I think you're projecting your own need to create villians.
Let me ask a question: Pretend that you are in some law enforcment position, and it is your responsibility to enforce sensible laws which prohibit vandalism on the internet.
Almost no one is ever truly convicted of violating these laws, and the vandalist know that.
What would you do?
Of course, this assumes that the laws are sensible. I see a lot of postings which explain that it's the fault of the "victims" for having security leaks. This is ridiculous. You could apply that to anything. I suppose that by the same logic - we shouldn't have laws against murder. After all, don't murderer's simply expose the weakness in their victims defenses, thereby helping us all to become stronger?
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I think you're projecting your own need to create villians.
Let me ask a question: Pretend that you are in some law enforcment position, and it is your responsibility to enforce sensible laws which prohibit vandalism on the internet.
Almost no one is ever truly convicted of violating these laws, and the vandalist know that.
What would you do?
Of course, this assumes that the laws are sensible. I see a lot of postings which explain that it's the fault of the "victims" for having security leaks. This is ridiculous. You could apply that to anything. I suppose that by the same logic - we shouldn't have laws against murder. After all, don't murderer's simply expose the weakness in their victims defenses, thereby helping us all to become stronger?