On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 15:23, John Nemeth wrote: > The flip side to this is that the day when people are held > responsible for not securing their servers and allowing them to be used > to attack others is probably not very far off. I can see this be > similar to "attractive nuisance" laws.
I always wonder what things would be like today if the blame for the original 1987 internet worm had been placed on the vendor who sold the vulnerable software instead of pretending that everyone on the network could be expected to be honest and friendly. It might have been painful for a short time as the problems were cleaned up, but then another vendor would not have been able to flood the world with software with no consideration about security at all. In any case it shouldn't be left as a problem for the end user to fix their software distribution. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
