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----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "Henry Linneweh" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:59 Subject: Re: Possibly yet another MS mail worm On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 10:35:05 PST, Henry Linneweh <[email protected]> said: >> >> Everyday there is a new, news article on this and every day everyone >> panics and eeryday some one says tell the government to make a law, it is time >> to realize that no law is going to do anything for anyone soon. In the past we >>just took care of the problem and we can do the same now by sharing the solutions we >>shared then for FREE. >The basic problem is that for the average ISP, requiring the users to have a >clue and to use secure software is financial suicide. <insert obligatory Randy >Bush reference here>. Until something happens to change the cost/benefit >ratios, we're stuck with it. Remember that vendor lock-in is an issue - why >should the user spend all the time/money of obtaining new software and learning >how to use it if they're currently not experiencing high amounts of cost/pain? >Many users will write off "I'm only losing 2 or 3 days of work a year due to >virus/worms" and balance that against "Moving to <anything else> would screw >things up for 2 weeks while I relearn and reconfigure", and decide it's not >worth changing... I am kind of torn between new legislation to force users to clean up their machines when infected vs letting things go becuase I don't like government intervention, in general. I guess if society deems it a big enough problem, they'll push for legislation. Right now, folks don't seem to mind absorbing the cost of these worms. Till this changes, I don't think anything will get done, either on the technical or legal side.
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