Some silly responses here. If someone breaks into your house, do you ask them for their ID? Sheesh! Hackback is a reasonable and responsible interim response to a problem that is costly and unnecessary. Let the "authorities" take care of it? Which world did you come from? The authorities/lawyers go where money is, and lots of it. The Internet community, who love Linux because it's free, aren't willing/capable of funding the kind of legal talent needed to initiate a fight. And if you think you can educate your representitive to act, you must be the head of a very powerful lobby somewhere. Hackback, by its very nature is controlled and is perfectly capable of being configured to minimize any damage and just disable the offending machine in order to motivate its owner to take appropriate action. It's far cheaper and much more logical than placing the financial burden on all of us. If you've chosen not to invest in antivirus software or any protection, you should shoulder the cost. Of course, we could install metering and charge you for bandwidth consumed but I suspect you're better off paying a small bill to have your machine de-bugged. Bandwidth is expensive! By the way, I despise the tactics of the NRA, so whoever made that rediculous argument has erred in their generalizations, as usual. All I can offer in closing is the disclaimer: That's my just my opinion.....I could be right.

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