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Possibly with a little nudge, Congress can be convinced to get behind blocking this. Provided the argument against is framed as, would you Congress-person be okay with a judge in (county / state across the country) having the legal authority to hack in to your machine here in (home county / state)? Because unless I'm confused, this law would apply to Congress-people as well as citizen Joe.



If they did it to us that would be state-sponsored cyber-terrorism!


The problem I see is the "it won't happen to me!" attitude. That's how these bills get passed in the first place, and Congress think they are so high up the food chain that it won't affect them.


Remind them of NSA spying on the Senate Intelligence Committee.




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