Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

[Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>]

On 6/9/2010 01:11, JC Dill wrote:
> Owen DeLong wrote:
> > Heck, at this point, I'd be OK with it being a regulatory issue. 
>
> What entity do you see as having any possibility of effective regulatory 
> control over the internet?

Doesn't matter as long as it enables radial outbound finger pointing.

> The reason we have these problems to begin with is because there is no 
> way for people (or government regulators) in the US to control ISPs in 
> eastern Europe etc.

Or in the US.
But what we see here is what is what is wrong with "regulation"--the
regulated specify the regulation, primarily to protect the economic
interests of the entrenched.


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