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Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Aug 29 04:22:40 2009

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: swm@emanon.com
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:21:53 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4A989C59.10801@emanon.com> (Scott Morris's message of "Fri, 28
	Aug 2009 23:11:21 -0400")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, "Hiers, David" <David_Hiers@adp.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

* Scott Morris:

> I'm trying really hard to find my "paranoia hat", and just to relieve
> some boredom I read the entire bill to try to figure out where this was
> all coming from....
>
> "(2) may declare a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or
> shutdown of Internet traffic to and from any compromised Federal
> Government or United States critical infrastructure information system
> or network;"

Wouldn't this mean you're allowed to set emergency ACLs only if a
cybersecurity emergency has been declared by the President?


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