To be fair, McCain probably picked anonymous for recognizability on the issue, not actual threat level. I mean, how much of the typical republican base would be stirred into a digital patriot act by the PSN hack?
Not that I don't agree with him. Computer and internet security is a bigger and bigger isuee every day with increased dependance on the system to work on both ends. Yet we'd gotten complaciant on things. Sony and other big companies thought they were too big to touch while the rest of us quietly memorized a hundred different alpha numeric passwords while resigning ourselves to the reality we will probably still get a virus or one of our accounts will be hacked at some point. And as more and more information and services exists only in the digitasl cloud, the idea that some twerp can get in, access that data or cut us off from it (including this we paid money for) is very sobering.
Of course, as I said, I question the level of honesty in McCain's statement. Any government run internet police probably won't spend a lot fo time killing viruses, spam or lulzsec, or even the bigger theives, but rather focus on digital piracy and copyright infringment. I don't trust politicans on a good day, and I certainly look for the corporate manipulation behind any thing they say. At a time when we're looking at big cuts to the budget, starting any government beurocratcy seems foolish so I expect an ulterior motive.
Not that I don't agree with him. Computer and internet security is a bigger and bigger isuee every day with increased dependance on the system to work on both ends. Yet we'd gotten complaciant on things. Sony and other big companies thought they were too big to touch while the rest of us quietly memorized a hundred different alpha numeric passwords while resigning ourselves to the reality we will probably still get a virus or one of our accounts will be hacked at some point. And as more and more information and services exists only in the digitasl cloud, the idea that some twerp can get in, access that data or cut us off from it (including this we paid money for) is very sobering.
Of course, as I said, I question the level of honesty in McCain's statement. Any government run internet police probably won't spend a lot fo time killing viruses, spam or lulzsec, or even the bigger theives, but rather focus on digital piracy and copyright infringment. I don't trust politicans on a good day, and I certainly look for the corporate manipulation behind any thing they say. At a time when we're looking at big cuts to the budget, starting any government beurocratcy seems foolish so I expect an ulterior motive.
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