Censor The Internet?? introducing CISPA

[newjason]

Last week in a thread -->  Newt or Mitt VS Obama.

I proposed as an example what can and will happen if We do not pay attention to what is going on in Washington DC.

===============ATTENTION========================================

Next week, Google, along with it's advertisers, sponsors,  and Data collection Firms, have been awarded the Government Contract for the new
UNIVERSAL CLEAN INTERNET INTEROPERABILITY COLLECTIVE
or
UCIIC

This new legislation will revolutionize the way we communicate over the internet and across all data networks. 
from this point forward,  when you log on to the internet,  you and all of your data will be re - directed through a special proxy network where your activities will be preformed in a secure area and will be monitored and if needed, censored to make a better safer experience for all Americans. 

Google will be introducing the new IRONFIST Browser, it will feature targeted ADS, specific to you and your habits.
 All of your personal information will be given to Google and Kept safely In their network Databases. This information will be evaluated continually by google and reported to the Government for future evidence and creation of your specific profile. 

This IRONFIST browser will be the most beneficial tool for everyone, as it will  be the Only Browser that will be able to access the New Internet.

If you attempt to access the New Internet with any other browser, it will no longer work, as Google
has worked with the Government and re-written all the networking Protocalls, forming a Standard that will be the best for Everyone. 

If you are caught tampering with IRONFIST, Google.s New Internet, its proxies, or protocalls, You will be arrested immediately and punished with a $1000 fine and 90 days Collecting Personal Information from your fellow Americans. 
......
Since all existing network technologies will no longer function on the New Internet, all existing data shall be come the property of the US government, Google, and the Original owner of the content, It will be archived and stored automatically, and over the transition period, will become obsolete and no longer needed by our Citizens and will be conveniently destroyed for you.
Since Google IRON uses Data collection and censoring technologies and sends data to real-time monitoring stations,  there now will be only one web site  called  Social-Space  and will be your only source for all your New Internet activities.

......

Of course this was a dramatization and is not real.

It would appear that I was not far off with my prediction....

introducing CISPA      Cyber  Intelegence Share Protection   Act

The language in CISPA is worded so broadly that it could be interpreted to allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and companies such as Google and Facebook to intercept your messages and transmit them to the government.

Yes that's right.

CENSORSHIP IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER





Read more here

mashable.com/2012/04/08/could-cispa-be-the-next-sopa/


Pay attention to this if you do not want the US Government to have the power to CENSOR what you enjoy here on RWD and the rest of your on line activities.

So what can we all do about this??

You can write US Lawmakers directly
act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa/

I will post more links to on-line anon petitions as they become available.



My Position on this matter:
While I agree internet Piracy is a problem, I think It should be dealt with in a way that does not destroy innocent people and companies in the process.
Pirates use many different means to illegallly distribute copyrighted content. Does that mean that the conduits and service providers are guilty of Piracy?  Of course not, But in this new BILL they in fact would be just as guilty as the pirates.  This whole amputation mentality currently in the US Government has got to be changed. 
It makes much more sense for content providers to secure their own source material before they release it into an environment where copying data is part of the protocall and is in fact a core of every function performed these days.  Digital Content producers have been LAZY at protecting their products and because they have basicly ignored DRM and other locking technologies, Now they cry Foul when they have created this situation in the first place.  If BIG Hollywood Studios want to be paid for every work they release, THEY need to secure it, and use a Pay technology so everyone can enjoy it at a fair price, without having to go through a big hassle.

The entertainment Industry is not keeping up, and they need to get with the program and secure the content before it's released, This is going to mean inventing and developing ideas from the ground up, and most likely will take many years to implement and many more to be accepted by the consumers.

As far as I am concerned, If you leave your doors open, and leave your entertainment system on, you should not be surprised when people start to come sit in your yard and start enjoying it for free.
The solution is simple, charge admisssion. 

If CISPA passes, not only will the people watching from your yard be punished, you, your Television manufacturer companies will all be taken away without any kind of due process what so ever. 


What do you want the US Government to do?

[tfcrew]

What do you want the US Government to do?

