[97474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Fri Jun 15 19:08:52 2007
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:06:46 GMT
To: heldal@eml.cc
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Per Heldal <heldal@eml.cc> wrote:
>Regulation targeting software-vendors and service-providers has little
>effect as it is an attempt to disrupt the money-flow somewhere in the
>middle. It's usually more efficient to "attack" the source. I.e.
>authorities must hold computer users responsible and make them pay ever=
y
>penny (or millions;) it costs to investigate and clean up their mess.
>Mainstream OS'es as we know them would have been unsellable in today's
>market if users, ever since the internet was commercialised, had been
>held responsible. =
>
When the banks & merchants get sick & tired of underwriting the
fraud investigation and coverage liabilities, I think we will
begin to see more of an effort to put more of the liability in the
user's lap.
In fact, I think we are already starting to see some movement
in the fringes regarding this.
The only thing I can say about this is: be careful what you ask for.
The issues that might result as fall-out might be uglier than what
we have now. :-/
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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