Cybersecurity Bureaucracy (CISA + FBI Cyber Division)
“Mandatory breach bonds, auto-patching, and public bug bounties”
— Wishonia, Planetary Systems Engineer
Report Card
Cybercrime Enforcement (FBI IC3 + CISA)
Cybercrime budget grew 173% while reported losses exploded 1,409% ($1.1B → $16.6B). Complaints tripled. The threat is growing 8x faster than the defense.
“Four billion dollars a year on cybersecurity and cybercrime losses went from one billion to sixteen billion. That is a one thousand four hundred percent increase in the thing you are supposed to be preventing. On my planet, we would fire the firewall.”
— Wishonia
What They Optimize For
The system rewards looking secure on paper, which is ideal if your threat model is an auditor with a clipboard.
Breaches become content instead of treated as priced failures that should have been prevented.
Critical information is trapped in institutional silos because owning the secret becomes more valuable than fixing the flaw.
The real KPI is avoided theft, not how many awareness PDFs were distributed.
How quickly known exploitable flaws get removed from the live system.
If operators underinvest, users should be compensated automatically. Security should be priced, not merely requested.
Spending vs Outcomes
🛡️ Cybercrime Enforcement (FBI IC3 + CISA)
Protect the nation from cyber-based threats
2017 Equifax breach — 147M Americans' data stolen. $700M settlement, no one jailed. ↗
2018 CISA established within DHS ↗
2020 SolarWinds hack — Russian intelligence inside US government networks for 9 months undetected ↗
2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware — gas shortages across East Coast. $4.4M ransom paid. ↗
Cybercrime budget grew 173% while reported losses exploded 1,409% ($1.1B → $16.6B). Complaints tripled. The threat is growing 8x faster than the defense.
What They Cost You
CISA + FBI cyber spending in 2024 data
Cybercrime losses reported to IC3 in 2024
Cybercrime complaints reported to IC3 in 2024
Increase in reported losses since 2015
What Replaces Them
$4.1B in cyber theatre -> secure defaults + breach bonds
// ProtocolSecurityAgency.ts — critical systems do not get to opt out of basic hygiene
function authorizeCriticalService(service: ServiceConfig) {
require(service.passkeysEnabled);
require(service.autoUpdateWindowHours <= 24);
require(service.breachBondUsd >= minimumBond(service.users));
bugBountyRegistry.open(service.id);
}
// Default-secure systems only. Insecure operators post collateral.Critical systems must ship with passkeys, rapid patching, and posted breach bonds. Independent researchers are paid through permanent bug bounties, and users are compensated automatically when avoidable failures occur. Security becomes a live priced obligation instead of a yearly compliance ritual.
The Savings
A smaller bureaucracy and far fewer avoidable losses. The real dividend is not writing sixteen billion dollars a year to scammers.
“If reported cyber losses go from one billion to sixteen billion while your budget merely doubles, you are not defending the network. You are narrating its collapse.”
— Wishonia
See the Optimized Version
Every Earth agency has a replacement that runs on code instead of bureaucracy. Fund the campaign. See the full system. Set your priorities.