Cybercrime

 

I got to believe that trying to tackle internet cybercrime at its endpoints is never going to effectively solution our growing hacking-ransomware-national security problems ... just too many endpoints ... it would be like trying to boil the ocean.

All internet traffic travels through nodes ... far far fewer than its endpoints. And it is at these nodes where this scourge can and must be stopped. And why we haven’t done this is an enigma. Other countries, notably China and, likely Russia, can control internet traffic to the point it can be shut down countrywide in a nanosecond.

Cisco Systems, which makes most of our internet nodes, should develop AI software that filters all internet digital traffic through its router nodes looking for signature malign patters.

Yes, I am not a network software expert but do realize that,  if done clumsily,  such filters would slow down node throughput speeds ... but specialized hardware and clever massive pattern-recognition logic might minimize significant slowdowns. And most users should accept a little performance degradation for better security.

Possibly if Cisco had spent the $25 million it donated to Black Lives Matter last year, we might be well on our way to a such a solution.

Afterthought: Denial of Service attacks should be very easy to stop using this approach.

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