To voters along with firsthand accounts from political reporters updated poll numbers, fundraising data, and campaign ads. Watch cspans 2024 campaign trail friday night at 7 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan, online, cspan. Org, or download as a podcast on cspan now, our free mobile apps, or wherever you get your podcast. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Next, officials from the transportation department, the american gas association, and the American Petroleum institute testifying on legislation to ensure the safe handling of pipelines and other Hazardous Materials, the house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hearing is two hours. . [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee on railroads, pipelines, and Hazardous Materials will come to order. I asked members consent the chairman of the authorized to declare recess at any time during todays hearing. Objections ordered. I i asked mens consent the members not on the subcommittee be permitted to sit with the subcommittee at t
Whos international mep ship is working to improve the security condition worldwide. We start by reviewing some successful bott net take downs in recent years. They may prove instructive as they are successes. In 2008, the conflict worm was discovered. I had competing commercials security companies. Members cooperated with each other to mitigate this global threat. Then in 2011, the u. S. Department of justice led operation ghost click, in which a criminal gang in estonia was arrested, charged with wire fraud and conspiracy. While shutting off the criminal infrastructure the victims depended on. My employer was the courtappointed receiver for the criminals Internet Connectivity and resources. I personally prepared, installed and operated the replacement servers necessary for that takedown. In each of these examples, we seed an ad hoc Public Private partnership in which trust was established and sensety information, including Strategic Planning was shared without any contractual framewor
Second, this is how criminals work with other criminals. We would not get far by trying to solve these fast evolving global problems with topdown control or through government directives and rules. As you yourself pointed out, a botnet is literally a network of robots, whereby robot we mean a computer thats been captured and made to run software neither provided by the maker or authorized or installed by its owner. It has conflict and so forth. The only hard and fast requirement for any of this software is interoperability, meaning it merely has to work. The cost of the internets spectacular growth d. Sorry the cost is much of the software we run was not adequately tested. The challenge for the internet is perhaps theres more assurance that an ul listed toaster will not burn our house, whereas some of our devices are insulated from becoming a tool of online criminals. These are Consumer Devices in a competitive and fastmoving market. Time to market is often the distance between success
Since 1978 when the fisa court was created there have been two appeals of the lower courts decisions. I think thats a really amazing statistic. We wanted to include a mechanism that would create the opportunity for additional appellate review given the types of things that the fisa court has been reviewing especially in the last decade or so the bulk collection programs of course being a prime example of that. It also included information related to the nondisclosure orders that, long with section 215 orders and National Security letters and this gets to some of the transparency issues we have been discussing. When you receive a section 215 order or fisa court order or national skirt a letter comes with something that says you cant tell anyone about it. There have been federal Court Decisions and kurt can probably speak to this as well that says that violates the First Amendment in the current statutes. So we have statutory provisions to address the problems and provide judicial review
Interpretation of statutes. And, also, the Supreme Court has indicated in the u. S. V. Jones case dealing with g. P. S. They have doubts about smith v. Maryland and those doubts existed in opinions written by five of the justices not all on the same opinion but that shows some support of a reinterpretation of smith and smith v. Maryland is the underpinning of a lot of the programs and the interpretations. If you can get the courts outside of the secret court to hit these issues, to find some things unconstitutional, this makes it much more difficult for them to twist the words and make sort of creative arguments in the secret court to expand on things, even if we dont know what theyre doing in that court. It makes it, if we end up having a special advocate, that gives them something to cite to something to work with in those courts and so were hopeful that by getting some judicial change on this can really set the stage for widespread reform. And if you dont if the courts rule against