Kirk is going to be able to just walk into his GM ' s office , slap his dick on the desk and hold his hand out for a blank check if he keeps this up . <| sep |> That ' s exactly no threat to anything that doesn ' t welcome massive traffic from any source . I know about the DDoS attacks . That ' s pretty much the opposite of how secured sites work . I get that there is a way , but there is no similarity between those attacks and how you break into a secured site . Absolutely not the same thing , other than they used the Internet . If we get rid of all the guns that people use to shoot each other in the street , that doesn ' t stop car accidents . So if we are worried about car accidents , we don ' t need to ban or restrict guns for that reason . The point is he is talking about security . Large open areas in the internet will never be secure , just like large public events will never be secure . The examples he gives are essentially impossible to protect without ruining them . The things that are important to the general public are protected and cannot be accessed by hacking my thermostat . They can be hacked by people that know what they are doing with the proper equipment . But wait , I didn ' t realize he was only there to talk to them on behalf of internet pioneers and not because he is a member of congress . Therefore I didn ' t read the article . Well , since you did the very hard work of finding a fault in my reading and using it to accuse me of not reading , I guess your entire argument is correct . Good luck in real life , I concede to your mastery of the debating arts .