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Ron Johnson: “If you actually want to solve the crime, if you want to…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson at HSGAC hearing on GAO's 2015 List of High Risk Government Programs

Published | Video Starts at 12:19

In other words, that threat signature, there's really no reason to have personal information attached to that information that's shared, correct? I would say generally that would be the case. But If you actually want to solve the crime, if you want to trace back where did that hacking come from, which, you know, quite honestly prevent further attacks, would be awful nice to find out who these bad actors are, who. Who the criminals are. Can. That is where you need some personal information, potentially can. How much can we limit that? Well, in. In. Well, part of the information that you would need would be, for example, like the IP addresses from which these attacks are originating. (12:19–12:37)

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