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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Demands... That Obama Needs To Crack Down On Cyber Criminals Like Wikileaks hacker supporters

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t's time for President Obama to lead a global crackdown on cyber criminals like the WikiLeaks sympathizers who attacked U.S. companies last week, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said on Sunday.

Sites for MasterCard, Visa and PayPal were sabotaged in a string of cyber attacks after cutting ties to notorious classified document-dumper WikiLeaks.

"America is the most targeted nation in the world," Gillibrand told reporters Sunday.

She and U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Brooklyn) want to move forward on anti-cybercrime legislation they introduced in the Senate and the House earlier this year.

If it became law, it would deploy a "carrot-stick approach" of helping other countries combat cyber crime originating within their borders and offering less economic assistance to those that don't cooperate, Gillibrand said.

The Secret Service estimates that as much as 70 percent of cybercrime originates outside the United States.

City businesses lose more than $1.9 billion from cyber crime each year.

lcroghan@nydailynews.com



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31 comments // Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Demands... That Obama Needs To Crack Down On Cyber Criminals Like Wikileaks hacker supporters

  • unclecharlie
    • -1
      unclecharlie  
    • OK, ya brainwashed college kids, indoctrinated in leftist drivel- Asange is an alleged rapist and molester, now doing time as home confinement, with an ankle monitor. I don't see how anyone can support someone like that, especially one who feels that putting our troops lives in jeopardy is a "calling." Yes, this endless war serves no purpose, useful or otherwise, but to deliberately place troops in harm's way? That doesn't make Asange a hero- it makes him a contemptible human being who deserves every day of a prison sentence.

    • 2 years ago
  • gerardange
    • +2
      gerardange  
    • The REAL CRIMINALs & TERRORISTS in what we are talking about here... are "Big Government & Big Corporations, who ALL feel that they are above the Law..."

    • 2 years ago
  • Jeremy_Benson
    • +1
      Jeremy_Benson  
    • Those are mostly normal people who are using their l33t computer skills to do what most of the rest of us wish we could do. When hundreds, possibly thousands of people come together in a unified strike against injustice that is not 'hacking' it is the voice of the people. The administration would do well to remember that.

    • 2 years ago
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  
    • You are wearing out your welcome pretty quickly, there Kirsten. You might want to back peddle while you still have the chance, Miss Government Transparency.

    • 2 years ago
  • RMattnerTours
  • dustinfineout
  • dustinfineout
  • coxian_armada
  • RMattnerTours
  • jubal
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      jubal  
    • America is the most targeted nation in the world because it is the biggest terrorist sponsoring country in the world.

    • 2 years ago
  • PressCore
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      PressCore  
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    • jubal:

      http://Current.com

      I have no doubt of that. In previous comments I made in other Current.com
      articles, I painstakingly pointed out the factors why the CIA, leading the State
      Dept. by the nose, has created the majority of the enemies targeting the USA.
      And that the CIA supposedly did that on behalf of the USA makes me wonder
      whom they're working for. It certainly isn't the people who payroll them. There
      used to be an aged Senator from W. Virginia named Byrd who died not long
      ago. Smart man. in one Congressional Hearing he pointedly asked one of the
      civilian/military: " How do your know that as the force you propose to commit
      to Afghanistan won't be met with equal or exceeding force as a direct result
      of your proposed escalation ? " You can tell Senator Byrd was around in Vietnam.
      Or as we hippies like to call it Afghanistan Part 1. Iraq was Afghanistan Part 2.
      The American invasion of Afghanistan is the real Afghanistan, aka Part 3.,
      and not a dress rehearsal. " Afghanistan, graveyard of Empires " as they term it.

      Since WW2 ended, the USA has been dragged in and out of 5 non defensive
      wars in 65 years. The Karma involved with all that military madness has to be
      destructive to the extreme. I'm glad that I'm nearing 62, and that after I settle
      my legal affairs here in New York, I'll be able to travel. I want to live in Amsterdam
      some of the year, intermittently, and rent a place there after I buy my home here.
      The Winters should reflect more of a maritime climate with mitigated cold there.
      I spent the Winter of 1979 into 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland, and I loved the
      place. It reminded me so much of Colorado, being able to see the mountains.
      California is also a place I want to live in since I've been to L.A. in 1965. " For
      everything, a place, and a time under heaven " as it's quoted in Ecclesiastes.

    • 2 years ago
  • Kealoha
    • +1
      Kealoha  
    • It would be better and more economical to aggressively pursue the bankers and vermin on Wall Street. Leave Wikileaks alone... use them to got after the real bad guys. What a waste of legislative energy.

