| > As someone who works for the government and whose team is doing nothing but fighting against bad actors, I don't think that's true. We're not doing nothing, that very unfair assessment. I'm just looking at the dozens of billions of dollars lost to scams in the US alone each year [1]. And that's just scams, not the other forms of cybercrime. And Europe isn't much better off. (I won't copy your points for a quote since they're too long) > Globality Agreed. But Western governments, united, could mandate their ISPs and phone traffic to cut off all traffic from these countries. Most international carriers are based in the US and Europe. Guess how long India would take to dismantle their scam callcenters if cut off? A week tops. Russia wouldn't cave, but I see no reason for this country to be connected to the Internet at all, at least not as long as they are invading Ukraine. And China? They've been running rampant with espionage campaigns for years. It's time to accept this declaration of war and retaliate. > Velocity Oh hell yes there are bad actors. Phone providers providing connectivity to scammers and spammers, residential ISPs not acting against abuse reports and thus allowing compromised residential devices (e.g. cheap IoT crap) to continue to attack infrastructure... if I had anything to say, I'd mandate that three credible abuse reports should yield in the disconnection of any Internet participant, and that ISPs were to assist their customers in cleaning their devices. As for domain providers: mandate verification of domain names, and boot off providers that repeatedly violate this requirement. The only thing that reverses profit incentives is serious sanctions. > Money See above. Fine providers that don't respond to abuse requests similar to GPDR, up to 10% of yearly worldwide revenue. If they don't comply and show no credible efforts to become a good citizen of the net, cut them off. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050001/money-lost-to-ph... |