jdow wrote:
Who is going to file the first lawsuit against an owner of a zombied system for sending spam? It should be interesting legal theater.
You might get somewhere in a civil suit if you could prove that you were somehow damaged by this spam and for some reason you were unable to defend yourself against it while expecting the sender to be able to.
I wouldn't count on a jury to understand the concept, or to agree that all owners of computers should be expected to know more than the vendor or OS distributer about computer science and pick appropriate add-ons - or that anyone should be required to reinstall their OS at the frequency needed to get the fedora updates necessary to maintain security.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
