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posted by on Friday April 10 2015, @08:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-legislates-in-nevada-stays-in-nevada dept.

Ostensibly, the bill is aimed at enhancing data security. However, many aren't convinced that the provisions of the bill would provide any value at all.

From the USA Today article:

Nevada could become the first state in the nation to mandate the physical route government data takes as it travels the Internet under a bill being considered by the Nevada Legislature.

The bill's sponsors, Assembly Majority Leader Paul Anderson, R-Las Vegas, and Sen. Mo Denis, D-Las Vegas, argue their measure is critical for cybersecurity because it would keep government Internet traffic confined to the state, instead of allowing that data to travel traditional paths that often include out-of-state connection points.

But both critics of the bill and independent Internet security experts said the measure would do just the opposite, creating a single-point bottleneck that could make data more vulnerable to attack and would defeat the Internet's greatest strength, that it is decentralized with an almost infinite number of traffic routes.

The bill has until Friday (4/10/2015) to make it out of committee or it will die.

It's worth noting that the only public supporter of the bill is Switch (better known as Supernap) which would have a lot to gain should this bill pass.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by mendax on Friday April 10 2015, @12:44PM

    by mendax (2840) on Friday April 10 2015, @12:44PM (#168722)

    When it comes to politicians, the great American sage Mark Twain should be consulted for the appropriate humorous anecdote. I consult my library for one (on a bookshelf, mind you). This is from a article he wrote for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise in 1866:

    And speaking of steamboats reminds me of an incident of my late trip to Sacramento. I want to publish it, as showing how going north on the river gradually enfeebles one's mind, and accounts for the strange imbecility of legislatures who leave here [San Francisco where he was living at the time] sensible men and become the reverse, to the astonishment of their constituents, by the time they reach their seats in the Capitol at Sacramento.

    These sentiments, of course, also apply to Carson City, and no doubt Mark Twain witnessed or got wind of some of this moronic behavior himself, as his older brother Orion was heavily involved in early Nevada politics.

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