How mafiaboy didn't teach us anything

Got one more question for everyone, and maybe you can help me with this. Why is it wireless B+G+N? Why did they skip letters, and inconsistently, for that matter? Is it random?

As a follow-up to what happened to be my second blog post, apparently some other people feel the same way about placing rules on the internet.

Now, this is something I feel poses a real threat to us, maybe not now, but in the future. Bear with me for a moment. Imagine that you're twenty years in the future. Your life is full of computers, all communicating with each other. Your lights turn on with your alarm, your fridge is able to tell you what to have for breakfast, your car is able to predict the traffic, the whole works. But there is still no actual security on any of this stuff, other than what Norton or whoever is giving you, which really isn't much. Now, imagine some Chinese, Russian, Korean, or any hacker manages to take down the entire computer network for a city, or even a country. Really, everything would grind to a halt. Some cars might crash. Nothing really drastic would happen, except 99% of people would probably have nothing to do until the computers come back up. But who knows how long that would take, if nobody has been taking measures to keep this from happening?

Sound far-fetched? So did taking down Yahoo.com, back in 1999. But then a 15-year-old kid named Michael Calce AKA mafiaboy did it. Yahoo didn't know what to do with it. Neither did Amazon, Dell, Ebay, or CNN. That 15-year-old kid reportedly did over $1 billion worth of damage.

That's pretty much why I feel that the government, the science community, someone should be doing something about the paltry security we have right now on the internet.

But, unfortunately, I don't decide anything.

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