Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s revised Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is worse than the original version he unveiled in April. That one drew well-deserved derision from civil liberties advocates left and right, as well as from Silicon Valley executives fearful that their company assets would be confiscated by government fiat. The West Virginia Democrat’s new version is full of vague legislative language that is the public-policy equivalent of throwing the barn door open to horse thieves. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Lee Thien told CNET: “The language has changed but it doesn’t contain any real additional limits. It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous.” Thien adds that the bill contains no administrative or appeals process to limit what he describes as the “amorphous” powers granted to the president.