Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

[Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>]

On 6/9/2010 12:17, Joe Greco wrote:
> > > > What I don't want to see which you are advocating... I don't want to see
> > > > the end users who do take responsibility, drive well designed vehicles
> > > > with proper seat belts and safety equipment, stay in their lane, and
> > > > do not cause accidents held liable for the actions of others. Why should
> > > > we penalize those that have done no wrong simply because they happen
> > > > to be a minority?
> > >
> > > I agree, on the other hand, what about those people who genuinely didn't
> > > do anything wrong, and their computer still got Pwned?
> >
> > Fiction.
> >
> > At the very least, if you connected a system to the network and it got Pwned,
> > you were negligent in your behavior, if not malicious. Negligence is still
> > wrong, even if not malice.
>
> So, just so we're clear here, I go to Best Buy, I buy a computer, I 
> bring it home, plug it into my cablemodem, and am instantly Pwned by
> the non-updated Windows version on the drive plus the incessant cable
> modem scanning, resulting in a bot infection...  therefore I am 
> negligent?
>
> Do you actually think a judge would find that negligent, or is this
> just your own personal definition of negligence?  Because I doubt that
> a judge, or even an ordinary person, could possibly consider it such.

One can argue (and I will) that there is indeed some culpability because
the buyer bought the cheapest version of everything and connected it to
a negligent provider's system.


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