Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., hopes to pass his Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom...
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., hopes to pass his Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act, S-413, before he leaves office in 2012, the Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman said in a speech Thursday evening to the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council…
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(HSDBC). The legislation gained attention for its so-called “kill switch” provision, which critics claimed would give the President the authority to shut down the Internet in a national emergency -- Lieberman ended up changing it to explicitly forbid the president or “any other officer or employee of the federal government” from doing so (WID Feb 22 p9). In his speech Lieberman reaffirmed his belief that the Department of Homeland Security is the best organization to lead the government’s cybersecurity efforts to secure civilian domains. But he said the agency should do so by “leveraging -- not replicating -- the expertise that already exists in the federal government, and particularly in the National Security Agency.” The NSA’s role in the U.S. cybersecurity effort has become a divisive issue for digital rights groups who said they are wary of giving the agency broad access to consumers’ Internet histories. Lieberman also urged federal agencies to lead by example and use their purchasing power to “prod technology companies to produce more secure products, which would then be available to businesses and consumers.”