there is RIOT, the new product from the defence company, Rayethon, and which is featured in the above video. RIOT will use GPS and other technologies to track people anywhere in the world. It also boast predictive capabilities (work out the most likely location the target will go to next). RIOT will basically search, analyse and organise all social network content globally. To see more on RIOT, click here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence) . Note, the RIOT (Raytheon Information Overlay Technology) Content Management Framework development team are Patrick Mao, Ruben Quintero, and Brian Urch.

B. CISPA summarised
The CISPA bill will be the same as the version that passed the House last spring, but which was defeated on the Senate floor in August because the Upper House was hammering out its own cyber security bill. In essence, CISPA will allow for the voluntary sharing of Internet traffic between private companies and the government. CISPA will enable companies to hand over users’ private browsing information to the Government, allowing authorities to spy upon American citizens rather than simply track down cyber threats.
To see how CISPA will affect you, click here (http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57422693-281/how-cispa-would-affect-you-faq/) .

C. CISPA’s backers
Note that some companies backing CISPA state they represent their member companies – hence, the 800 (e.g. CTIA represents T-Mobile, Sybase, Nokia, and Qualcomm). Some of the links go to a downloadable letter, others to an URL.
06-27-12 – Michigan Department of Military & Veterans Affairs, Lansing Supporting CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/Michigan%20support06272012.pdf)
04-25-12 – American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Letter to Boehner & Pelosi Supporting CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/Michigan%20support06272012.pdf)
04-25-12 – American Petroleum Institute Supports CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/APISupportCISPA425.pdf)
04-25-12 – 11 Financial Trade Associations Support CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/FinancialServicesTradesSupportCyberWeek.pdf)
04-24-12 – SIMFA Letter of Support for CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/042412SIMFALtrofSupport.pdf)
04-23-12 – ASIS Letter Supporting HR 3523 (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/ASISLetterSupportingHR3523.pdf)
04-23-12 – 9 Utilities Groups Support CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/0423129UtilitiesGroupsSupportCISPA.pdf)
04-20-12 – TechNet Sends Letter of Support for CISPA to Rogers and Ruppersberger (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/TechNetLetterSupport.pdf)
04-18-12 – Multiple Tech Association Letter to Boehner & Pelosi in support of CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/041812%20TechCybe%20LetterBoehnerPelosi.pdf)
04-17-12 – Bay Area Council Supports CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/041812%20TechCybe%20LetterBoehnerPelosi.pdf)
04-17-12 – TechAmericaSupports CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/041712TechAmericaLetterCISPA.pdf)

Multi-industry Letter to Speaker Boehner & Minority Leader Pelosi on CISPA (http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/MultiIndustryHouseCybersecurityBoehnerPelosi.pdf) :
AT&T, Boeing, BSA, Business Roundtable, CSC, COMPTEL, CTIA – The Wireless Association Cyber, Space and Intelligence Association, Edison Electric, EMC, Exelon, Facebook, The Financial Services Roundtable, IBM, Independent Telephone & Telecommunications Alliance, Information Technology Industry Council, Intel, Internet Security Alliance, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, National Cable & Telecommunications Association, NDIA, Oracle, Symantec, TechAmerica, US Chamber of Commerce, US Telecom – The Broadband Association, Verizon.

[kathy88]

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[CPUd]

You all should start looking into using a VPN service. Bottom line is that if someone wants to see what you're doing badly enough, they will, but with a VPN using strong encryption and no logging, it makes it a real pain in the ass to do so.

This is old, but most of the services are still around:
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

[P3ter_Griffin]

last term the WH said they would veto this bill, now its worthy of an executive order...

[AlexAmore]

You all should start looking into using a VPN service. Bottom line is that if someone wants to see what you're doing badly enough, they will, but with a VPN using strong encryption and no logging, it makes it a real pain in the ass to do so.

This is old, but most of the services are still around:
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

Call me super paranoid but I've always thought those privacy systems were just government nets to narrow down and pin point people.

