Let’s solve cybercrime in all its forms

Our current issues with cybercrime have multiple roots and solving the big picture problem will take more than making stabs at one or another issue. Think of it as solving a Rubik’s Cube. You have to solve all sides of the cube simultaneously if you expect success. Arranging all the red or blue squares for example on one side, will still leave you with 5 sides looking like a dog’s breakfast. Many of the challenges facing humanity right now are of the Rubik’s Cube variety yet we persist at attacking them like different versions of Whack-a-Mole. I should write a separate piece about that!

The latest in-coming at the Facebook bunker comes from friendly fire. Co-founder, and luckiest Harvard roommate ever, Chris Hughes, last week called for Facebook’s breakup in the New York Times. And as welcome as this call to action might be, it’s not the first and, like others, it might be wide of the mark, not because Facebook doesn’t need fracturing but because a breakup done poorly or without sufficient consideration might do no good or even produce more harm.

We’re going through some growing pains with the whole cyber world and taking stabs at one or another solution can cause great harm not least due to the inadequacy of taking a silver bullet approach. You know, if we could only do this one thing everything else would be fine. This approach barely works in medicine and has no hope of success even in something as mundane as dieting. We need a comprehensive cyber-solution and this article envisions what one might look like.