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
  • Nephwrack
  • CarlosBobthe3rd
  • keithponder
  • figgdimension
  • PressCore
  • Dejan_Croatia
  • tverdell
  • stehpanie
  • dustinfineout
  • PressCore
    • +6
      PressCore  
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    • http://Current.com

      Wikileaks is a phenomenon that's effectively countered the rampant secrecy
      of the Dept.(s) that have sought to subvert & convert our USA's Democratic
      Republic into a National Security State. When the CIA was created in 1947,
      like Cerberus, to "guard us", the very first thing they did was to subvert the
      Free Press in the USA. The point's been made Wikileaks hasn't released
      anything of value..My point is even if that were true, WTF. So what !!! The
      very fact they can leak ANYTHING kept secret proves that military intelligence
      is an oxymoron. And that the CIA's " Goliath " immage as the infallible civilian government directing an invincible war machine has been proven to be fataly
      flawed. When Osama Bin Laden died in Dec.2001, his last words were that
      he resisted the intrusion of the American "hegemony" in Islamic lands. Don't you
      get his point ??? He was equating what the CIA does as what WE do.(AS IF !!!)
      The point is he believed the CIA represents us when they don't. Americans are dragged along behind them while we're chained to them like some kind of
      Roman galley slaves, as they drive their war machine tractor onward.

      Democracy, and the blessings of Liberty it bestows can't peacefuly co-exist
      along side of a Master Race of domestic Nazis hell bent on destroying our
      Liberty to protect us from ourselves as if they were our jailers. They've brain
      washed us to believe Communists are "our" enemies. They've brain washed
      us to believe terrorists are "our" enemies. Why ? Because they need to distract
      us from seeing them as they realy are. We know the CIA masterminded their
      false flag of 9/11, and their FBI accomplices covered that up because both
      agencies have a political agenda. Congress never had the foresight to outlaw
      the FBI having any political agenda when they created them in 1932. Ditto for
      their creation of the CIA in 1947. The CIA/FBI are the totalitarians, fomenting
      fear & War from deep in the shadows they hide in to attempt to elude Judicial
      oversight over them. Their m.o. is to use title 18 USC sections 241/242 as their doormat because both operate under the color of law, Intimidating others to
      Obstruct Justice in prosecuting them in criminal Court for their Felonies.

      CIA's sordid History shows they've not made the world " safe for Democracy."
      They have only made us a target for more World War because they've created
      more enemies against us out of foreign nations & their citizens, than JFK &
      Sargent Shriver made friends for us through the Peace Corps. And at a faster
      rate. Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has observed & reported that
      key offices in highest echelons of Minnesota State Government were occupied
      by CIA officers.And that when the retired, they were replaced by more of the
      same. To the CIA/FBI, the USA is an occupied country from within, by them.

      CIA's idea of erecting puppet Governments in Iran through the Shah, and in S.
      Vietnam through Ngo Dien Diem isn't simply their foreign policy. Our USA has
      also been the CIA's target for their erection of puppet governments. CIA/FBI
      cabal of shadow government has sought to puppeteer the Executive/Legislative branches of the U.S.to make the world safer for their spies, lies, and betrayal. Democracy can't exist in the shadows, any more than CIA/FBI's scandalously
      criminal methods can exist in the light. People would revolt against funding their UnAmerican activities if the secrecy their cover ups & censorship promotes
      were brought out into the open as Wiklileaks does to expose it. Closing off
      Government & closing off people's minds go hand in hand in a Democratic
      Republic.. The temptation is to overreact. And create another monstrosity that
      goes too far, and will promote the cycle of repression & causes of terrorism,
      while making Govt. UnAmerican as has been going on since Nixon.Oppression
      hinges entirely on secrecy..There's another American Revolution in the air.

      Have you Current.com members ever experienced a Chinese finger toy ? The
      more you try to pull out, the more you get locked in. The solution is to edge
      forward w/o the use of force to extricate yourself. If they pass another law, they
      will only create more crime, by law, than eradication of this business sabotage
      in a much more permanent way, if they eliminated the MOTIVES to launch those crimes. To do that, they'd need to eliminate the DOMINANCE of the shadow government that's fomenting domestic & foreign warfare:CIA/FBI to which
      Wikileaks has countered. Because it's the CIA's operatives who,in attempting
      to frame him for crimes, have made him a hero. And the hackers attacking the
      credit card companies retaliating in reprisal. The only way to stop endless wars
      is to commit to Peace. Peace is not the Xmas season, it's a way of life. We
      don't have a way of life any more. We've blindly replaced it by accepting a way
      of death having creating an Orwellian TV War without End culture where we
      accept wars as inevitable. That Peace is an illusion to pause until the next war.

