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From: nekramer at mindtheater.net (Nancy Kramer)
Subject: New therad: sasser, costs, support etc
  alltogether

You are right!

Regards,

Nancy Kramer
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At 02:50 PM 5/15/2004, Georgi Guninski wrote:
>quite agree.
>if i remember correctly, the americans say:
>"one billg, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all".
>
>--
>When I answered where I wanted to go today, they just hung up -- Unknown
>
>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 05:27:48PM +0200, Radule Soskic wrote:
> > I can't post this to all the threads that I would like to, so I'm
> > opening a new one.
> >
> > Follow this:
> >
> > 1. MS is wrongdoing by releasing (and charging for use of) software that
> > has bugs in it. Users of such software have losses in time/money by
> > trying to keep up with applying pathches, or just by trying to keep the
> > uptime high.
> >
> > 2. Admins are wrongdoing by not applying patches to the systems they
> > maintain. There are losses tied to such misspractice, too.
> >
> > 3. Worm authors are wrongdoing by writing software that propagate
> > through the networks by exploiting all of the above. Again, the losses
> > occur in time/money spent to remove the worms from the systems affected.
> >
> > It is obvious that almost every legal system in the world treats #3 as
> > crime, while #2 and #1 are broadly tolerated. Noone here is against the
> > book of law, but it just seems to be in contrast to the natural and
> > intuitive feeling of justice that majority of people might have
> > regarding the issues like these. See - only one of the three wrongdoers
> > is being punished.
> >
> > Is it right? Or - is it wrong?
> >
> > BTW, I have a funny feeling that damages/losses caused by #3 might very
> > often be far less than the ones caused by #2 and #1.
> >
> > Am I alone?
> >
> > cikasole
> >
> >
> >
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