You are absolutely correct on all points. Yet people need to get angry in order to be motivated enough to cause change. Happy people don't push for change, no

You are absolutely correct on all points. Yet people need to get angry in order to be motivated enough to cause change. Happy people don't push for change, not on these kinds of issues. There has to be a lot of pain felt and verbalized for anyone to take it seriously. Example: US government and all necessarily parties start to shut down --as in kill off-- all packets coming in from China every time there's a large DDoS attack. If it stops, we know the source. And we treat them to a full day of packet blocking to see if the Chinese government might become inspired enough to do something about it. Next time, it's two days. Or maybe a week. This is the kind of thing where pain has to be felt at a high enough level for those who can do something about it to intercede and put an end to it. And, yes, in the end, it's a technological solution. I won't claim to be informed enough to fully understand what has to be changed in terms of protocols, hardware or topology in order to make DDoS a thing of the past. I simply haven't spent any time studying the problem. I'm sure there are lots of people very well versed in the subject who can pitch in. At some level though, I think this has to be criminalized and prosecuted with great consequences for the perpetrators in order to put an end to it. I say this because it is likely that whatever new technology is instituted there will be holes bad actors can exploit.