Last summer, vocal opposition from American Internet users encouraged the Senate to back off on Senator Joseph Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) Cybersecurity Act. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called for another vote on the bill in a lame-duck session this week, leading to a close 51-47 vote against cloture for the act and barring it from moving forward.
The Cybersecurity Act, along with a handful of other Congressional cybersecurity initiatives, included vague definitions for terms such as “cybersecurity threat," "cybersecurity threat indicator" and "countermeasures" that had the potential for manipulation to provide massive expansion of government power over the Internet.
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