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Re: Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses
From: Freminlins <freminlins () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:32:44 +0100
Owen DeLong wrote:
If companies that made vulnerable OSs were held liable for the damage caused by those vulnerabilities, you would rapidly see $$ make a BIG difference in the security quality of OS Software.
How would that work for free/open source OSs/software? Who exactly would be held liable? The contributors? Free OSs are just as capable of sending out malware/virus infected emails, etc. as commercial systems.
Owen
Frem.
Current thread:
- Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses J. Oquendo (Oct 20)
- Re: Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses Michael . Dillon (Oct 20)
- Re: Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses J.D. Falk (Oct 20)
- Re: Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses Owen DeLong (Oct 20)
- Re: Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses Freminlins (Oct 20)
- Re: Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses Owen DeLong (Oct 20)
- Re: Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses Michael . Dillon (Oct 20)