Are ISP's responsible for worms and viruses

Thu Oct 20 20:32:44 UTC 2005

Owen DeLong wrote:

> If companies that made
> vulnerable OSs were held liable for the damage caused
> by those vulnerabilities, you would rapidly see $$
> make a BIG difference in the security quality of
> OS Software.

How would that work for free/open source OSs/software? Who exactly would be
held liable? The contributors? Free OSs are just as capable of sending out
malware/virus infected emails, etc. as commercial systems.

> Owen

Frem.
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