^wrongdoing^evildoing and you could use this to justify another Bush war :-)
G On or about 2004.05.14 17:27:48 +0000, Radule Soskic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I can't post this to all the threads that I would like to, so I'm > opening a new one. > > Follow this: > > 1. MS is wrongdoing by releasing (and charging for use of) software that > has bugs in it. Users of such software have losses in time/money by > trying to keep up with applying pathches, or just by trying to keep the > uptime high. > > 2. Admins are wrongdoing by not applying patches to the systems they > maintain. There are losses tied to such misspractice, too. > > 3. Worm authors are wrongdoing by writing software that propagate > through the networks by exploiting all of the above. Again, the losses > occur in time/money spent to remove the worms from the systems affected. > > It is obvious that almost every legal system in the world treats #3 as > crime, while #2 and #1 are broadly tolerated. Noone here is against the > book of law, but it just seems to be in contrast to the natural and > intuitive feeling of justice that majority of people might have > regarding the issues like these. See - only one of the three wrongdoers > is being punished. > > Is it right? Or - is it wrong? > > BTW, I have a funny feeling that damages/losses caused by #3 might very > often be far less than the ones caused by #2 and #1. > > Am I alone? > > cikasole > > > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html -- Gregory A. Gilliss, CISSP E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Security WWW: http://www.gilliss.com/greg/ PGP Key fingerprint 2F 0B 70 AE 5F 8E 71 7A 2D 86 52 BA B7 83 D9 B4 14 0E 8C A3 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html