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From Carna To Mirai: Recovering From A Lost Opportunity
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12/8/2016 | 12:42:00 PM
Certainly Not Our Only Options?
Living in the open world, the free and open source software world, I am loathe to consider some of the other options that have been thrown out there of late, including introduction of highly proprietary protocols for the Internet and network firmware that would replace current ones.  However, I can't believe that these are our only options.  A recent article I read on the GCHQ and their push to get Internet providers to change protocols to help fight spoofing and its use in DDoS attacks raised the excellent point that in order for this to work, you'd need a global effort that would pull in both hardware and software consortiums across the planet to make changes that would theoretically help make the Internet more secure.  Wow.  I can see the trillions of dollars that go into that project evaporate in a hearbeat when the first exploit gets published on that new infrastructure.  

Not to discount my statement that there must be more options, which I'm starting to talk myself out of, but how about from another angle in which (at least in the US) we provide more protection to White/Grey Hat (ethical) hackers who can actually help through offensive cybersecurity tactics?  Get funds into tactical cybersecurity teams who not only can help, but are willing to put their best efforts forward in analyzing, profiling and attacking hackers and their teams in such a way that they are either quickly found by on-the-ground law enforcement teams, or can't get the resources they need online to perform their hacks.  Not to make a standard Hollywood image of the offensive hacker team seem realistic and easy to put together, but come on, there is a level of reality to this option that is hampered in large part by fear of prison due to our nation's archaic and frankly ill-informed computer-related laws.

I just feel there needs to be a big leap, a massive impact, in order to get ahead of cybercrime; the must-dos and process changes noted here obviously are going to happen, but we need a wall to get raised somehow to help that work not go to waste.


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