Expelling Russia from the U.S. is irresponsible and excessive. It's interesting to me that no serious efforts have ever been made to prevent and punish those who have been committing online fraud and identity theft from places like Russia, China and the Middle East, daily and consistently, for the past decade. Yet when someone in Russia hacks the offices of the DNC and publically releases emails that should never have been sent in the first place, we respond childishly and without foresight by throwing their diplomats out of the country.
This is not a game of Dungeons and Dragons. Contrary to what one might learn from TV shows and the mainstream media, computer hacking isn't magic. Russian High Priestess Katerina didn't cast a magical spell giving Warmage Putin access to the DNC servers.
These cyber attacks were completely preventable. The DNC was notified repeatedly by the FBI that they had been attacked and who the perpetrators were.
Wouldn't it would be more appropriate to harden our systems than to expect other countries not to try to hack us? Can we prevent EVERYONE who wants to hack us from trying? Wouldn't it be more effective to shrug our shoulders, harden our systems, and tell the world that the only systems the Russians can hack are the poorly-maintained systems at the DNC?
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