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I guess, if I was going to put my CISPA-advocate hat on, which I don't like because it is an ugly hat that I think my cat peed on, I would say this: It is already possible for service providers to do the things CISPA enables them to do. However, under current regulations, it is legally risky for them to do it. Some of what they do incurs legal risk. Some of the legal risks mean that whole companies in some verticals…
Do you think that EFF vs AT&T would have been easier to dismiss, post-CISPA?
No. What part of AT&T's defense involved operational network security? For whatever it's worth: AT&T's complicity in NSA monitoring of overseas traffic involving American citizens was despicable.