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Some random web application off the innerwebs just notified me that my mini notebook was in dire danger of being infected with malware. You know, I agree with that. It gave me this nice pop-up window graciously offering to do a hard drive scan for free.
Folks, I’m thinking back to the events of earlier this week, when the DoD finally stopped hounding those three brave men. The time has come for the law we need. And we do really, really need this law. I don’t think we’re going to get anything like it until we reform something in a major kind of way:
For every year the DoD, or the DoJ merely threatens to impose on a peace officer or a military officer for doing bad things to a bad guy — “roughed up a detainee,” “gave a fat lip to a suspect,” et cetera. I want to see seven years of hard time handed down in a sentence to a convicted author of computer malware. I want that codified as a hard quota. To be reconciled at the end of every government fiscal year. With penalties for falling short of it.
Until this happens, I am going to assume the people who wield the power in our country, are the people who don’t do any real work. I’m going to assume these people, right down to the last man/woman, barely know how to turn the fucking thing on. I’m going to assume their priorities are cockeyed because they think a computer is something you use to watch the Hamster Dance, to watch porn, and to look at your own “wall” on the Hello-Kitty-of-Bloggin’. And this is why they don’t know “computer malware” from their own assholes. And so long as they continue to harass the brave men and women who are in the hot spot only because they did what was necessary to protect the country — much more often than not, having been put there under orders, not having specifically volunteered for the mission itself, only for the initial enlistment — I am going to assume the people in power are filthy communists and we need a Joe McCarthy like we’ve never needed one before.
That’s what I’m going to assume until things are done the way I want them done. I’m going to lose respect for ’em every day between this one and that one. Case closed.
Computer malware authors — making license plates, doing prison laundry, turning big rocks into little rocks, being roommate-Bubba’s bitch. Also, the Guantanamo “detainee” should have the same “recourse” that I have against the IRS; which is to say, the system is innocent-’til-proven-guilty, with them it’s the other way around.
Point me to the candidate who will make these into realities, and I will donate some hard money. Show me his or her war chest. I will make it jingle with something shiny. But if we must have wink-wink nod-nod slap-on-wrist justice, let us deliver it to those most deserving of it.
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I thought the entire threat posed by malware authors was…we don’t freaking know who they are. If we did, wouldn’t some government already be prosecuting them?
- cylarz | 05/08/2010 @ 23:23I think the government is aptly representing us here, and the part of us it’s representing is the part nobody really likes. We’re so afraid of offending each other, but we don’t take the time and trouble to provide a vigorous defense where it’s needed.
I’m not bitching about a poor work ethic — Lord knows, computers are not used just for work. But even if you’re using a computer just for looking at nekkid ladies, that’s still an exchange of information. When the rubber meets the road, we don’t value it highly. We’re more concerned about making friends with A by sharing his abhorrence about, and helping him to ostracize, B.
Does anybody think for a minute that if a noose was hung on a black professor’s doorknob at a college, and nobody knew who did it, we’d let it go at that? Even when it’s a hoax, and it usually is, we don’t allow a single month to roll on by before we’ve got it all figured out.
Not asking for the world. I just want malware to be treated as something politically incorrect.
- mkfreeberg | 05/09/2010 @ 06:19