Dissolve itself & call for a new constitutional congress....    

[mendeleyev]

Great information!

Part of this is a revisit of a previous plan that when it became public, members of Congress beat a retreat and shelved the bill.

Now it is back, and it is still ugly.

Part of the issue is security but that is a Trojan horse.

- Large ISPs want a two-tier internet, local and paid. Think of it as a large 12 lane Autobahn and next to it a small one lane "feeder road." The feeder road is lower cost and mostly local. To truly be on the world wide web you must pay more as a consumer to surf/drive on the www.

- Large ISPs have in mind a very different paid ranking model than what we have today. If you own a business, you'll have to pay for your position ranking. But it is much different that what we have now. How much you pay for an ad will determine whether your business stays on the feeder road or gets to move up to the Autobahn highway. As a consumer the website you search for may not be available to you because you're on the lower tier or because the business is on the lower tier. The ISP would have the ability to redirect your search to a higher ranking website. This is very different from what we enjoy today.

- The government likes this idea because it can control big business and get more information about citizens even more quickly. The new revenues you pay as a consumer, and businesses pay for the new ranking model, will be shared/taxed as a new revenue stream for big government.

[Darth_Budda]

Dissolve itself & call for a new constitutional congress....

+ 10

[calmissile]

What worries me is..... Is this just a ruse to the true objective of the Federal and State governments to tax transactions made on the internet?

[newjason]

well well well.
I think the Untited States people better pull their heads out of the sand.
This is just unreal.


http://on.rt.com/hvjng7



BREAKING NEWS

CISPA passes House in unexpected last-minute vote

Published: 27 April, 2012, 02:54


The House of Representatives has approved CISPA with a vote count of 248-168. The bill is now headed for the Senate. President Barack Obama will be able to sign or cancel it pending Senate approval.
Initially slated to vote on the bill Friday, it decided to pass it Thursday after approving a number of amendments.
The snap vote took place after Congressional legislators approved a number of amendments to CISPA. Apart from cyber and national security purposes, the bill would now allow the government to use private information obtained through CISPA for the investigation and prosecution of “cybersecurity crime,” protection of individuals and the protection of children. The new clauses define “cybersecurity crime” as any crime involving network disruption or hacking.
“Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cyber security bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a 'cybersecurity crime.' Basically it says the Fourth Amendment does not apply online, at all,” Techdirt's Leigh Beadon said.
CISPA was introduced in the House last November.  Since then, a number of amendments have been adopted. Critics chided the bill, saying its broad wording could allow the government to spy on individual Internet users and block websites that publish vaguely defined ‘sensitive’ data.
"[CISPA] doesn’t really have any protections against cyber threats, all it does is make people share their information. But that’s not going to solve the problem. What’s going to solve the problem is actual security measures, protecting the service in the first place, not spying on people after the fact," Internet activist Aaron Swartz told RT.
The White House issued a statement Wednesday saying President Barack Obama would be advised to veto the bill if he receives it.
However, CISPA was backed by a number of big companies, including AT&T, Microsoft, Boeing, Verizon and Facebook.

It just goes to show you,  no one is going to have your back if you are falsely accused of anything any more.  No more due process, no more innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
That shit is gone  if bill becomes law.

But, aparently that is what the american people want, because they elected these represenatives

it's another sad day in history
that someday when all the freedoms are gone and no one will be able to think for himself without breaking the law, we will look back at how he got to that point and how ignorance and apathy are the biggest enemy of America.

[newjason]

To all of you who think this a bunch of hoey....

Take a few minutes and read the bill for yourself.  It's a mere 18 pages.  I read it in ten minutes. It will probably take you less.

http://rules.house.gov/media/file/PDF_112_2/LegislativeText/CPRT-112-HPRT-RU00-HR3523.pdf



Then if you want to act before it's too late...


act.demandprogress.org/letter/cispa/

you will need to give a valid email adress and your name.
Does that concern you?
Well it doesn't matter if this bill passes, you will have to give it to EVERY place on the internet and agree to be tracked and monitored for possible "hacking and network disruption"  If they find a reason you are breaking this law, you are in violation of the protection of children clause and immediately arrested and all your belongings confiscated.

