Cybersecurity: Demand An Evidence-Based Approach

Beware Secondhand Statistics; Beware Creating Them

In the days before the SOPA blackout a popular meme infected the interwebs:

Dear Congress: It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works

Directed at the US Government this article and its related discussion decried the creation of new legislation founded upon both a lack of understanding and a lack of evidence – challenging behaviour that is also exhibited UK Parliamentarians if not by all governments worldwide.

What the geek community at that time failed to consider was itself as a source of apparent evidence which might be repeated by journalists and/or relied upon by by lawmakers, especially when it lends weight to a higher goal that they wish to achieve.

For a nascent example…

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