[126956] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Wed Jun 9 08:48:49 2010
In-Reply-To: <BFCDADA3-4404-4D33-8089-0AD187BB77D6@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:46:14 -0500
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I'm not opposed to making operating systems and applications safer.
> As I said, just as with cars, the manufacturers should be held liable
> by the consumers. =A0However, the consumer that is operating the
> car that plows a group of pedestrians is liable to the pedestrians.
> The manufacturer is usually liable to the operator through subrogation.
That's why at least in the US by *regulation* you must have insurance
to be able to operate a car, instead of mitigating the safety issues
that represents a teenager texting while driving we deal with the
consequences.
Perhaps we have to call the insurance industry to come up with something.
Cheers
Jorge
