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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.

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