> Hacking is a cheap weapon with no answer to it Hacking does have answers (things like DDoS are harder to defend against though). However, those answers tend

> Hacking is a cheap weapon with no answer to it Hacking does have answers (things like DDoS are harder to defend against though). However, those answers tend to require significant resource investment (formal verification, use of software engineering processes that are cost-prohibitive, etc.). The evil despots and states are much more likely to be able to bring these resources to bear if need be than the common people. After all, think back to when cheap weapons were available to all about equally and there weren't much better weapons available even to the rich... it was awful. You couldn't even go from one city to the next without being preyed on by "highwaymen". Seeing the same thing happen on the Internet (where skilled hackers and not "common people" are really in charge) doesn't seem to be as uplifting to me as it seems to be for you.