Re: A question for the list...

[Jimi Thompson <jimit () myrealbox com>]

At 5:55 PM -0400 5/20/03, Gary Flynn wrote:
> Kevin Reardon wrote:
>
> > It is an interesting topic.
> >
> > Is this proposal a vaccine, or could it unleash such collateral damage
> > as to make the Internet useless?
> Reminds me of the debate over the swine flu vaccine in the 70's.
>
> Perhaps we need a Center for Disease Control or World Health
> Organization for the Internet with the power to quarantine, mass
> vaccinate, etc.
And who gets to choose who gets on the Internet-version of the WHO? 
Who pays for it?  What if I'm Chinese and everyone on there is from 
the USA?  I might not want a bunch of foreign nationals telling me I 
have to install software "or else".  What if I'm the USA and everyone 
on there is from Iran, Sudan, Syria, and Libya?   I might not want 
the software they are offering either.  You set us on a slippery 
slope.

That's like saying euthanasia is ok.  The next thing becomes who gets 
to decide who gets "put down".

I personally favor litigation.  If your server attacks mine, I get to 
sue you.  If you dog attacked me, I'd get to sue you.  If an employee 
of a company attacks me physically, I sue the company.  If a server 
at a company attacks my network, I should get to sue that company. 
The company, in turn, can sue the IT professional for incompetence if 
they can be shown to meet the legal definition of negligent.
--
Thanks,

Ms. Jimi Thompson, CISSP, Rev.

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being 
governed by those who are dumber." --Plato




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