Where's the outrage for the cybersecurity act?

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    Date: 
    13 April 2009

    Bend your ears boys and girls for another of Baron von Münch-Kane’s once-spun yarns and twice-told tales.

    It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen when the cyber winds howled forebodingly at the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced by Senators John Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe. The senators’ Big Brother law would allow government scrutiny over everything posted to the Internet, while granting the White House “unprecedented control over computer software and Internet services” and powers “to access private online data, regulate the cyber security industry and even shut down Internet traffic.”