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[Clips] Bruce Schneier talks cyber law
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R.A. Hettinga)
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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/19/schneier_talks_law/
Bruce Schneier talks cyber law
By John Oates in Vienna (john.oates at theregister.co.uk)
Published Wednesday 19th October 2005 10:01 GMT
RSA Europe 2005 ISPs must be made liable for viruses and other bad network
traffic, Bruce Schneier, security guru and founder and CTO of Counterpane
Internet Security, told The Register yesterday.
He said: "It's about externalities - like a chemical company polluting a
river - they don't live downstream and they don't care what happens. You
need regulation to make it bad business for them not to care. You need to
raise the cost of doing it wrong." Schneier said there was a parallel with
the success of the environmental movement - protests and court cases made
it too expensive to keep polluting and made it better business to be
greener.
Schneier said ISPs should offer consumers "clean pipe" services: "Corporate
ISPs do it, why don't they offer it to my Mum? We'd all be safer and it's
in our interests to pay.
"This will happen, there's no other possibility."
He said there was no reason why legislators do such a bad job of drafting
technology laws. Schneier said short-sighted lobbyists were partly to
blame. He said much cyber crime legislation was unnecessary because it
should be covered by existing laws - "theft is theft and trespass is still
trespass".
But Schneier conceded that getting international agreements in place would
be very difficult and that we remain at risk from the country with the
weakest laws - in the same way we remain at risk from the least
well-protected computer on the network.
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