So, the NSA and the CIA were recently hacked, yet these numbskulls think we can create a system that will only be accessed by "the good guys" How many hacks, leaks etc will it take for them to understand that if this passes, that will be the end of online security?
New Rule: If you want to propose cybersecurity legislation, you need to pass the fizz buzz test.
they think we can create a system only available to them
Because there are civilian consumer systems, and state apparatus systems. The civilian consumer systems just leave shit out in the open, all over the place, and make a mess, with no obligation to common, clueless people.
Everyone knows that no effort is made to retain military operational security for sloppy, undisciplined non-combatants.
Anyone with clearance to actual hardened systems, sees a clear difference from the other side of the wall, and questions why the charade must go on, when it'd be so much easier to dispose of the pretense that there's "privacy" to be had, and see investigations forced to prosecute with so much parallel construction.
The state apparatus systems, in their minds, deserve preservation of secrecy, because it puts the owners at an advantage. They seek advantage by crippling consumer civilian systems. This is the line of reasoning from their perspective. Render outsiders defective. Create real systems for themselves. Maintain authority by denying useful systems to unknown quantities.
New Rule: If you want to propose cybersecurity legislation, you need to pass the fizz buzz test.