We‘ve discussed the „cybersecurity“ bill, CISA, that‘s been making its way through Congress a few times, noting that it is nothing more than a surveillance expansion bill hidden in „cybersecurity“ clothing. As recent revelations concerning NSA‘s surveillance authorities have made quite clear, CISA would really serve to massively expand the ability of the NSA (and other intelligence agencies) to do „backdoor searches“ on its „upstream“ collection. In short, rather than protecting any sort of security threat, this bill would actually serve to give the NSA more details on the kind of „cyber signatures“ it wants to sniff through pretty much all internet traffic (that it taps into at the backbone) to collect anything it deems suspicious. It then keeps the results of this, considering it „incidental“ collections of information.