[plug] Re: Doing Jeremy's work for him

[Craig Foster]

Isn't this a bad example? I though that virii infection was a criminal act
that nobody could enforce properly... Then again in this light, B could
let one virus through and claim IT negligence. The caveat being, of
course, proving a direct duty of care - which could introduce a few
H-bombs into the Windows world :P

Anyone up for it? :)

PS Note to self - learn to make sarcasm more noticable...

I'd say form a class action suing for refunds on unsolicited bandwidth
usage, again proof might be difficult.

Then again I'MANAL^w INAL

Craig F.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon at brooks.fdns.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:47 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Re: Doing Jeremy's work for him

<snip>

> Let's turn up the contrast on this picture.
>
> The Code Octarine worm is released, which resurfaces any
> Windows box it
> touches with sapient pearwood and causes it to grow legs.
> People dread seeing
> the Brown Screen Of Death, especially when it has shark
> teeth embedded in it
> here and there.
>
> Soon B discovers that A's users and servers are infected
> with Code Octarine. B
> knows that there is no patch. B blocks traffic from A, buys
> shares in
> ChiliSoft, starts replacing all of his Windows boxes with a
> real OS, and
> tells A that the block comes off when no more Code Octarine
> wormsign is seen
> from A's subnets for a week.
>
> A sues B. With reasonable legal cause?
>
> Cheers, Leon
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