re: #561 KT Smells like Roses and Rainbows

Well, as Sergey pointed out, a hell of a lot of Anon is abroad. A lot of them are probably in countries that aren’t pally-pally with the US, like China, Russia, and even if they’re a country we’re very close to, they’re going to be leery about cracking down on their own citizens at the behest of another country, when cyber-cases tend to be very hard to prosecute at the best of times.

We could round up every actual hacker who does actual hacks and there’d still be a whole world of hackers out there. Arresting black-hat hackers is a good idea, and internet law needs a makeover so that can be a reality more often, but the internet doesn’t stop at the water’s edge; we need to be safe from the same sort of attacks from abroad. This is not an area where the US can promise to defend its citizens. It’d take a coordinated world-wide effort to sort out the tangled mess of international law as it applies to the internet.