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Why don't they write anything about the actual contents of CISPA? I went looking in Wikipedia, and noticed that: "CISPA is supported by several trade groups co

by nadaviv 14y ago

Why don't they write anything about the actual contents of CISPA? I went looking in Wikipedia, and noticed that: "CISPA is supported by several trade groups containing more than eight hundred private companies ... in addition to individual major telecommunications and information technology companies like ... Facebook ..." [1] Why would Facebook support CISPA? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_Protection_Act#Supporters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_...

tptacek 14y ago
Because CISPA promises (a) to allow Facebook to receive threat intelligence from the federal government, which collects massive amounts of it in ways that it is currently forbidden by statute to share, and (b) to allow Facebook to coordinate with Google and AT&T to track down attacks without worrying that someone's bogus interpretation of ECPA will land it in court for 5 years. Worth noting here that CISPA is entirely opt-in.
- bcoates 14y ago
  What's wrong with the ECPA that it's going to land someone in court?
  - tptacek 14y ago
    There are (faulty) readings of ECPA that would suggest that (say) Facebook providing NetFlow data to AT&T to help squelch a DDoS attack would constitute an unlawful sharing of private data.
snowwrestler 14y ago
Because CISPA was a good bill for technology companies. The campaign against it was led by political groups looking to trade on the acronym's similarity to SOPA to build their lists.