This should be another thread completely, but I am wondering about the liability of the individual's who have owned machines that are attacking me/my clients.
As a practical matter, I'd expect it to be difficult to try. Convincing a jury that running a PHP version that's three months out of date constitutes gross negligence because you should have read about the vulnerability on the Web might be... tricky. Especially when you have to explain to the jury what PHP is. Dueling expert witnesses arguing about best practice, poor confused webmaster/Amway distributor looking bewildered at all this technical talk ("I figgered I just buy Plesk and I was good to go. I dunno nothin' about PHP. Isn't that a drug?") Not to mention working out what percentage of the damages you suffered should come from each host. But yeah, I'd like to see it tried. Lawyering up is one of our core competencies here in the USA; maybe we could use it for good instead of evil. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com