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LM
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12th January 2015 | 4:51am

State and national policing is not well matched with the transnational nature of hacking. In some ways, this reflects the era of train and bank robbers in the western territories of the USA in the nineteenth century, who operated outside of the reach of an effective police force. The way that banks and railroads responded was to hire the paramilitaries of the day - detective agencies such as the Pinkertons - to deliver a physical threat to the bad actors and thereby to warn off would-be bad actors. Cybersecurity will continue to be an issue until hackers fear for their physical safety. Sadly, that probably means that large corporations or consortia of such will have to use some manner of mercenary forces to track down and "discourage" (that is, injure or kill) hackers. Presumably, once a few dozen hackers have lost their hands and their eyes, or been summarily executed, the downside of being a hacker will start to be a meaningful counterbalance to the current upside - financial and status - of being a hacker.