      It's the CIA's dominance over the State Dept., " Justice " Dept, which is realy
      only an FBI front now, and the NSA, that has resulted in Wikileaks, and their
      foreign hacker supported sabotage as reprisal for the CIA's retaliation to
      Julian Assange by framing him. Law & Order are expected to breakdown
      when only War w/o End is expected, planned for, and supported. For those
      of us who won't capitulate to chaos & anarchy, it would be a good idea to
      step back, take a deep breath, and think for a change rather than be set up
      to make the usual emotional knee jerk reactions that produced the heinous
      & infamous monstrosities like the Patriot Act, Homegrown Terrorism Act et al.
      The CIA has been leading us into to a police State since 1947. The CIA's
      control of Congress & the President, and the minds of the people controlled
      through television have led to this. Ever see that Will Smith, Gene Hackman
      movie: Enemy of the State ? They portray the FBI as the " good guys " More propaganda. They've occluged the truth by hiding it in plain sight. The FBI
      agressively penetrated the lives of U.S. Supreme Court Justices, Hollywood
      actors etc under the pretense of lawful investigations to uncover whom they
      could blackmail to carry out their political agenda. And that J.Edgar Hoover
      and his cult of Nazis have subverted the Press through Hearst Newspapers to
      puppeteer the FBI's Prohibition & War on Drugs..

      The CIA attempted to takeover Iran & Vietnam from 1950-1975, and failed
      miserably. The CIA was implicated in meddling with the internal affairs of Iran
      in 2009 which resulted in the most ugly string of Murders against Iranian
      activists there. The CIA represents the grossest repudiation of American
      Democracy the world has ever seen. As Walter Cronkite expressed the idea:
      " Freedom of Press isn't an institution in a Democracy, it IS the Democracy "
      The 1st Amendment is an absolute right, not a privilege. Without Free Press
      & the writ of habeas corpus, we'd not be living in a free country. Wikileaks
      is a Journalistic force that has counterbalanced the futile secrecy seeking to
      deliver us into the hands of a police State and Martial law. In case you hadn't
      already figured it out that's what Germany experienced throughout the 1930s-
      1945. Only there won't be any USA to liberate us from that horror story if we
      become our own worst enemies, will there ?

    • 2 years ago
  • jeffreyak
  • jeffreyak
  • BKsaysAction
    • +5
      BKsaysAction  
    • Yes, we have to protect the credit card companies. Oh these poor poor billion dollar companies that allow payments and donations to racist and religious extremist groups must be saved. But we must get rid of a website that leaked a file that told us what floor Gaddafi likes to sleep on. That intel was absolutely vital!

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
  • ozoneocean
    • +4
      ozoneocean  
    • Umm... isn't wikileaks a victim of cybercrime? What does senator Kirsten Moron think about that?
      Only some sites deserve to be protected?

    • 2 years ago
  • gerardange
    • +6
      gerardange  
    • ozoneocean:

      VERY GOOD POINT! = That proves without a doubt....

      That one persons cyber-criminal ~ is another persons Truth Fighting Hero-!!!

      The CRIMINALs & TERRORISTS in what we are talking about here... are "Big Government & Big Corporations, who feel that they are above the Law..."

      Corporations Like:... [ MORGAN STANLEY, HALIBURTON, BANK OF AMERICA & MONSANTO ]... ( And Many Others...) whose leaders NOW live like Royalty on Billions OVER BILLIONS of profits "all from OUR DOLLARS" and, even more Billions from Bailout Bonuses... Which They all continued to award themselves ~ as they foreclosed on Good, Honest Hard-Working Families Across The Country ... Forcing good hard working honest people and, their children out of their homes and on to the streets!
      ( Just like: Charles Dickens in "Oliver Twist".)

      [ THOSE CORPORATIONS ] whose leaders NOW... "DEMAND our Austerity!!!"

      and DEMAND that all of us...live with LESS... As they... Continue to Live with MORE!

      WIKILEAKS WAS ONLY A WAKE-UP CALL SERVICE !!!

      Wikileaks is only performing... like global "Corruption Protection Software". Uncovering the lies... and sharing the TRUTH... with all of US. The truth that showed us that our Government is infected with Corporate Corruption. That the corrupt corporations have stolen a government that was once a Government "For the people and, by the people" and corrupted our government into working against the interests of the People of this Country. "

      WE DEMAND OUR COUNTRY BACK!!!!

      The Politicians MUST be PUT ON NOTICE: And be told that they ONLY for the PEOPLE... AND NOT... for The Corporations. = People need to go to jail for this !

      WE MUST LEARN FROM HISTORY.....

      This is a wake-up call for everyone.. Wikileaks was only the Alarm Bell !!!

      IT is not about Wikileaks being a cyber-terrorist.... ITS ABOUT THE TRUTH!
      and Personal Responsibility, Accountability and, Transparency of Government.

      Yes... Speaking The Truth is Courageous...

      [ IT IS NOW UP TO ALL OF US ] ... To Be Courageous Too.

      To all [ ACT ]... Courageous...

      [ WHAT ]... have you done Courageous... today ?

      be... Courageous...

      ~

    • 2 years ago
  • bailey78
  • telcod
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