The argument in this post sounds nice, but it falls apart when it meets reality.

The problem with the internet is that now, everyone is right next door.
There is no Poland in between. Physically, the attacker and the victim could be anywhere in the world, on the internet, they share a wall in their flats.

Most of the dangerous hacking is happening at the behest of big govern-cement agencies. It isn't a bunch of kids anymore. It is big interests with big money. Enough money to bribe, jail, turn friend on friend, and hire any number of "men in black" to come knock on your door in the middle of the night.

The danger is that we live in a technical age with very few people being technically savvy. All of those DHS hospitals, why do they have those computers connected to the internet? All buildings with any security necessities, should have two networks. One for all the people going to facebook, and one for all the internal machines to talk to each other. And there should be no connection between the systems.

But that would cost too much, everyone complains. With BRIX costing $300 and tablets $40, this is not an argument, this is just bureaucrats being cheap.

Further, winders is compromised. No one with any security need to should touch the thing.

So, we live in a world, where everyone lives next door to everyone else, and almost everyone leaves their doors open.

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And the most important piece, is that armed responses to cyber attacks already happens. They are just done quiet like by the Cocain Import Agency and its foreign cohorts. But, these responses aren't meant to stop them, they are used to subvert them.