I dont understand....we have the people with the intelligence to set up a damn good defensive wall. On top of that we have the people who know how to make seekers. You have an un-named asian country that look for kids with a natural gift for computers and training them to be hackers. The families get compensation for letting there kids go with them. This is dangerous, and something needs to be done to increase our defenses on-line. The entire world uses the internet that was created and maintained in the US. There should be an entire devision in the government that makes sure it stays safe. The UN has already in the past asked the US to turn control of the internet over to them, the answer was "No." and I agree with that. But what this artical is talking about is dropping a real bomb on the " target". What if its a Zombie computer? and we just blew up an entire building in ohhhh i dont know maybe south Korea? This is a flawed Idea. online attacks need to be meet with online attacks or an internationl team of Cyber cops that have the ability to go in to most countries to investigate leads. Not dropping live explosive devices on the place. Again I state we have the ability to do something about this online. Most laptops come with cams installed right? a program that can access the cams take snap shots following the line or retreat of the said "hacker".( such a garish term) or how about the people who are network savvy join together to protect what is ours? a civilian group comprised of on-line net savvy individuals working as a group to Thwart these attacks. there is no law against that! But a explosive device for something like this is not going to work. Its to easy to ghost and spoof, too many variables come into play then. innocent people will get physically hurt.
One last thing...they are not bots they are peoples computers! Just call them what they are because they are talking about a physical reaction to a cyber cause
* these are just my initial thoughts.*
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I dont understand....we have the people with the intelligence to set up a damn good defensive wall. On top of that we have the people who know how to make seekers. You have an un-named asian country that look for kids with a natural gift for computers and training them to be hackers. The families get compensation for letting there kids go with them. This is dangerous, and something needs to be done to increase our defenses on-line. The entire world uses the internet that was created and maintained in the US. There should be an entire devision in the government that makes sure it stays safe. The UN has already in the past asked the US to turn control of the internet over to them, the answer was "No." and I agree with that. But what this artical is talking about is dropping a real bomb on the " target". What if its a Zombie computer? and we just blew up an entire building in ohhhh i dont know maybe south Korea? This is a flawed Idea. online attacks need to be meet with online attacks or an internationl team of Cyber cops that have the ability to go in to most countries to investigate leads. Not dropping live explosive devices on the place. Again I state we have the ability to do something about this online. Most laptops come with cams installed right? a program that can access the cams take snap shots following the line or retreat of the said "hacker".( such a garish term) or how about the people who are network savvy join together to protect what is ours? a civilian group comprised of on-line net savvy individuals working as a group to Thwart these attacks. there is no law against that! But a explosive device for something like this is not going to work. Its to easy to ghost and spoof, too many variables come into play then. innocent people will get physically hurt. One last thing...they are not bots they are peoples computers! Just call them what they are because they are talking about a physical reaction to a cyber cause * these are just my initial thoughts.*