Universities ‘need joint security teams to counter cyber threat’

Could we apply the same logic to heavy speeding fines on motorists here. You speed at 50 in a 30 zone, the odds are nothing will happen, but 1in 100,000 times you kill someone, so we have penalties, fines, even banning, for what seems a trivial victimless offence. With hackers, they get away with it 99,999 times in 100,000 so there is a strong incentive to try an attack. So for any hacking, have truly draconian penalties, like 10 years prison, then far fewer people would dare try it despite the low odds of being caught. And make cryptocoin providers like Bitcoin have a backup register that - with a suitable court order - the Govt can access, and trace who was paid what by whom - at some point Bitcoin has to be converted into real currency and that is where we could catch the hackers.

No mention of operating systems again.