a botnet requires thousands of machines (they also exist to produce SPAM, which is kind of pointless on a small local network). a local network for a community is still probably under a few hundred. Not something that can’t be managed or monitored really easily. have you never heard of an IDS or an IPS? Those aren’t intensely difficult to set up nor require super high end hardware. Snort3 is open source and free.
also, it’s easy enough to kick anyone who does that kind of shit to the curb and say “hey, no, you don’t get to be part of the club anymore” when you’re only dealing with a few hundred people.
Fair enough, to be honest I have spent pretty much all of my time in IT/cybersecurity everywhere except for networking so I’m a bit of a dumbass in that regard.
My slowly chiseled distrust of end users honestly makes it incredibly hard for me to believe local communities across the world, and especially more specifically in the US, could be trusted in the 21st century with basic security shit but your last point about not letting them on again was good… although that’s a whole other issue society-wise, like those people will then be a bit shuttered off in other ways and might become pariahs of sorts, one way or another?
Like obviously zero trust would be getting used but there’s a certain amount of trust you have to give to network with anyone, just like IRL.
Edit: at the same time, we have so many overeducated tech workers at this point that we basically have an army of unemployed IT admins waiting to blossom. I’m personally all for this despite my massive worries about it lol.
I mean the weakest link is gonna be the uneducated humans who are on the LAN… no?
a botnet requires thousands of machines (they also exist to produce SPAM, which is kind of pointless on a small local network). a local network for a community is still probably under a few hundred. Not something that can’t be managed or monitored really easily. have you never heard of an IDS or an IPS? Those aren’t intensely difficult to set up nor require super high end hardware. Snort3 is open source and free.
also, it’s easy enough to kick anyone who does that kind of shit to the curb and say “hey, no, you don’t get to be part of the club anymore” when you’re only dealing with a few hundred people.
Fair enough, to be honest I have spent pretty much all of my time in IT/cybersecurity everywhere except for networking so I’m a bit of a dumbass in that regard.
My slowly chiseled distrust of end users honestly makes it incredibly hard for me to believe local communities across the world, and especially more specifically in the US, could be trusted in the 21st century with basic security shit but your last point about not letting them on again was good… although that’s a whole other issue society-wise, like those people will then be a bit shuttered off in other ways and might become pariahs of sorts, one way or another? Like obviously zero trust would be getting used but there’s a certain amount of trust you have to give to network with anyone, just like IRL.
Edit: at the same time, we have so many overeducated tech workers at this point that we basically have an army of unemployed IT admins waiting to blossom. I’m personally all for this despite my massive worries about it lol.