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“People aren’t prepared because they assume that somebody else will always fix the problem, and they’re usually right,” she said tearfully. “But this time there’s no help out there.”
“So it’s legal to operate a botnet and use them to attack?” “It’s illegal to operate a botnet,” explained Damon, “but it’s perfectly legal to join one, as an individual.
“Anytime there’s even a hint of the government limiting the public’s ability to buy guns, people go crazy about them taking away our freedom, but this new law that gives the government the right to spy into every aspect of your life, without your consent—barely a peep.
In 1910 there were more electric-powered cars on the streets of New York than gas-powered ones, and everyone back then assumed that electric cars were the future—they made a lot more sense than the crazy engines that ran on controlled explosions of volatile, toxic chemicals.
“Sure we did, but now it’s global. You can spend ten billion dollars on a new piece of fancy military equipment, but all it takes is one bright kid with a laptop to disable it.”
“Why didn’t they just make the Internet more secure?”
government and military used to be responsible for protecting a factory from attack by foreign national governments, now they’re asking private industry to take over that responsibility in cyberspace.” He shrugged. “But who’s going to pay for it? And can a private company really protect itself from a hostile nation? Can we as private citizens act as our own armed forces? And what happens when corporations are as powerful as nations?”
“‘If you decide to use fire in battle, make sure that anything you need yourself isn’t flammable.’”
