I love IP Tables....

[jdow]

From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>

> David G. Miller wrote:
>> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> 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?

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