As I noted
last week Rep. Shea-Porter (D,NH) introduced HR
3990, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2014. This is a companion
bill to S 1897 introduced by Sen. Leahy (D,NH). The bill deals mainly with
the protection of personally identifiable information, but it does contain one
section (§109) that makes it a criminal act to damage critical infrastructure
computers, including control system computers. Different versions of this
section have been found in other bills as well (HR
1468 for instance).
There is one oddity in the Leahy-Shea-Porter version of the
bill; the definition of critical infrastructure includes “electrical power
delivery systems;” while other versions expand on that to include “electrical
power generation and delivery systems;”. This ‘oddity’ should be corrected in
committee markup.
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