hello;
sacking the end-user and then sueing them is not the answer.
the person who wanted/desired/demanded the use of
an insecure desktop operating system should be the one getting
sacked. that person should also be sacked for wasting of
corporate/government/etc funds to protect said operating system.
On Thu, 10 May 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:
david>
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david>
david> Wheee, aren't we off-topic? :)
david>
david> I favour a different approach.
david>
david> For this virus to infect your company network requires that one of your
david> employees is silly enough to blindly double-click on the pretty picture
david> associated with the file they've just received from somewhere outside the
david> company.
david>
david> That action is the result of either negligence,
david> malice or ignorance on the part of the offending
david> user. As the dangerous nature of this kind of thing is
david> public knowledge, since the Melissa virus, the
david> ignorance excuse can be summarily dismissed, and
david> we're left with only offences for which that user
david> can be dismissed from their employment and sued for damages.
david>
david> So sack them. And sue them. And _then_ maybe the
david> others will get the message.
david>
david> As far as I'm concerned, the same goes for users
david> accepting Word documents from across security boundaries.
david>
david> cf. http://www.infradead.org/fileexchange.html
david>
david> I should probably add a note to that explaining the potential danger of
david> HTML when combined with a too-trusting HTML viewer.
david>
david> --
david> dwmw2
david>
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