[126988] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 9 12:04:12 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <201006091402.o59E2rRJ022196@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:01:18 -0700
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>
>> 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.
Owen
