Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet

An anonymous reader writes "Former FBI Agent Patrick J. Dempsey warns that the Internet has become a sanctuary for cyber criminals and the only way to rectify this is to create a second, more secure Internet. Dempsey explains that, in order to successfully fight cyber crime, law enforcement officials need to move much faster than average investigators and cooperate with international law enforcement officials. The problem is various legal systems are unprepared for the fight, which is why he claims we must change the structure of the Internet."

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MSN

[suckmysav]

Perhaps they should contact Stevie B. He might have the old MSN blueprints handy from the mid nineties. I'm sure he'd be thrilled at having a second shot at replacing the internet.

Better Way.....

[IHC Navistar]

This idea is simply throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Since a relatively few internet users are cybercriminals, it make no sense to spy on EVERYONE as if they were cybercriminals.

Instead of punishing every internet user by puttign them under continuous scrutiny, why not punish the criminals themselves by making the penalties far more threatening: 25 years hard labor, no parole or probation.

I mean, think about it: Make cybercriminals work for 14 hours a day in the fields (hand tools only).....for 25 years. The prospect of spending 25 years of pulling weeds, picking cotton in the south, shoveling snow in Siberia, or breaking rocks with a small hammer in the middle of Utah would scare the shit out of anyone running scams, spamming, stealing data, or running botnets.

Evans spammers Ralsky and Catts openly admitted that they would keep on spamming no matter what.

Bottom line, get caught and:

MANDATORY Full restitution. (You got paid, now its time for your victims to get paid back.)

MANDATORY Fine amounting to %50 of total worth/value. (Not exactly a parking ticket. All of it goes to schools)

MANDATORY 25 years hard labor. $0.01 per year payment. (Giving them 3 years in an air conditioned building won't make the message stick)

MANDATORY Complete asset forfeiture/seizure (Anything in your possesion, being controlled by you, or with your name on it. Goes to paying for your expenses. Anything remaining when you are discharged goes to schools).

MANDATORY residence in an outdoor prison camp. (24/7, like the one in Arizona or New Mexico)

NO Parole. (You're in for the whole trip)

NO Probation. (You screw up, you're screwed)

NO Visitation. (You are NOT on vacation)

NO "Special Needs" segregation. (You will all be treated equally)

NO Mail. (except legal documents).

NO Motorized/mechanized tools, only hand tools. (You didn't think we'd make it that easy, did you?)

NO Luxuries (heating/air conditioning, T.V., radios, rec yards). (If there are law abiding citizens that can't afford this, then you can't either)

ALL medical/legal/incarceration expenses are paid for by your seized assets. When your money runs out, so does your medical care. If you die in custody, you cannot will any of your assests; The Government gets it all and it ALL goes to schools (NO reappropriation). (Hey, there are law abiding people who don't even HAVE medical care. If you get sick you pay for it just like everybody else.)

NON-U.S. born citizens have ther citizenship permanently revoked, deported to wherever they came from, and banned from ever reentering the U.S. (We didn't let you become a citizen just to screw everyone else over. You blew your chance.)

Same meal served 3 times a day, 7 days a week: Governemnt Cheese, water, fortified bread. (There are law abiding people who are starving, so you shouldn't complain)

Work from 1 hour before sunup to 1 hour after sundown (Crime sucks, doesn't it?)

The only possesions inmantes are allowed to have are blankets, pillow, basic toiletries, and a thin mattress. (Prison is not your home. The lights go out when the sun goes down)

If this was applied to criminals inside the U.S., nobody would think about getting caught running a botnet or SPAM server in the U.S. (or commiting any other serious felony) Plus, if someone is caught outside the U.S., have them extradited and put to work here. Even more, other countries might implement it as a way to make the punishment the same everywhere, making it too risky and too expensive to run such cybercrime operations.

The problem with the prison system is not that sentance are too long, it's that prison isn't as terrifying enough a place to make it a good deterrent and get the message to stick. Prisoners are property of the State until their sentence is done. Period. If you don't like it, then you should have thought about that BEFORE you decided to break the law.

It's high time to punish the people who break the law, and stop punishing the people who don't. I'm not a criminal so stop treating me like one. Put a prisons' worth of inmates to work on farms, open pit strip mines, and quarries and you could cut out the need for all the fuel-guzzling heavy equipment.