I think you misunderstood me. I wasn't saying the govt. should be allowed to conduct cyberwarfare. However, they should be allowed to conduct investigations into cyberwarfare and protect it's citizens against it. That's one of the major intents here. The FBI and CIA can not work together on investigations when it involves doing something like working with private entities to share maleware or explore attack vectors. To be clear, they can't even do whitehat things today that private citizens are allowed due to regulatory restrictions. I'm not saying this justifies cispa. It doesn't. But, it does help frame the discussion in a productive way.
No problem. Maybe just me (perhaps quite some people here as well) had a high expectation over Google. I thought Google pulled off that stunt from a human right stand, rather than from simply being patriotic to the USA. GOOG has much more resources than Elon Musk to do lots of stuffs meaningful for the greater good of human being.
Well. Ideally, I'm sure they'd like to do both. Pull out of the country(for human rights reasons) and then turn the data over to the feds(for investigative purposes). Goog doesn't have the power to protect the nation or other businesses from similar activities, but they could certainly help the CIA do that, if needed.
