[Infowarrior] - This Is the Kind of Idiot That Congress Puts in Charge of Technology

[Richard Forno]

This Is the Kind of Idiot That Congress Puts in Charge of Technology
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-kind-of-idiot-that-congress-puts-in-charge-1788122640

Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee stopped by Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room to drop some knowledge about Friday’s massive DDoS attack that affected large swaths of the internet. Blackburn managed to say a lot of techy-sounding things until her time was up. No one walked away feeling smarter.

Blackburn sits on the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, so it’s not great news to hear the politician bumble through an update about Friday’s disruptive hack. What’s infuriating is listening to Blackburn try to tie this to the failed anti-piracy legislation known as SOPA:

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http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-kind-of-idiot-that-congress-puts-in-charge-1788122640

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