Trump signs (a bullshit law) Cyber Crime Fighting Act to train up local and state law enforcement

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"With a flourish of President Donald Trump's pen Thursday, state and local law enforcement got the tools and training needed to fight cybercrime as the Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act of 2017 became law.

Introduced by Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, the legislation authorizes the highly regarded National Computer Forensics Institute (NCFI) in Hoover, Ala., which has trained nearly 7,000 local officials from 50 states and three U.S. territories.

Shortly after Ratcliffe introduced his bill in March, Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced a similar bill in the Senate to expand the NCFI its charter to include training local law enforcement in cybersecurity practices.

"I'd like to thank President Trump for his strong support of my bill to ensure our state and local law enforcement officials are properly equipped to address and prosecute crimes in the 21st century - because we're now in an era where almost every case involves some sort of digital evidence," Ratcliffe said in a statement. "At the end of the day, getting the upper hand against cyber criminals will make our nation safer, and I'm glad that this critical piece of legislation has been signed into law to do just that."


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[9 Points] neuroloop:

This is just a further expansion of the worldwide industrial surveillance state initiative. As things continue to progress at current rates, as jobs continue to leave, the purpose of people being replaced by computers, they will continue to find reason to expand the police state and prisons (drugwar, terrorism). Which is why it has never been more important to fight against the war on drugs by any means you have.

So that during the times of future civil unrest, which will inevitably come to fruition, they will already have a cell for each and every one of us, for when we get "out of order" and "disobedient" only by way of struggling for food and housing, no job prospects for most citizens worldwide. All of this is, of course, hidden from us. But it is the future under the war on drugs.


[3 Points] XMRJimmy:

SHUM


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[1 Points] 4-MAR:

Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strengthening_State_and_Local_Cyber_Crime_Fighting_Act_of_2017

Major provisions

The objective of the bill is to authorize the National Computer Forensics Institute so that the center can “disseminate homeland security information related to the investigation and prevention of cyber and electronic crime and related threats, and educate, train, and equip State, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and judges.” The bill aims to achieve this through amending the Homeland Security Act of 2002.[1]

While the National Computer Forensics Institute, based in Hoover, Alabama, has been open since 2008, the bill would ensure proper oversight and accountability, solidifying the center’s position as the optimal site for training law enforcement to mitigate cyber threats.[13]

The bill establishes that the operations of the National Computer Forensics Institute are to:[1]

  • Educate law enforcement officers at all levels of government, including local, state, territorial, and tribal forces on threats related to cybercrime.
  • Instruct law enforcement personnel, about proper investigation methods, device examination techniques, and potential prosecutorial and judicial challenges.
  • Train law enforcement officers to carry out investigations and respond in a necessary manner to reported incidents of cybercrime.
  • Facilitate the sharing of information between State, local, tribal and territorial officers and prosecutors.
  • Provide materials like hardware, software, manuals, tools, and other items to law enforcement to conduct investigations.
  • Expand the Electronic Crime Task Forces of the United States Secret Service through continuous training of officers.

The NCFI would continue to be operated by the U.S. Secret Service, within the Department of Homeland Security. The network of Electronic Crime Task Forces would include stakeholders from academic institutions and the private sector under the expansion sanctioned by the authorization of the NCFI.[14]

Blowhards blowing hard: https://judiciary.house.gov/press-release/goodlatte-floor-statement-strengthening-state-local-cyber-crime-fighting-act/

The bill that Trump signed into law: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1616/text


[0 Points] DOXX_R_US:

this will ultimately have little effect on the dark net drug trade unless they do one or several of these things:

-Change the laws that allow people to drop priority and express packs into blue bins without talking to a human being (catastrophic, would destroy dark net markets)

-Crack TOR (pain in our ass, but we would switch to I2P)

-Start registering stamps to a state-issued ID at time of purchase OR start putting unique barcode on each stamp and scanning them into the system as they are sold (together with video evidence, this would be pretty damning). Also, similarly, require registration of state-issued ID for sales of pre-made labels on sites like Stampnik. (People could still just use a fake ID for either of these, but it would at least create an obstacle)

-Start requiring that people mail things with ONLY official USPS packaging if they are going to drop their packages somewhere other than the counter at the post office, and put unique barcodes on each envelope and box that, when obscured or destroyed, invalidates the piece of mail and causes an RTS. (People could go in after hours and hide their face when they take a stack of envelopes, but it would begin to create clues for LE and obstacles for vendors.)

Until they make these changes (or something similar), theres literally nothing they can do. Even tracking bitcoin is becoming useless as we adapt and begin using Monero.

I think the training in question is covering all aspects of cyber crime not just DNMs, and it might have some impact in other areas but I highly doubt it will affect us much.