There's talk in Congress of seriously upping the penalties for this kind of cyber-warfare. Of course it smacks of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped. But maybe a few serious books thrown at hackers they do catch, huge fines and significant jail time, might deter the others.
You want state run propaganda busting hackers, to detour hacking. That sounds like a win.
Did I SAY that? Where do I talk about PROPAGANDA? This isn't about POLITICS. It's about protecting Internet users from jerks who interfere with their enjoyment of the Internet. It's the old saw that holds that everybody can do whatever they want as long as it doesn't hurt another person. Yeah, that's a very general statement of principle and I'm NOT interested in getting into a debate about the endless specific exceptions that can be raised against this principle. But it's reasonable to me that people who disrupt legitimate Internet activities for thousands of people need a bit harsher response than they've been getting so far.
Most of the government proposals lately have been specific to cyber-warfare, i.e. implementing attacks on foreign governments (China, North Korea, Iran, maybe even Israel in some cases) who are implicated in attacks against American government agencies, businesses and interests. But since it would be so easy for a hostile government to disguise their attacks under the guise of being some ghostly group of hackers, I think the proposals would have to allow for that.
But what this has to do with propaganda is only in your mind, JJ.
