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Re: Homeland Security Official Suggests Outlawing Rootkits
From: Mike Johnson <mike () enoch org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:28:29 -0500
Fergie wrote:
Via C|Net News. [snip] Perhaps the best way to deal with rootkits is to outlaw them.
Eh, they'll blow it on this one if they do pass it. What will happen is they'll pass the legislation (not likely) only to find that the net is too wide (host based IDS/IPS anyone? would a kernel debugger be a rootkit?) and that the cure is worse than the illness. All the malicious rootkits out there will continue and the Sonys and BMGs of the world will simply find another way to surreptitiously install software onto their customer's computers.
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