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Story: Peer loses cybercrime fight

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Posted by: malcolm sargeant (Sunday 16 July 2006, 12:20 PM)

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Since the target for most phishing attacks and trojan distribution is either outlook or internet explorer would not Microsoft be instantly criminalised on enactment of this part of the proposed new law.

for outlook read all other producers of e-mail clients, for explorer read all other producers of net clients.

If you think about it ALL the IT industry will be co-defendants

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