Re: Solution for botnets

From: Richard L. Hamilton (Richard.L.Hamilton_at_mindwarp.smart.net)
Date: 08/15/03 

Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:26:29 -0000

In article <3939595a.0308130810.26fc31d2@posting.google.com>,
        erik@zoneedit.com (Erik Aronesty) writes:
>> As others have pointed out, who is to judge what is good for others?
>
> And who are you to judge that a patch worm is wrong? The patch is a
> patch, it is not a judgement.

It is a judgement whether (and when) to apply it. You don't have the
right to take that judgement away from those whose property is involved or
who are already authorized to make that decision. That's it, pure and
simple. The technical merits of a race between "good" and "bad" viruses
don't have anything to do with that, and don't matter compared to the
infringement of the rights of others to control (or not) their own
property and to make their own decisions and benefit from or suffer the
consequences. Even if your choices were theoretically perfect in all
possible situations (an assumption that in itself smacks of literally
blasphemous egotism, and even beyond, since the deity (if he/she/it/they
exist) has apparently not descended to such tactics, but rather apparently
thinks that the right to free will, even the right to be wrong, must be
worth something, or else this entire discussion is quite meaningless), you
wouldn't have the right to pre-empt the choices that are legitimately the
rights of others. 

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