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Story: Is Sony BMG spreading malware?

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Sure, update the CMA. And before you know it someone goes to jail because his malfunctioning network card caused something a laywer might explain as a DDoS attack on some ISP router or whatever else that can go wrong in this free-from-liability IT world.

How about updating the CMA so that companies can no longer hide their underfunded and poor security (partially subset of availability) company policies behind laws written by the technical clueless of real-life problems?

Security 101: "anything not explicitly allowed is explicitly forbidden".

Is it allowed to flood the company mail server? No? Then put some technology to use and make it impossible to flood the mail server because that's more likely to happen then a fire breaking out and since you do have a fire insurance why don't you have a mail flood insurance? If your mail server isn't protected against mail floods then either you're missing something, you made the wrong choice or YOU are taking risks.

Is it allowed to flood the company Internet router? No? Can it be expected? Yes. Could it happen by criminal intent? Yes. Could it happen by some failure somewhere? Yes. Then what's keeping you from preventing it becoming a (big) problem once it happens in the first place?

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