Garfield says he’s still hopeful about the bill’s future and Reitman says the EFF’s goal is to have a voice in whatever bill the Senate considers.

That said, Jennifer Martinez, technology policy reporter for , says Democratic sources told her that CISPA is “basically dead on arrival” because of the privacy concerns associated with it. She also says that nothing will happen with CISPA at least for the next week because the Senate is currently in recess and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said the issue will get picked up sometime in May.

What’s most likely to get attention first, Martinez says, is a bill by Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) that supports a different method of evading and mitigating cyber threats.

“The main difference is that the core component [of Lieberman’s bill] puts new security mandates on operators of critical infrastructures [such as] utilities companies, [and] possibly water plants [whereas] CISPA is focused on improving information sharing about cyber threats between the government and industries so it doesn’t have that piece that addresses security gaps in critical infrastructures,” she says.