What I don't want to see which you are advocating... I don't want to see the end users who do take responsibility, drive well designed vehicles with proper seat belts and safety equipment, stay in their lane, and do not cause accidents held liable for the actions of others. Why should we penalize those that have done no wrong simply because they happen to be a minority?
I agree, on the other hand, what about those people who genuinely didn't do anything wrong, and their computer still got Pwned?
Fiction.
At the very least, if you connected a system to the network and it got Pwned, you were negligent in your behavior, if not malicious. Negligence is still wrong, even if not malice.
So, just so we're clear here, I go to Best Buy, I buy a computer, I bring it home, plug it into my cablemodem, and am instantly Pwned by the non-updated Windows version on the drive plus the incessant cable modem scanning, resulting in a bot infection... therefore I am negligent? Do you actually think a judge would find that negligent, or is this just your own personal definition of negligence? Because I doubt that a judge, or even an ordinary person, could possibly consider it such. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.