Dev Viperrious wrote:
Their about to put the smack down on the net...which is a double edged sword.
That's what they would love you to think. First of all, there's programs like TOR, making you near untracable. Then there are open proxies, making it also near impossible to trace you. Then there's the combination, which makes it impossible to trace you.
If I setup a connection like that to a server buzzing in some 'we forgot to write any laws concerning computers' country where I rent a high speed connection for near-nothing and spam the world to death it makes it very hard to catch me. Since if I DO get caught, I just make sure the server is running a few legit websites, and show traces of being hacked.... so there's plausible deniability.
Internet cannot be controlled. It can only be policed, and that's in cybercrime 9 out of 10 times tracing the bad guys, after they did what they came for. (If you ever detect them at all)
So thinking that those people can protect you in any way is dangerous. They are very good in copyright issues regarding games / mp3 / etc. on peer-to-peer networks. So instead of fighting any real cyber crime they get sciptkiddies that manage to copy a website and lure people to login there, and the people sharing (default for all file sharing apps) their downloads, and the occasional dumb sob that is careless.
The hacker that steals corporate data and sells it is rarely caught. They are not hackers, they are security professionals, on the other team.
So stop trusting others, and start caring for your own security. Especialy on something as a PERSONAL computer, which contains a lot about your PERSON.
Just a few concerned thoughts regarding what I interpreted as a false sence of security.