[86014] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Freminlins)
Thu Oct 20 16:34:24 2005
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:32:44 +0100
From: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <06C8B597EA0BEC6C63DA05F4@imac-en0.delong.sj.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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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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<p>Owen DeLong wrote:</p>
<p>> If companies that made<br>> vulnerable OSs were held liable for =
the damage caused<br>> by those vulnerabilities, you would rapidly see $=
$<br>> make a BIG difference in the security quality of<br>> OS Softw=
are.
</p>
<p>How would that work for free/open source OSs/software? Who exa=
ctly would be held liable? The contributors? Free OSs are just as capable o=
f sending out malware/virus infected emails, etc. as commercial systems.<br=
> <br>
> Owen</p>
<p>Frem.</p>
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