On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 02:31:18PM -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
So a HS kid, living with his parents, is able to write a worm that takes out millions and millions of computers throughout the world running the latest MS OS. Uh....shouldn't we arrest Bill Gates first?
The decision is rational, because people are irrational, ignorant, and hence populistic gestures have a large payoff (and some deterrence to boot). Establishing liability for generic software is unprecedented, will take huge resources, time, and has low probability to succeed. So let's lock up the kid, and his buds. The professionals will thank you, too, for it keeps them out of the limelight due to the distraction, and increases the vulnerability exploitability shelf life. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]