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You would think that a way to stop these kinds of attacks for pennies on the dollar would be to have the security companies, banks, retail stores and others inv
by startupfounder 13y ago
You would think that a way to stop these kinds of attacks for pennies on the dollar would be to have the security companies, banks, retail stores and others involved on the receiving side of these attacks fund hackathons or startup accelerators in every country, like a startup weekend, to give these "kids" a chance at legal startups and to get paid for finding bugs.
- samstave 13y agoWe spend how many hundreds of billions on the NSA so they can slurp all the worlds data? Why not force them to secure all networks?
- gknoy 13y agoI do not think that we would want the result of that.
- samstave 13y agoHA the jokes on you! We already HAVE the result of that. In all serious though, just be thankful you're still alive you unappreciative uppity citizen; at least you haven't been killed by a terrorist yet.
- readysetgo 13y agoPeople don't often die from terrorism. He is much more likley to die from diabities, heart disease, cars or a gun shot. More toddlers with guns have killed Americans this year than terrorist have. If we are trying to save lives, worrying about terrorism is a waste of money.
- luminiferous 13y agoI'm fairly certain he was being facetious.
- readysetgo 13y agoI would hope so, but even so the character hes playing isn't clever.
- rayiner 13y agoIf you're going to ignore chilling effects, then by that reasoning the NSA surveillance is totally harmless. That's a ridiculous argument. The Beltway sniper killed 10 people in 2002, a fraction of the number who died in car accidents that year. But tens of thousands of people had their lives disrupted as they ducked down while filling up at gas stations.
- readysetgo 13y agoI don't see how your logic follows at all. Car crashes in 2002 were in the range of 30,000 deaths. Which is orders of magnitude higher than the sniper. So in my opinion we shouldn't waste money on NSA wiretapping that doesn't stop terrorism (because if it did it would have stopped the Boston Bombing) and instead invest that time and money into transportation infrastructure. By doing that we would save more lives, improve our economy and most importantly still have constitutional freedoms.
- rayiner 13y agoOur whole DOD budget is only 600-700 billion, so its unlikely we spend "hundreds of billions" on the NSA. Estimates are 8-10 billion: http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillance-cost/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillanc....
- Retric 13y agoThat's hardly de DoD budget as it ignores a lot of rather costly items like the VA.