Perhaps. Like I said, government sanction should be irrelevant, because it is undetectable. Not many groups have the motive and capability to hack the Chinese and Russians. I would just love to see what either would do if they found the hackers after paying $100M in tariffs.

This is simply a logical version of physical damage, an act of war. A couple of hackers with their skins removed would do wonders for the behavior of the rest of the little pip-squeak hackers, and monetary penalty would significantly deter the government funded, unless the penalty pales in comparison to the outcome of the crime.

Do you think defense is the only/right solution?

Jan, the NSA creates lots and lots of tool for their very own use, and it was one of 6 of them that was leaked from them, and tried to be sold on the dark web, failed, and then was openly posted, and a few weeks later, wannacry came out. They do have the ability to track and identify anyone, for anything, when they want. The sheer number of attacks that go untracked, and unpunished is why they keep doing it, sort of like street robbery, until you have enough cops on the street, it will go on. You can board up your windows, and lock your doors, but sometimes they still break in. Thats when you need your own shotgun. Some techy needs to develop a nuke package that can deliver itself back to the criminals, and explode in their own system and put up a mushroom cloud on their screens with "You're Dead".

Should do the same with Muslims. Condemn and police your own, or you are part of the problem.

Send the bill. If they don't pay, tariff them.

I won't use chrome (or anything google if I can help it) so I run Ice Dragon and like it well enough. Comodo also offers an integrated Anti-virus with a cloud scan feature. I just started using their AV but it seems to work well and has a lighter footprint on my system than Avast ever did.

Did you read about the Comodo's problems before you installed it? They're all fixed now, right? I take classes in hacking, cross-site scripting, Wireshark, stuff like that, and I do not think that I could read a million lines of code and find the hidden traps... How about you?

Well, that was a question I also saw, their article pretty much summed it up, advertising or something else. Although they have left one model off the table that may well be applicable, CCCLean does it: Offer a free version, and then sell a "Pro" or enhanced version, I have one license for the pro because it is a nifty little tool for getting nasty programs that just do not want to die, to go away, as well as a good Reg cleaner. I used to swear by System Mechanic but they made some change so it always tells you you have a billion files on your hardrive that are not sequenced and wants to do it every day, and it trashed one install on my PC. When I contacted them, they told me that was the way it works, and were not seeming to understand their own product. Goodby Sys Mech....

For my 60th birthday this wednesday celebrated yesterday when I received a canvas that said 60 reason why we love you attached to it. One was from my son in law who wrote "I love it when you being funny will shout out" bastards" any time Lauren ( daughter) says she has a problem with someone. They also like my spaghetti dinners.The rest of the notes I will treat as "fake news". Haha

I just get a bit more subtle and use "dastards".

I certainly will agree! For fun I will add a favorite of mine from our friend OUC and a twist at the end.
The great unwashed miscreants that share a clitellum and are hermaphrodites.