Does The Cybersecurity Act Of 2012 Mark The Beginning Of The War On Cyber-terrorism?

The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is the latest effort by Congress to do something about the threat of cyber attacks and cyber crime. Fortunately, and perhaps thanks to the efforts to quash SOPA and PIPA, the Act is quite a bit more restrained in scope than its predecessors.

You can read the whole thinghere.

Still, one can’t help but be a little bit nervous about this sort of thing, especially when the usual suspects in Congress start rattling their sabers.

Slashgear pulled together some choice quotes from our political leaders who are selling this bill:

“Hackers are stealing information from Fortune 500 companies,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, ”breaking into the networks of our government and security agencies and toying with the networks that power our economy.”

See more at: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/02/22/does-the-cybersecurity-act-of-2012-mark-the-beginning-of-the-war-on-cyber-terrorism/