-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Per Heldal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Regulation targeting software-vendors and service-providers has little >effect as it is an attempt to disrupt the money-flow somewhere in the >middle. It's usually more efficient to "attack" the source. I.e. >authorities must hold computer users responsible and make them pay every >penny (or millions;) it costs to investigate and clean up their mess. >Mainstream OS'es as we know them would have been unsellable in today's >market if users, ever since the internet was commercialised, had been >held responsible. > When the banks & merchants get sick & tired of underwriting the fraud investigation and coverage liabilities, I think we will begin to see more of an effort to put more of the liability in the user's lap. In fact, I think we are already starting to see some movement in the fringes regarding this. The only thing I can say about this is: be careful what you ask for. The issues that might result as fall-out might be uglier than what we have now. :-/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.1 (Build 1012) wj8DBQFGcxuCq1pz9mNUZTMRAqmVAJwPwjgyLxKzlNqwbRZgXUk2uD4aywCdH+CQ MQJd8B/HGuhDFhCSN4K0K0M= =3NdK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