[ZENemy]

You all should start looking into using a VPN service. Bottom line is that if someone wants to see what you're doing badly enough, they will, but with a VPN using strong encryption and no logging, it makes it a real pain in the ass to do so.

This is old, but most of the services are still around:
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

Hiding from them only validates what they do and compels them to take MORE action. Its time we take a stand, period, otherwise, we all just might as well stop resisting and give into tyranny here and now.

[jbauer]

You all should start looking into using a VPN service. Bottom line is that if someone wants to see what you're doing badly enough, they will, but with a VPN using strong encryption and no logging, it makes it a real pain in the ass to do so.

This is old, but most of the services are still around:
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

A VPN is only as good as the VPN service. If the VPN does ANY record keeping then all it does is slow "them" down.

[CPUd]

VPNs are not just about hiding from the Man. If you are out in open WiFi, anyone in range can see what you are doing, including sniffing your sessions while you make purchases (not recommended to be doing on open WiFi anyway), and performing actions on your behalf. On an encrypted WiFi connection or at your ISP, someone could tap into their equipment and see the unencrypted packets, and do about the same as if it were wide open.

If you are on a VPN, that data would be encrypted all the way from your machine to the VPN provider. The only thing the ISP can see is that you have an encrypted session to 1 location. They would have to be at the physical location of the VPN provider, or at your end to see the unencrypted data. And if you have a VPN provider like PRQ.to, those guys have a bigass vault in Sweden cut into the side of a mountain. Many VPN providers are flexible with their payment system, they accept LR, Bitcoin and prepaid cards.

[KerriAnn]

VPNs are not just about hiding from the Man. If you are out in open WiFi, anyone in range can see what you are doing, including sniffing your sessions while you make purchases (not recommended to be doing on open WiFi anyway), and performing actions on your behalf. On an encrypted WiFi connection or at your ISP, someone could tap into their equipment and see the unencrypted packets, and do about the same as if it were wide open.

If you are on a VPN, that data would be encrypted all the way from your machine to the VPN provider. The only thing the ISP can see is that you have an encrypted session to 1 location. They would have to be at the physical location of the VPN provider, or at your end to see the unencrypted data. And if you have a VPN provider like PRQ.to, those guys have a bigass vault in Sweden cut into the side of a mountain. Many VPN providers are flexible with their payment system, they accept LR, Bitcoin and prepaid cards.
Do you know of any free vpn services that are trustworthy?

[CPUd]

Do you know of any free vpn services that are trustworthy?

Not anymore. There used to be, but having them free invited a lot of abuse.

It is possible to build your own for free, though. OpenVPN is open-source: http://openvpn.net/

It's not a provider, but the VPN software itself. A typical use case for the average user would be to have it running on a desktop at the house, with a public-facing IP. Suppose the connection from the home desktop to the WWW is a trusted connection.

Then the user could be in an area with open WiFi, and make the VPN connection same as they would do any other VPN provider, but the other end would be at the desktop at home. The user can now make sensitive financial transactions, etc., as if the user were sitting at the desktop.

[WarAnonymous]

Hiding from them only validates what they do and compels them to take MORE action. Its time we take a stand, period, otherwise, we all just might as well stop resisting and give into tyranny here and now.

This

[Natural Citizen]

Call me super paranoid but I've always thought those privacy systems were just government nets to narrow down and pin point people.

Yep. Not only that, it serves for use later on so that they can come in and say that their technology is obsolete in thwarting it and perhaps usher in this sort of reconfig.

[osan]

You all should start looking into using a VPN service. Bottom line is that if someone wants to see what you're doing badly enough, they will, but with a VPN using strong encryption and no logging, it makes it a real pain in the ass to do so.

This is old, but most of the services are still around:
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/

Onion routers.

[CPUd]

Onion routers.

Don't mistake anonymity for privacy. If you're using their open network, anyone can set their machine to be an endpoint and see everything you do.

[Natural Citizen]

There's really no such thing as anonymity on the www anyhow. If people think there is then they are foolish.