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by b112 5 days ago
Dollar bills are essentially untracked, good everywhere, secure, work no matter what. Same goes for normal mail, and it's a federal offense to tamper with it.

Nothing electronic will ever be secure, unless it is never, ever networked. Networking changes "touch physical thing" into "everyone on the planet plus their bots" can touch it.

Even if you pass harsh laws, you need to geogate network connections to only within that legal jurisdiction. Otherwise, it's pointless.

The real, true problem is anonymousness. I used to advocate for, now I'm done. The problems anonymity solve, are a gnat compared to the ones it creates.

I'm all for ipv8, but with a unique ID in the packet identifying the person directly.

I can't drive a car, own a gun, drive a boat, buy explosives, ply many trades, and 100 other things without a license. Maybe unrestricted internet access is in that category, and bad behaviour means it is revoked.

The Internet was a toy for a long time. Now it's the backbone of all commerce, industry, personal communication, with life threatening implications at times.

Play time is over.

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Botnet operator says "Hey I'll pay you $1000 to use your connection for a month."
And you go to jail.
You might go to jail, you might make $1000. Crimes usually require criminal intent.
I spoke of licensing, for unrestricted internet access. No one will have unrestricted access otherwise.

The criminal intent was giving somebody without a license, access to your gear to spoof you. If someone is too ignorant to not know what that means, then they would never acquire a license.

So no internet for 99% of people? Computer nerds only? You probably don't need any more restrictions with that standard in place. That was the early internet.
No "unrestricted internet" for 99.9% (or even 99.99%) of people.

The massed will still be able to access youtube, google. They won't be able to open random ports without proxies, and yes that means even online gaming is going to be controlled.