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by gerbil 4789 days ago
Your approach is just so backwards.

The threat from the [insert latest bogeyman's name here] is no reason to limit the freedoms of US citizens or spy upon them. It calls for the administration to take decisive action to prevent unauthorized access to critics systems.

Systems can be easily isolated and access totally restricted to trusted persons only. The rest is for movies.

The real question is why is no one looking at the US administration and asking simply, "why are you not prepared for this?"

Solving these threats along with SPAM and DOS attacks is child's play if you are really serious, yet it is played out in he media as if we can't do anything about it other than restricting personal freedom and creating national citizen surveillance systems.

Blame the boogeyman not the admin.

This approach means that every US citizen is a potential threat the the system and is treated as such making total nonsense of the entire premise of keeping America safe by these means.

I feel lucky that I am NOT a US citizen after all...