Hey Reddit,

The Senate may try to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) before its summer recess. The zombie bill is a dangerous surveillance bill drafted by the Senate Intelligence Committee that is nearly-identical to CISPA due to its broad immunity clauses for companies, vague definitions, and aggressive spying powers.

Can you help us stop it? AMA

Answering questions today are: JaycoxEFF, nadia_k, drewaccess, NathanDavidWhite, neema_aclu, fightforthefuture, evanfftf, and astepanovich.

Proof it's us: EFF, Access, ACLU, Fight for the Future

You can read about why the bill is dangerous here. You can also find out more in this detailed chart (.pdf) comparing CISA to other bad cybersecurity bills.

Read the actual bill text here.

Take Action:

Visit the Stop Cyber Spying coalition website where you can fax your Senators and tell them to vote no on CISA.

Use a new tool developed by Fight for the Future to fax your lawmakers from the Internet. We want to make sure they get the message.

Help us spread the word. After you’ve taken action, tweet out why CISA must be stopped with the hashtag #StopCISA. Use the hashtag #FaxBigBrother if you want to automatically send a fax to your Senator opposing CISA. If you have a blog, join us by publishing a blog post this week about why you oppose CISA, and help us spread the word about the action tools at https://stopcyberspying.com/.

For detailed analysis you can check out this blog post and this chart.

Edit 1: to add links.

Edit 2: Responding to the popular question: "Why does CISA keep returning?"

Especially with ever worse data breaches and cybersecurity problems, members of Congress are feeling pressure to take some action to help in the area. They want to be able to say they did something for cybersecurity, but lobbyists and the intelligence community are pushing bad bills like CISA. Surveillance defenders like Sen. Richard Burr are also using every procedural tool available to them to help move these bills quickly (like holding meetings to discuss the bill in secret). They'll keep doing it until we win overwhelmingly and make the bill toxic for good, like we did with SOPA. That's why it's important that everyone takes action and ownership of this fight. We know it's easy to feel frustrated, but it's incredibly important for people to know how much their calls, emails...and faxes in this case, really matter. Congress wants to focus on things people are paying attention to. It's our job to make sure they know people are paying attention to CISA. We couldn't do it without all of you.

Edit 3: The east coast organizations have signed off for the day, but will be checking in every now and then to answer questions. Nadia and I will continue through 6pm PT. Afterwards, all of us will be checking this post over the next few days trying to answer any remaining questions. Thanks for all the support!

Since so many people asked for updates, I wanted to appease the masses with an update to this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/3ex772/tifu_on_a_job_interview_that_went_well_until_the/:

The resume, which was now in the garbage in 8 pieces, could easily be reconstructed to find the candidate's email address. I then typed up this email:

Dear [Name],

Thank you again for your interest in [company]. During the latter stages of our interview, there may have been an event that could have been perceived as a negative reaction on my part. Any such misconception is regrettable, and so I wanted to connect with you to clear up any misconceptions. In fact, in our company's 7-category scoring metric for interviewed candidates, I even scored you as "fairly competitive". Best wishes here or elsewhere in this exciting stage of your employment search journey.

Best, [name]

Next, I copied and pasted the email to Reddit and deleted it since actually sending it would cause many Redditor's heads to literally explode, and furthermore the candidate might respond by returning with a new resume and stapling it to my warm misunderstood heart.

Finally I went up to the hiring manager and we discussed the various candidates. As there were several that were essentially equally qualified and also several positions open, a gentle nudge in her direction was enough to get the woman hired. (And there was much rejoicing. Yay...)

ADMISSION 1: This was never quite as dramatic or tragic a story as it might have seemed, as the position is for a part-time adjunct professor. Since usually they will teach classes at 2 or 3 colleges each semester, getting or not getting a job from one college is probably not the end of the world. Of course, my original action was always a horrible gaffe that needed correction! But since we were able to get her hired and since I'll see her shortly, I'm not going to awkwardly reach out now but instead laugh it off together when the time comes.

ADMISSION 2: Through much of the first thread, I felt like a wealthy land owner during the Communist purges, with the furor of the working class proletariat really rising up at me: It was something to behold, although I seemed to quickly develop a Stalin-like ability to dismiss negative feedback at will (ah, but never to downvote it!)

Tl,dr: She was hired :)

I thought I'd start my day with a quick status update for you all. It's only been a couple weeks since my return, but we've got a lot going on. We are in a phase of emergency fixes to repair a number of longstanding issues that are causing all of us grief. I normally don't like talking about things before they're ready, but because many of you are asking what's going on, and have been asking for a long time before my arrival, I'll share what we're up to.

Under active development:

• Content Policy. We're consolidating all our rules into one place. We won't release this formally until we have the tools to enforce it.
• Quarantine the communities we don't want to support
• Improved banning for both admins and moderators (a less sneaky alternative to shadowbanning)
• Improved ban-evasion detection techniques (to make the former possible).
• Anti-brigading research (what techniques are working to coordinate attacks)
• AlienBlue bug fixes
• AlienBlue improvements
• Android app

Next up:

• Anti-abuse and harassment (e.g. preventing PM harassment)
• Anti-brigading
• Modmail improvements

As you can see, lots on our plates right now, but the team is cranking, and we're excited to get this stuff shipped as soon as possible!

I'll be hanging around in the comments for an hour or so.

update: I'm off to work for now. Unlike you, work for me doesn't consist of screwing around on Reddit all day. Thanks for chatting!

At the end of a night out on the town, a girl takes a black guy back to her house.

They're kissing and moving towards her bedroom when she looks at him with the most flirtatious eyes she can muster and says: "Is it true what they say about black guys? ;)"

To which the man responded "Of course it is baby.", stabbed her, stole her wallet and left.