In typical fashion, the Obama Administration is wringing its hands over the Internet problems and, in typical fashion, it even tried to give control of the Internet to the Russians on a silver platter so it could blame someone else.
I contend that this is one instance where the U.S. needs to become an isolationist. Let's isolate our Internet so that no foreign hackers can penetrate it. In other words, we cut Internet access to anyone and everyone who is not physically within the U.S.
"Oh my!" the naysayers roar. "That will destroy international commerce. People in the U.S. won't be able to email their cousins in Europe!"
Hogwash. All you have to do is to setup an Internet Exchange which can be joined by any business with overseas interests or any resident who wants to send emails overseas. In order to join this exchange, you have to pay a fee, fully identify yourself, be supplied with changing pass-codes, have your computer outfitted with heightened security software, and fully identify your computer to the exchange. By installing an internal code that is assigned by the exchange and changes every time you sign off, the exchange would be extremely difficult to penetrate and would form a firm barrier between the Internets of the U.S. and other countries. With changing codes, "spoofing" would become virtually impossible.
Why haven't we made a move in this direction? Do we suffer from the Syrian Rebel complex?
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.
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