Internet Security. A Waste of Money?

[Geek-9pm]

Internet Security. A Waste of Money?
Now if I took that position, Whould you agree?
 
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The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the
Internet's routing system, with plans this year for the Department of
Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding
digital signatures to router communications
The blurb is from a reliable source in the internet. Rather that give a link, 
I would invite you to do your own research. Or just make a comment without any research.

In view of the present economical problems, would this not be
a big waste of money?

The Internet is already as safe as it will ever be.
Do you agree? 

[BC_Programmer]

Digital Signatures never worked for ActiveX... Don't see how you would add digital signatures to a router system anyway.


And besides, the internet is a Global network, and as much as the U.S likes to think otherwise they have no jurisdiction as to the network infrastructure of other countries, so it would just be a waste of money. Unless of course they are actually tapping into the internet infrastructure for "big brother" monitoring... but that's another story altogether

[spacecat9]

they will catch and trace heap of people for doing heaps of stuff. its probably a good idea. but some one will hack it. they hack every thing. so yeah it will work but if you really wont to there always a way. a hacker never quits it just increases the fun.   

[Geek-9pm]

Yep. If they make the internet safer, the crooks will go back to breaking and entering our homes. In some cities apartment houses already look like jails. All the iron bars and gates.