What is Being Done to Penalize Hackers?

storp

storp

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Clearly it won't stop (or at least slow down) until strict measures are taken with the perpetrators, so what is being done about it?

Anything?
 
that's great for the U.S. - But with that comes from overseas.

I for one would be willing to exclude users access in certain countries - those that don't enforce laws against them. Generally I'm really not in favor of regulation until it comes to something like this.

As an idea, hosts can exclude users by country, so why can't internet providers?
 
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storp said:
that's great for the U.S. - But with that that comes from overseas.

I for one would be willing to exclude users access in certain countries - those that don't enforce laws against them. Generally I'm really not in favor of regulation until it comes to something like this.

As an idea, hosts can exclude users by country, so why can't internet providers?
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It won't make no diff storp. yes, country's are blocked but we will never stop it. It will always happen. Always did and always will. Also if the government can't stop it then im positive a provider never will.
 
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tremmor said:
It won't make no diff storp. yes, country's are blocked but we will never stop it. It will always happen. Always did and always will. Also if the government can't stop it then im positive a provider never will.
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Can appreciate what you're saying tremmor. There is always spoofing, I guess...elaborately linking of servers, and all of that. Or just drop in on an administrators home pc, or something similar.

But as a basic, to at least make a serious attempt at putting a dent in stopping this - it seems to me they'll have to next be able to positively identify each internet user and his or her origin, period. And then you get into a whole new argument of "fairness".

Personally for the big hacks, like on major companies, I think they rarely break encryption. They just snag a user name and password and do a database dump.

There should be measures put in place even for admins, what they do and don't do, in situations where many other people are put at risk.

Too much is left to personal discretion.
 
I think the feds headed by U.S. Cyber Command should have a bunch of honey pots to learn how hackers are getting into system and to prevent it. The U.S. has some very scary insecure networks, namely SCADA.

Why I bet my home connection is more secure with what I have deployed.
 
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