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Re: Even you can be hacked
From: <dunger-nanog1087 () mailblocks com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:17:51 -0700
I completely agree that the customers in these cases should be held responsible for the services they purchased from their ISPs.
Let's all try to keep in mind that the two customers mentioned in the article as being on the receiving end of large bills were businesses, not consumers.
In the course of running his "small high-tech company," Mr. Liber could have hired a part-time IT guy to watch over his systems and keep them patched and healthy. Doing so could have cost him less than the $85,000 his ISP billed him for. He also could have procured liability insurance for his business. Perhaps he also could have bought a firewall, or a better one.
Any of these options would have cost Mr. Liber's business some money. He appears to have chosen instead to accept higher business risk in exchange for a higher potential profit margin. And, when the bills arrived, he could have chosen to pay them. Instead, he chose to file for bankruptcy. Each step of the way, he had options, and he made his choices as he saw fit.
Was this truly negligence, or a calculated business risk? -DaveU
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- Re: Even you can be hacked Owen DeLong (Jun 10)
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- Re: Even you can be hacked James Reid (Jun 11)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Owen DeLong (Jun 11)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Stephen Sprunk (Jun 11)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Owen DeLong (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked McBurnett, Jim (Jun 10)
- Re: Even you can be hacked dunger-nanog1087 (Jun 10)
- RE: Even you can be hacked David Schwartz (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Adi Linden (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- Re: Even you can be hacked Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Alex Bligh (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Henry Linneweh (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Randy Bush (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked Adi Linden (Jun 11)
- RE: Even you can be hacked David Schwartz (Jun 11)
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