Does Obama's new "Cyberdefense Plan" seem VERY similar to the Patriot Act?? (computers instead of phones)?

Question

"There is simply no way, the officials say, to effectively conduct computer operations without entering networks inside the United States, where the military is prohibited from operating..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/us/politics/13cyber.html

WASHINGTON — A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for possible offensive operations against adversaries’ computer networks.

President Obama has said that the new cyberdefense strategy he unveiled last month will provide protections for personal privacy and civil liberties. But senior Pentagon and military officials say that Mr. Obama’s assurances may be challenging to guarantee in practice, particularly in trying to monitor the thousands of daily attacks on security systems in the United States that have set off a race to develop better cyberweapons.

Much of the new military command’s work is expected to be carried out by the National Security Agency, whose role in intercepting the domestic end of international calls and e-mail messages after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, under secret orders issued by the Bush administration, has already generated intense controversy.

There is simply no way, the officials say, to effectively conduct computer operations without entering networks inside the United States, where the military is prohibited from operating, or traveling electronic paths through countries that are not themselves American targets.

Answer 1

Anyone who doesn't know that many attacks are routed through hundreds of different computers before reaching their target probably can't understand the need for this. Talk to China about the 3 million attacks they launch daily against the Pentagon. Do you think they go straight from the Chinese government computers to the Pentagon?

Answer 2

he's making an attempt to ward off us from posting the reality approximately his previous history no longer being obtainable and the reality that he, being born a British Citizen makes him ineligible to be President because of the fact he's no longer a organic Born American Citizen.

Answer 3

Just another way that governments are taking away peoples freedoms. I personally dont think the government has any right to snoop around in my affairs, after all they are suppose to work for me and you and all citizens. America is becoming a police state in many ways.

Answer 4

Actually I agree with Obama on this. Prior to being elected, he opposed the Patriot Act, but after becoming president I'm sure he's been briefed on important information unknown to us and has reconsidered his position.

Answer 5

Yep! Time to make more koolaid Barry!

Answer 6

go ahead make the hackers day.

Answer 7

SSHHHH-there is a reason the national liberal elite media is not covering this.

Answer 8

I support my president. (choke on that)