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Aussies: Get a virus, no Web for you!
06/28/2010
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Christopher Null - June 22, 2010 - 5:51 pm ET
How do you deal with an epidemic like the spread of computer malware? Australia thinks it has the answer: Blame the victim.
I'm not entirely joking: A new plan floated by the country's House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications suggests that Australia should allow ISPs to mandate anti-virus and firewall protection among their customers. If a customer does get a malware infection, the ISP would be allowed to cut off that customer's connection until the problem was fixed.
The committee spent 260 pages devising 34 recommendations on cybercrime, which it said was a $649 million problem in Australia each year. Those recommendations include creating a 24-hour "cybercrime helpline," making the "unauthorized installation of software" illegal, and, most interestingly, allowing consumers to sue companies who release software and hardware with security flaws. Jeez, Microsoft may have to pull out of Australia altogether!
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