I should print this out and frame this on my wall: "Why our industry is insular and tunnel visioned."
Entrepreneurialism in the vast majority of this country, let alone the world, is not at all related to computers, the internet, cloud services, or any such hoo-hah.
We exist in a little tiny sphere in a little tiny corner of all that is small businesses.
The vast majority of entrepreneurialism that happens in the world has real costs and a need for real capital. Try running a corner store when you have no money to buy inventory, or pay rent on the space.
Back in 2006 my brother and I started a business with $0 upfront cost.
1and1 at the time was running a deal for 3 years free hosting. We made a site on there, put up AdSense, made enough money to buy a domain. Then made enough money to upgrade to paid shared hosting, and then dedicated hosting. It's still profitable today.
I'm not here to convince you otherwise if you dislike reading, but for many it's not as black and white as you present. In fact most of the greatest hackers I've ever met were also among the most voracious readers (Rich Hickey included).
In doing, there is a lot of reading. Every line of code you write you will likely read dozens of times. And if you are writing anything significant, they will be read many more times by others.
"We have noted that similar attacks have also been carried out against Wikileaks itself, yet so far, nobody has been arrested in connection with these attacks, nor are there even any signs of an investigation into this issue at all,"
I think that is one of the most important points of this article.
For a law enforcement agency to investigate the Wikileaks would require Wikileaks to turn over their server access logs, including every visitor to the site for the period of time in question. They would be basically finished in terms of getting dissidents to visit the site or hand over information if they're seen as turning over any sort of visitor-identifying info to any sort of law enforcement agency.
If neither the perpetrator nor the servers are in the U.S., theres not likely to be any jurisdiction, but it's not actually necessary for the targeted servers to be in the U.S.; it's sufficient for jurisdiction for the (alleged) perpetrator to be operating from the U.S.
I meant, does anyone investigate them end-to-end, and not just in their own country? I find it hard to believe that the FBI interacts well with law enforcement in, say, Poland.
well the RCMP and the FBI work together very closely, for one. An American FBI agent can get more done in Canada through RCMP connections than a rich and powerful Canadian can.
Yes, and vice versa, lets say the RCMP needs someone sent to Syria for 'questioning', then they'd phone the FBI and tip them off that such a person is coming to the US. And the FBI would promptly send them to Syria for 'questioning' of course also ignoring their citizenship and duty to deport people back to their country of citizenship.
I know it's hard to believe, but law enforcement of different countries indeed does cooperate really well, often even if these countries don't have very good diplomatic relationships.