I am not normally one to participate in political mumbo jumbo cause it really doesn't affect me.

This is different and you should act before you loose that right as well.

http://www.cdt.org/cispa-resource-page

[Shadow]

The scary thing is that this does not only concern US citizens, but applies worldwide.
While I am in favour of being able to easily punish those who disrupt online services (been hit by them more than once) there must be another way as through giving up our freedom.

With CISPA in effect, the US will no longer have the right to criticise China or Iran, as their own law will go further.

[newjason]

That is correct Shadow.
This law makes it legal for the us government to store and monitor all of your internet activities for two (2) years.  If you think internet security (or insecurity) is bad now, this will make the internet we use today seem like a distant memory.

I guess  don't understand why the us government want's to cut off the entire population in the name of security when a few bad apples do some cheesy cyber attack on poorly designed and un protected network systems.

Is it MY Fault that Facebook has a flawed design and has so many open security hole to exploit?
No, it is not, and it's not yours either. But the US Government will punish users who they suspect are doing "questionable activities" on their network.


This comes at an especially bad time for me personally , as my  E mail accounts have been Spoofed together, making  a hotmail address seem like it is coming from my yahoo address.  Thus sending spam to all in my address book..
Several hours I have been studying this Spoofing by spammers and I find out there is not anything I can do about it.
Short of opening new accounts and hoping it doesn't happen again.
8 years of archived y!mail and 3 years of skydrive files are gone if that is my only option.

Because it's so easy to spoof an email  From: Field and Reply To: Feild to make it appear that it is being sent from your mail account, all one needs to do, is have someone with a linked account open his own email message.   My mistake was opening a message  that was from "the hotamail team"   " how to keep your hot mail inbox free from spam"   A little ironic i'd say sadly.

If no one cares about freedom any more, then I guess that is the way it will be.



I just do not want to hear the crying of those who will complain that they did nothing when they had the chance, and claim they didn't know..

The vote on this bill was slated for Friday - today.  But in a special session they rammed it through on Thursday instead, so not 1 person could object on the floor.   
Makes for a nice easy passing of a bill wouldn't you say?

[Shadow]

There are some things you can do if someone you know received a spoofed e-mail.
Usually it is a single attack, and deleting the junk will be enough. Do not forget to change your password, add a specific signature and notify your contacts what to look for.

In fact if someone has not protected the server, an e-mail address can be spoofed by just entering it in the fields. No need to open a link, if the sender has an SMTP server that accepts sending without verification.

[newjason]

Thanks for the advice Shadow.

Read more about the password stealing Issue here
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/04/27/microsoft-rushes-out-fix-after-hackers-change-passwords-to-hack-hotmail-accounts/

This has been a real pain in my @ss.
I changed my password 4 different times, and each time, I again had some one in my account sending spam.  I thought the  problem finally stopped , only after I used a pass generator to make a password string
of 20 charachter  ( letters ( caps and lowercase) + numbers + special chars )..

Well, that did not help because they were intercepting the secret question and changing it  with a firefox ext called Tamper Data.  I did a little research , as Microsoft was NO HELP at all.

Luckily I must have had a "nice" hacker, as they never changed my password, but only used my account for sending spam and messages  saying I was stuck in England, had no money and asking them to send $2500 to pay my hotel bill and send please send the money via western union to some one in Nigeria.

So I had to get a little creative and use some un-advertised settings deep in the hotmail settings loops. It seems to have worked,  for now and I haven't had any hacker activity for 4 days.

This is a perfect example why we should not let CISPA pass.  My account along with 13 million other hotmail users was put on "hold" for suspicious activity. This qualifies as "network disruption" and under the new CISPA bill, I would be subject to fines and arrest.
I think that is BULLSHEET!

If you agree, write to your senator!
Tell them not to vote yes on CISPA.






If anyone else has had this happen and can't get a response from hotmail or it's customer service department,  you can PM me and I will give you a step by step fix for this.

stay safe out there.

Jason