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Story: Trojans from China attacking UK

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INTERNET RECOGNISES NO TERRITORY

It is premature to impute the criminal activity and intent to any particular country or region. It is commonly understood that the method of “botnets” or “zombie computers” is generally used for various wrongful purposes. The question of liability of a person, organisation or country in such a case does not arise at all because it is almost impossible to prevent a computer from being converted into a zombie. The operating systems have many loopholes and security breaches and recently the hackers have developed the mechanism of exploiting the weaknesses of “anti virus software’s” themselves. If this is the position, then imputing any sort of liability to computers used as botnets is not only unreasonable but also in ignorance of the crude reality of cyberspace. The ultimate solution is to “harmonise” the laws of all the countries by making a compatible and commonly acceptable international treaty safeguarding the cyberspace. It is not a mature action to impute the liability to a particular person, organisation, computer, region, locality or country.

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