David G. Miller wrote: > Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hey, it's the US, anyone can sue anyone for anything. Whether you could >> win would be another question. And even if you won, you probably wouldn't >> make money on the deal. > Not saying this is the perfect solution but think about what happens if > we start holding people liable for the damages caused by their zombified > Windoze box... Right now, they have almost no incentive to firewall > their systems, have an effective anti-virus program running, etc. If > you could get sued for the damages your box inflicts on others, people > who don't know what they're doing might start *asking* their ISP to stop > them from doing any harm and let them know if there's a problem. > This is as opposed to the current situation where everyone involved > sticks their head firmly in the sand (or elsewhere) and decides it's > somebody else's problem. Turning a blind eye to bot nets and zombies is > just nuts. The idiots who provide electricity and an internet > connection to a bot or zombie need to get charged for the pain they > allow others to get hit with. They aren't victims; they're part of the > problem. > A better idea - hold the company that produced the defective software that allows this to happen. After all, they spent how much convincing people that all you need to do is "point and click" to administer a Windows box... (OK - with what they can spend on lawyers and their political clout, you couldn't win in the U.S.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
