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For lawyers probably "operational network data" is vague, but for the technical readers on HN I think it is clear that this is much more restricted than what is
by jules 14y ago
For lawyers probably "operational network data" is vague, but for the technical readers on HN I think it is clear that this is much more restricted than what is actually allowed by the bill. For example operational network data contains perhaps access logs & http headers, but it does not include, say, your emails. For this bill however, there are many conceivable situations under which it would grant immunity for the sharing of your emails. So for the HN audience "operational network data" does not adequately cover the the bill, and furthermore the things that "operational network data" does not include are exactly the the kind of private information that people are most worried about.
If it was up to me then I would certainly first change other aspects of the bill which are far worse than this definition, but as far as this particular definition goes, I would limit the information that can be shared to the information that can reasonably lead to the solution of the problem (fixing vulnerability / removing threat / stopping evil efforts) not "information pertaining to the vulnerability / threat / efforts". It may well turn out that in court that is already how this will be interpreted, but the problem is that this wording does not make that clear at all. And in a legal case where it has to be decided whether a company gets immunity for a particular piece of information that was shared, "reasonably" should be determined by an external technical expert, and not according to the private opinions of the person who shared the information.