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Subject: [ISN] After Aaron's Law reintroduced, new counter-bill aims to crack down on hackers
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2015-04-27 16:02:02
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1504271601510.22083 () infosecnews ! org
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By Zack Whittaker
Zero Day
ZDNet News
April 25, 2015
Congress is at odds on new cybersecurity legislation, with the
introduction of two competing bills aimed at reforming computer misuse
laws.
On Tuesday, Sens. Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
introduced two new bills -- one with the express aim at "punishing cyber
criminals" who obtain information "without authorization."
The senators, who announced the draft Data Breach Notification and
Punishing Cyber Criminals Act (you can read it below), want to increase
maximum allowable fines and prison sentences for common cyber-crimes,
including identity theft and obtaining information from a protected
computer "without authorization."
And that is part of the problem. The bill doesn't fix what's fundamentally
wrong with the law -- the outdated and overbroad definitions that lump in
security researchers and those who simply violate a terms-of-service as
malicious hackers.
[...]
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