The Koobface gang’s freedom underscores how hard it is to apprehend international computer criminals
Oh, yes - the problem is the international criminals who run botnets, not the poor hapless American ISPs who somehow just can't do anything about identified botnet hosts.
If only there were some way for the American government to be given tools to protect defenseless Americans from evildoers abroad!
What does SOPA have to do with this? SOPA is meant to battle copyright and trademark infringement, not 'cybercrime' in general. Making SOPA into something that it's not isn't an effective way to fight it.
SOPA doesn't fight cybercrime! It attempted to allow US authorities to block access to people who provided counterfeit or unlicensed copywritten work. That's all.
I hate to be that guy, but really? You're suggesting that people be killed for supposedly infecting machines and spreading malware? They should be brought to justice; that's not the same as murder.
The group cleverly harnessed the infrastructures of powerful online services — from Facebook and Twitter to Google’s search engine and Blogger — to do the heavy lifting, and may have run its enterprise with just a few computers.
Some time ago there was a curious thread on Reddit, about multiple accounts and subreddits with thousands of posts looking like hash strings, somebody suggested those were encrypted instructions for botnets.
Oh, yes - the problem is the international criminals who run botnets, not the poor hapless American ISPs who somehow just can't do anything about identified botnet hosts.
If only there were some way for the American government to be given tools to protect defenseless Americans from evildoers abroad!