From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.)
Oh really? Linux boxes get hacked, too. Who gets sued?
{^_-}
