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> legal immunity for violating ... laws [when working] with the government Aka, a Letter Of Marque[1]. Facebook wants to be a modern privateer. Selling plunder

by pdkl95 11y ago

> legal immunity for violating ... laws [when working] with the government Aka, a Letter Of Marque[1]. Facebook wants to be a modern privateer. Selling plundered data and reputation is less violent than the cargo that was traditionally the target of privateering, but it's still government-backed piracy. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque edit: Wow. +5 to -1. That's more than the usual number of people using down-votes as a substitute for rebuttal.

arkem 11y ago
It's really not. CISA is a vehicle for the distribution of Indications of Compromise and other standard infosec threat intelligence between Government entities as well as the public and large corporations. The liability protections are completely reasonable if private companies were going to participate at all. The privacy protections built in are also much more thorough than I was expecting in a bill of this nature. Really the only thing that really worries me about is that the things that the Government is allowed to do with shared information includes "identifying the use of an information system by a foreign adversary or terrorist". Which seems a little too broad for my tastes. In fact, I was on the CISA hate train but after reading it I feel that it's an entirely inoffensive law and my outrage has fizzled into indifference. I'm not going to lose sleep if this passed nor if it isn't but likening it to a Letter of Marque is not warranted. Here's the text for anyone interested: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754 https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754
Dylan16807 11y ago
People are less likely to reply when you're being silly. Facebook didn't plunder this data, and a letter of marque sounds like a bounty hunting license, not a law adding immunities for certain classes of action.

by pdkl95 11y ago

arkem 11y ago

It's really not. CISA is a vehicle for the distribution of Indications of Compromise and other standard infosec threat intelligence between Government entities as well as the public and large corporations. The liability protections are completely reasonable if private companies were going to participate at all. The privacy protections built in are also much more thorough than I was expecting in a bill of this nature. Really the only thing that really worries me about is that the things that the Government is allowed to do with shared information includes "identifying the use of an information system by a foreign adversary or terrorist". Which seems a little too broad for my tastes. In fact, I was on the CISA hate train but after reading it I feel that it's an entirely inoffensive law and my outrage has fizzled into indifference. I'm not going to lose sleep if this passed nor if it isn't but likening it to a Letter of Marque is not warranted. Here's the text for anyone interested: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754 https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/754

Dylan16807 11y ago

People are less likely to reply when you're being silly. Facebook didn't plunder this data, and a letter of marque sounds like a bounty hunting license, not a law adding immunities for certain classes of action.