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Chris Wysopal: U.S. Government worst at data security

posted onApril 22, 2013
by l33tdawg

As CISPA (the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) poises to reach the Senate, ZDNet tells you what CISPA's proponents don't want you to know: one of the most highly respected security researchers in the U.S. recently disclosed findings about the U.S. Government's own shockingly negligent data security practices.

In light of Chris Wysopal's data, it appears that the only thing widely-opposed CISPA will protect is big business data deals and cybersecurity-shilling government contractors.

So while CISPA's supporters don't want you to peer behind the curtain, and have no problem leveraging the Boston bombings to push CISPA, let's find out what they don't want you to know about how they actually protect American data from cyberattacks. In 1998, Chris Wysopal was one of seven notorious hackers who testified to the U.S. Senate that they could bring down the Internet in 30 minutes.

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