Yesterday with both the House and Senate preparing to leave
for the weekend, there were 45 bills introduced. Of these on may be of specific
interest to readers of this blog:
HR 5300
To provide agencies with discretion in securing information technology and
information systems. Rep.
Palmer, Gary J. [R-AL-6]
Okay, this clearly seems to be an IT security bill, and it
probably does not include any OT provisions, and appears to be limited to
government computer systems; so why am I including it here? The phrase ‘discretion
in securing’ raises all sort of red flags that bear further investigation. This
probably will not show up here again, but who knows what silliness
congresscritters can come up with.
BTW: If you ever doubted the potential for congressional
knee-jerk response, there were companion bills (HR
5315 and S 2556)
introduced in the House and Senate yesterday to establish federal regulations prohibiting putting a live animal in an overhead bin on an aircraft (incident news
story here).
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