What's government's role in making the Web secure?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's no kill switch for the Internet, no secret on-off button in an Oval Office drawer....

By LOLITA C. BALDOR

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I say it should be zero.

 

There has to be some. Otherwise things like electrical grids, traffic control systems, water supplies, and other infrastructure could be open to attack.

There have already been test attacks by China, Russia and North Korea on US systems.

Russia used these techniques on Georgia prior to the invasion, to disrupt their systems.

 

I KNOW!!!!

That totally sucked donkey balls, man! There I was watching "Donkey Show 2: Electric Boogaloo" and without notice my PC crashed.

(grinningface)

 

I thought you said we were supposed to refer to it as "Equestrian Erotica" now?

You know, since you're such a PC kind of a guy and all.

(smirkingface)

 

Wrong Georgia.

 

The first thing to remember is those who would be smart enough to completely secure things would never work for the Government, at least not for very long.

The people who are that good can make 300k for the Government, or millions in the private sector, it does not take a genious to figure out the private sector will always be able to get past anything the Government does if they really want to.


The second thing is why can there be local protections? Why does the Government need to have control over "everything"? Why not let these systems stay closed to outside connections? Keep humans in the loop and don't try to automate everything where the automation makes us vulnerable to outside attacks of this nature?




As far as the probes by China, why not hire the private sector to hack China as a response? We got some scary guys out there, I know several of them from my game hacking/ game emulator circles who can hack into just about anything if they really want to.