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> Among other things, the bill by Feinstein and Chambliss would authorize companies and individuals to monitor their own and consenting customers' networks for
by kordless 12y ago
> Among other things, the bill by Feinstein and Chambliss would authorize companies and individuals to monitor their own and consenting customers' networks for hacking and voluntarily share cyber threat data, stripped of personally identifiable information, with the government and each other for cybersecurity purpose.
Who wants to be my first customer?
- higherpurpose 12y agoAnd what does "consenting" mean? Something written in the ToS, or that you can't deny, like "if you visit this site, you agree to use our cookies...and share everything with the NSA/FBI"? That sort of "consenting"?
- TheCraiggers 12y ago"By visiting this site (which you already have because you're reading this) you agree to share your info about your visit with the FBI/NSA (which we just did). Thank you."
- sp332 12y agoAnonymizing datasets still doesn't work. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8010061
- TeMPOraL 12y agoIt will never work; with enough data to cross-correlate you'll always be able to deanonymize it. Otherwise the data itself would be meaningless.
- api 12y agoSide note: I really wish someone would really explain this to Bitcoin people. Bitcoin is cool but it isn't an anonymity tool. Every single transaction is permanently in the ledger, and combined with IP snooping, big data, machine learning, and a bit of gumshoe police work the potential for tracing things is incredible.