What I would really like is a "What you can do to help calm the hysteria" post. If you understand what cybercrime attacks really are, you know that it's ludicro

What I would really like is a "What you can do to help calm the hysteria" post. If you understand what cybercrime attacks really are, you know that it's ludicrous to suggest that we're "losing a war". But most people don't, and those people are susceptible to this warmongering. I can explain to my friends why a bunch of teenagers pinging my website too many times is not comparable to a ground invasion of Pennsylvania. But even though this might make them skeptical of the hysteria, it doesn't empower them enough to fight against it. If Washington really is heading towards trying to control the web, what exactly should we, those who know better than to go along with this, be doing to combat it? Somehow writing letters to my congressman just doesn't feel like really getting things done.