Enforcement actions and the lessons that we should take away from them. We must recognize that Enforcement Actions are just one part of the answer, so im interested in hearing also about how we can better inform computer users of the dangers of botnets and what other hygiene steps we can take to address this threat. My hope is that this hearing starts a conversation among those dealing day to day with the botnet threat and those of us in congress who are deeply concerned about that threat. Congress, of course, cannot and should not dictate tactics for fighting botnets. That must be driven by the expertise of those on the front lines of the fight, but congress does have an Important Role to make sure there is a solid Legal Foundation for Enforcement Actions against botnets and clear standards governing when they can occur. We must also ensure that botnet takedowns and other actions are carried out in a way that protects consumers privacy. All while recognizing that botnets themselves re
The professor believes that he could bring suit if he thought the speaker of the house assumed the roll of commander in chief. The point here is not who was the better reading on this particular question of whether theres an implicit Transition Authority to smooth the transition to the new requirements. The critical fact that this is mere lay debate about the best way of construing legislation and the house has no legal interest in that. Now, whatever the right answer. This may be an important matter in terms of extending health care to 25, or 30 million americans and making sure the business has time to comply with the new requirements that this business desired and as i believe this house overwhelmingly supports. Thats what this transition is carrying out. Whatever the right answer to that question, i think its safe to say that never in our history has such a radical change in the role of the Judicial Branch been proposed to deal with such a routine question of administrative process
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
Rate of improving Unemployment Rate and what that says about our economy. Youve talked about that both in your policy report and your written statement here today and your oral statement you said the Unemployment Rate has fallen nearly 1. 5 rates over the past year. It stood at 6. 1 . The gentleman will suspend. The clerk is having a little trouble hearing if you could speak closer to the microphone. Much has been said about the Unemployment Rate fallen 4 points from the height. My concern is that these government numbers dont seem to distinguish between full time employment and part time employment. If the gentleman would suspend one more time. Would you mind using the microphone adjacent to you and lets see if that corrects the problem . Is that better . Perhaps the microphone for mr. West mooreland might work. Lets try this . Okay. Chairman in march you gave a speech about what the fed is doing to tackle the Unemployment Rate. You made this observation. This is a quote, the existenc