[wplug] Be afraid ... interesting research on botnets

[Chris Ott]

Chris Ott wrote:
> 
> John Harrold wrote:
> 
>> I think individidual users sued for negligence might make people consider
>> being members of a global network more responsibly.
> 
> I think people should be fined for each machine they infect and spam 
> they send out. Once they need to cough up a few times, they'll get a 
> little more serious about keeping their machines secure.

Sorry to respond to myself, but it just occurred to me: what if we give 
the fines to the people who tracked the violators down and collected the 
evidence against them? You might be able to make a living running a few 
honeypots and I'll bet you'd clean up the 'Net *real* fast.

> Who knows - maybe more of them will finally get frustrated with Windows 
> and make the switch. :-)

Worth repeating.

Chris