Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls?

[Gadi Evron <ge () egotistical reprehensible net>]

> By that particular accounting, we should have you and all of your family
> put down, because people in your town have committed crimes!

I apologize for the multiple email messages, but a better analogy just 
scoured to me that may get my point across:

If you own a gun and it was stolen. Then, somebody used your gun to 
murder someone. Are you responsible for the murder? No.

Can you be held partially responsible because your gun was used, and you 
didn't guard it well enough? Absolutely yes.

This is once again an exaggeration, I don't believe users should be held 
accountable if they were hacked (i.e. the "Trojan horse defense"). But 
if they were, they would perhaps keep their machines secure much like 
they (should) keep their cars fit for driving.

This is all on the philosophical level/plain, you shouldn't kill a guy 
when he talks in the philosophical level/plain. :o)

        Gadi Evron.


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