First of all, there are better ways to deal with anything than privateering. There’s a reason why all countries in the world have abandoned it.

Secondly, everybody is operating under the assumption that cybercrime is something that happens and there’s no way around it. I contend that if software vendors were penally responsible for vulnerabilities in their software, you’d see a dramatic reduction in hacks very, very quickly.

As in, if a piece of software is exploited, the engineers who worked on it, their managers and the CEO of their company had better come up with extensive documentation proving how they did their best to implement security before releasing the unfortunate piece of code, else one or all of that bunch gets to spend time in the slammer.

If this was implemented into law, I guarantee you software would become very secure across the board in no time flat.

But of course, in the age of tech monopolies and generalized corruption, it will never happen.

It’s almost like socialism. In the name of preserving national corporate interests.

A kind of national socialism if you will…

This is where the very word Fascism comes from: fasces in latin means bundle - the bundling of state and private sector together. The government and private companies in cahoots is one of the core features of any fascist regime.

Hmm nationalization… That’s so Republican…

If you ever needed proof that MAGA ≠ GOP, this is it. The Republican party has disappeared off the radar.