Blue Security Gives up the Fight

bblboy54 writes "According to The Washington Post, Blue Security has closed its doors, which can be confirmed by the Blue Security application failing to work today and their domain no longer resolving. Blue Security's CEO is quoted in the article: "It's clear to us that [quitting] would be the only thing to prevent a full-scale cyber-war that we just don't have the authority to start," Reshef said. "Our users never signed up for this kind of thing." You have to wonder where it goes from here. It seems an effective method has been found but more than a small private company could handle. Will someone else adapt this concept, or does the internet world give up?"

Comments

Re:Spammers are the virtual mobsters.

[NineNine]

I doubt you'll see that. Law enforcement is pretty dumb (especially in the US). If it doesn't involve muscle, beatings, guns, and any other kind of physical violence, they pretty much have no idea how to deal with it. Government employees are, by definition, NEVER the Best and the Brightest. This is a war that law enforcement has no chance to win. Hell, even a government as centralized as China can't control the Net like they'd like to! What makes you think that the brain dead people in say, the FBI could figure out what an IP address is?

Re:wow

[Blue Stone]

> All else being equal, the bad guys win more often than the good guys because they are willing to cheat and use tactics that are out of bounds for the good guys.

You forgot to cite: - 'A Rebuplican Guide to Getting and Staying in Power'