By Leslie Harris – Crafting a national cybersecurity policy is fraught with challenges. Finding a solution will require a nuanced approach that recognizes that any comprehensive law will affect individual rights and technological innovation and that strives to minimize the negative consequences.
Distinction that must be drawn is between systems that serve our core American values such as free expression and democratic participation — most prominently the Internet — and those that do not. Policies that may be appropriate for the power grid or the banking system may not be appropriate for components of the Internet used for exercising First Amendment rights to speak, associate, and petition the government. more> http://is.gd/dof6Ro
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