The U.S. Senate voted 74-21 in favor of CISA, a controversial cybersecurity bill. All five amendments submitted in an attempt to bolster privacy failed to pass. From The Guardian's coverage: Try asking the bill’s sponsors how the bill will prevent cyberattacks or force companies and governments to improve their defenses. They can’t answer. They will use buzzwords like “info-sharing” yet will conveniently ignore the fact that companies and the government can already share information with each other as is. There were barely any actual cybersecurity experts who were for the bill. A large group of respected computer scientists and engineers were against it. So were cyberlaw professors. Civil liberties groups uniformly opposed (and were appalled by) the bill. So did consumer groups. So did the vast majority of giant tech companies. Yet it still sailed through the Senate, mostly because lawmakers - many of whom can barely operate their own email - know hardly anything about the technology that they’re crafting legislation about. In other words, you're all fucked again... us 10, you ZERO, hahaha! http://www.dailydot.com/politics/cisa-senate-passage-cybersecurity-informati... http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/27/1440874/-Senate-Shoots-Down-Four-Am... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/27/senate-ignorant-of-cybe... https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2015/04/technologists-oppose-cisainformat... https://www.elon.edu/e-net/Article/122816?cmsapifragment=1283 https://www.aclu.org/broad-coalition-opposes-cybersecurity-information-shari... https://cdt.org/insight/consumer-advocates-letter-to-senate-on-cybersecurity... http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/26/technology/cisa-cybersecurity-bill-senate/