CISPA, AGAIN!

Mid last month(June) I posted about the implications CISPA will have in our lives if its passed into law. If you didn’t find that article it can be found here.  Now  3 days later something happened to me that changed my whole view of the bill and since then I  have wished I didn’t post  it in the first place.

My laptop got stolen by somebody I had known . This guy who  took my laptop had been a high school buddy and it had  been a while since we talked, then on this one Thursday I receive a call from a number not in my phone-book. Well to cut a long story short he made away with my  laptop. I however managed get the registration number of the vehicle he was using.

So filled with my Nikita episodes I thought all the details I had would be enough to track him. So I went to the CID police and reported the matter but then reality check hit me there and then. It was not gonna be easy. I thought all they needed to do was query some database with the registration number and just like that a name would pop up plus other vital information. It turned out to be a process filled with bureaucracy one would think we are back to the cold war. 

 Then it dawned to me, if CISPA was there today and not just in the USA but right here in Kenya it would be a different story all together.  The airtel number he used to call me  would have  shown all the other numbers he called  and that information quickly passed to the CID officers. This might show the ID number which can then be used to query  bank accounts  and an alert placed should the culprit use an ATM or simply perform a transaction at a bank. All over sudden I had became a master of investigation but it was just a dream.

So whatever opinion I voiced against The CISPA bill i take it back for now I know so much more is at stake if its not implemented and very fast for that matter