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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by 3pt14159 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @02:58PM (#12687478)
That's a slippery slope argument. I know regulating tech is not going to be popular here, and maybe we leave it for corporations that are valued at over a certain amount, but right now foreign governments are hacking our financial services companies, communications companies, phones, laptops, everything. 95% of the time a it's an extremely easy hack that would have been discovered by a routine scan.
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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by astrodust on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:06PM (#12687551)
There's an important distinction between "regulating" as in setting prices, and "regulating" as in setting the rules of the competitive marketplace.

For example: You can't sell phones that explode. You can sell phones that are cheaper than the competition.

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